Show HN: Hacker Dig – Digging Ideas from Hacker News

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62 points·giekaton··13 comments

Is it really really necessary to have that captcha?? Lending brain power to the worlds biggest advertising and spy operation is a turn off. Besides it sucks to sit there and click endless images of traffic lights, cars, busses and store fronts...

Sorry about that, but I need to protect mail server.

Captcha doesn't send ideas data to google as the ideas are not part of the submit form.

But totally agree with you.

Todo: change captcha to a local php solution.

To help me get started, I wouldn't mind seeing an example of what the start of an idea-mining session looks like with this interface. I've never done anything like this so I could use some inspiration for how to use such a tool.

The inspiration is on the left side. It can be a title or something in the summary or comments. When something sparks an idea, click to create a new note about it.

I don't know what "dig" means in the context of this app and therefore I don't understand the purpose of the app.

Dig is like in "idea digging" or "vinyl crate digging".

Nice! Kudos for also making it open source. Direct link: https://github.com/giekaton/hacker-dig

Who adds the summaries?

Asking since the first one I looked at was just weird, something about core dump percentages or...dunno?

Summaries are extracted with Aylien API, free plan. Sometimes they can be a bit random or missing.

this is great and open source, what is the idea behind it?

Hi, click on "More details..." link to learn more about Hacker Dig.

Also try clicking on the eye icon and comments to show/hide summaries and comments.

great work, and a nice PWA example. Thanks for sharing!

Simply, Great!!

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