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Show HN: A tool to earn money by deep linking to GitHub Repos

by justkd on 12/18/18, 11:24 AM with 10 comments

• by mdaniel on 12/19/18, 7:56 AM

  I know "everyone's a critic," but that page is more "swooshy" and chaotic than necessary. Made worse by the fact that I had to look at the page source to find out where the bookmarklet lived, which seemed to be pretty central to the success of new users.

  It would also be super helpful if you gave examples of what kind of content you were looking for. There are quite a few things that I would, and have for my own purposes, bookmark because I refer to them often. However, I can't say whether some of them are "best practice source code" or not.

  Is the audience folks who are learning to program and want to see examples? Or folks trying to configure projects and want to see good build files? Or defensive programming? Or good error messages?

• by justkd on 12/18/18, 11:26 AM

  Hi HN, Karan here. Tobi and I built this experiment to see if people are interested in deep linking into GitHub Repos. We also plan to compensate users. Once we have enough paying users we will share the richness with our users. But we are just starting yet and have no paying users. We hope to get some feedback by HN on this idea. Does this makes sense? Thanks in advance!

• by webmaven on 12/19/18, 4:06 PM

  I suggest you slow down the animation in the hero section, a LOT.