Hi HN, I'm seeing more and more people sharing software specs instead of code, and I think this will become increasingly common as coding agents get better at one-shotting entire apps from a single prompt.So I put together Promptuaria over a few days. It's a small platform where you can publish, version, and fork software specs, and link GitHub implementations to the exact spec versions they...
Discord is good for realtime chat, Discourse and Zulip are better for things that should be preserved, but I kept wanting one place that did both and was actually tied to the project itself.
So on Earde you connect a public GitHub repo and get:
-live chat -a public forum indexed by search engines -turning useful chat conversations into permanent forum threads -connections between related project communities, so the same discussion can be shared between them in one click -usable directly in the browser -one feed for all the project communities you follow
I know you can approximate most of these things by combining existing tools, the experiment here is whether they make more sense as one thing, specifically for OSS projects.
It's still very early, so I'm interested in what feels wrong or missing, especially from maintainers who already have a Discord/Zulip/Discourse/etc. for their project.
You can browse the app without creating an account here: https://www.earde.com/feed And here's a demo of a public technical thread shared between communities: https://www.earde.com/c/northstar/t/116-client-enters-a-reco...
Hi HN, we’re Damiano and Nico and we are building Earde.Earde is a Discord alternative built specifically for open source projects. A maintainer connects a public GitHub repository and gets a verified community for it, with live text chat and a structured public forum indexed on the open web. Doing a soft launch today, mostly because we want to understand more about the problem we’re trying to...
I’m trying to understand whether this is just an abstract annoyance or whether there are actual communities looking for a better platform.
I’m part of a small technical community around type theory, and I keep running into a community-platform problem: Reddit and Discord are not really the right places to run communities like this.Discord is good for quick conversation, but bad as the long-term home of a technical community. That is because technical discussions are not indexed by search engines and useful answers disappear into...
I’ve always been passionate about it, so I would like to get a decent minimal knowledge on astrophysics, maybe to get into (amatorial) computational astrophysics.
I've always been wanting to get into space observation, what telescopes and books would you suggest for an absolute beginner?