rustyhacker

Personally, I went through a similar scenario wanting little small scripts, feature requests or tutorials without having to fund the whole thing myself.

What I thought was that those request/tutorials could potentially be popular and others might be willing to even pay a little bit for it and once the sum is enough, someone would do it and get that pot of money.

For this reason, I made this little site and put some of my "nice to have" needs on there, but unfortunately, not many people go to the site.

Don't really want to promote it, but you could check it out here https://hackermake.com/

I'm not entirely convinced that the reason why people aren't using their preferred language is due to the absence of WASM up until now.

Almost all of the popular programming language have a js transpiler allowing programmers to code in their lang and use it on web.

I think the reasons why programmers aren't using their preference when coding for web is, firstly because of the lack industry approval/support and secondly the speed of development. As much I complain about writing js code, it's a lot faster to get things done compared to Rust/C++.

This is interesting, but I'm a bit confused as who the target audience is, general public or famous celebs.

In terms of general public use, usually we cannot afford to discourage people from sending us emails. Automated emails are also caught by spam detectors.

In terms of VCs, if they charge money, it would feel like an admission process and I'd prefer it to be a more formal process rather than an email which they might or might not read/reply to. Same applies to lawyers. Also usually cold emails would be read by assistants/receptionists, so not sure if this model would fit them.

In case of famous celebs, it could be a great way to raise money for great causes while managing your fans.

Personally I'd rather it somehow address my issue of handling emails coming into my inbox. But that's in a different nature, usually emails I get aren't spams and they are real emails which I need to actually respond to, but the priority is not clear.

I can see where you are coming from. There are times when I think of a useful tool or service but just don't have the time or funds to do it. In some of those cases I feel like that I cannot be the only one who will find that (non-existing) useful.

I suppose that's the motivation behind hackermake.com, somewhere that people could show their ideas and the end result would be available to everyone. But such things requires a vibrant community behind them and building/attracting such community is quite difficult.

Would be very interested in hearing your thought on such approaches.

My personal view on this matter is that people in our industry believe high quality code means it's easy to read/understand. So assuming that the code is of good quality, the IDEs refactoring tools should suffice for navigating and understanding the code.

Now I admit for large projects (~ >50k loc), visualisation could prove to be very useful for architects or new people joining the room. But most visualisations tools are very text oriented, because of the underlying language itself. So what you end up with is the name of the class/package/variable in a rectangle with lines drawn to another class. From where I stand, that's very easy for me to either quickly draw on paper or imagine it in my head. So the tools I've come across don't add much value.

Another point which is only speculation is that a number of users are not visual, and have a different way of processing data. They'd rather read/hear about the details and numbers to "understand" what is happening, rather than visualise them.