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Is that really worth showing to HN? I mean, I dont want to be rude -- your code is ok, no problem here -- but it's not even a library, it is just a widget in 200 LOC, that renders a single table. What's the achievement here?

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Is that comment really worth sharing on HN? I mean, I don't want to be rude - the English is ok, no problem here - but it's not useful at all, it's just complaining about a thing upvoted by 50 people. What's the purpose here?

I can tell from your own previous submissions that you are somehow affiliated with "belka.us", same company that open-sourced this calendar widget, so I am sure you were first here to upvote, and I understand why you are being so passive-aggresive now. But I really do not want HN to be a platform for such kind of self-promotion.

It's a "Show HN" article. From the "Show HN" rules:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

There is nothing even remotely inappropriate being done here, except for your comment, which violates the self-same rules:

> Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

So when you'll find yourself looking at front page full of "woo look at my helloworld app btw here's our website"-like posts, would you still think the same? Every tolerance should have its limits.

Unlikely, but considering we have a Show HN section that is specifically intended for that, which garners its own interest, and competes against the other, non-Show articles for front page space, if the front page were filled with Show HN content, it would either be due to a slow news day, or because people were cranking out worthwhile-enough apps to merit front page supremacy.

Either way, your parade of horribles is unlikely to occur, or be that horrible if it were. To each their own though.

Yeah, we are belka.us and we are not ashamed of doing self-promotion here.

I don't see what's wrong here: every company in the IT world releases open source components: Django, Bootstrap, Foundation and React itself are open source projects backed by companies. But there's also smaller things being released every day, and each of them contributes to the great world of open source.

We use open source, we give back to the open source community. We are giving away our time for free releasing a component, I don't see anything bad adding a small link to our website.

You're doing fine; thanks for sharing!

Such kind of comment is also in very poor taste - it offers very little substance, and mainly aims at going in a roundabout way to belittle the comment it is responding to without offering a concrete solid argument against it.

And that is even without that contextual information that you've noted.

imho, this is worth showing as a piece of design.

Its an innovative calendar layout and while I don't know if I would use it in time / data selection, in terms of visualizing data inside of a year it has a lot of potential.

You definitely won't use this for date selection, but we found it useful to layout the whole year and to review it at a glance.

Thanks for your kind words anyway! :)

I liked the layout. The main take away for me was the <today> in Red. It may be a trivial feature,but with so many widgets pounding my eye, it was nice to zoom in to todays date. I can see master planners (in inventory world) sticking with this layout, though I am sure you guys must have already done your market research.

No market research here, TBH! It is a component extracted from a project we did with our agency Belka, but we'd love if people start using it in other projects!

Yeah, that's a component, no more, no less.

I just wanted to share this, I think some people disagree with you if I am in homepage right now

Says the guy with 0 submissions and a handful of comments in a 2.5 year old HN account...

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