An incomplete list of HN collaborative Google Docs/Spreadsheets

Clickable links

* The Web Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDE...

* HN Contractors spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iE...

* HN Co-founder wishlist spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

* Startup Ideas spreadsheet (now read-only, was writable by all HN pretty sure): https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_GB...

* HN internships and interns: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xM...

* The SAAS Model Spreadsheet (not crowdsourced/writable, but was very popular): https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CN_...

* The complete list of TED talks by date (not crowdsourced/writable, but still very useful): https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bY...

Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/l#!threadID=GTRKru1BUmU0%2F...

If you 'follow' a bookmarks list, and you're logged in to Google search, and you include relevant terms, I believe Google will suggest bookmarks at the top of the SERP. Handier than a spreadsheet of spreadsheets.

Thanks, this is quite nice.

Perhaps its just me, but Google Docs tells me that I don't have sufficient permission to access the Web Design doc.

Nope, same issue here too.

Same for me, how can I see the document? I asked for access several times without response

HN Domain Exchange https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

HN Yellowpages https://spreadsheets2.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

Ask HN Who's Hiring https://spreadsheets3.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

HackerNews Applications and Spreadsheets by Steve Morin https://spreadsheets4.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CIe...

Perfect. And ... it seems your last link is the spreadsheet of spreadsheets! Great (and meta-great). :D

Thanks for collecting these all, but I must say, what a shitty and needlessly obtuse way to go about it with all these heavy spreadsheets everywhere. Surely there must be a simpler and better way?

They weren't designed to be in tandem or work together at all, but maybe some enterprising hacker can get their name out there by finding a way to use the Docs API to scrape the data from all these and host it on a pretty ajaxified site (like say, hnsheets.com or something) with a MongoDB backend and all the code on Github?

Or maybe just put it up on a wiki somewhere. Are there any other better solutions than these slow-crawling and large spreadsheets on Google Docs that anyone else can offer?

edit: how about metahn.com with subdirs or subdomains of:

   /directory

for listing of persons and meta info about them, history of work done, availability for contract work, availability for starting a startup, etc

   /jobs

with the different internships and jobs posted every month listed and searchable/ordered by different fields/categories

   /misc

with the other links and/or editable fronts to the data like the listing of TED talks or just links to the other static documents you mentioned.

There's already a few spread out hn-related sites like hndir.com[1] for students and hnofficehours.com[2] for general help and consultation between HN'ers but maybe there's room for one more.

[1] http://www.hndir.com/

[2] http://hnofficehours.com/

I agree that spreadsheets are not optimal for reading tons of info, but I think they are easier than wikis for writing most stuff: Concurrent live editing w/out fear, no manual markup formatting, no Edit button, no Submit step... I think that was one of the points of the other thread (about the overnight book): that Google Docs and Spreadsheets are enabling some collaborative works that would have otherwise been more painful to create.

That said, Google supports lots of input + output formats. I hope you're right and somebody is hacking some cool stuff together.

edit: your proposed structure sounds really cool to me.

Here is one that I put together a while ago: Do you want to be a mentor/adviser to a startup?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmPJqmi...

FYI, Hackers & Founders Silicon Valley is shortly going to be incorporated as a for benefit corporation (LLC + B Corp cert) to support the early stage startup scene in SV. Also 106 Miles is incorporating as a non profit with a mission of educating entrepreneurial engineers.

One of the reasons that we are incorporating at H&F is to be able to maintain a central repo of this type of information. We need the "Moving to SV or NYC or London" wikis. There's a ton of great blog posts on different topics, but it would be really nice to have a centralized place to keep track of all of that.

Soon...