Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates
boilermate.site
While looking for some code boilerplates i realised there isn't really an easy / efficient place to browse. Boilermate.site was made for the community to share them and give a vote!
boilermate.site
It's a good idea and it has promise but need to have a high bar for submissions in order to actually be useful.
It's like if I was looking for some Redux boilerplate and I just get linked to Redux.
It might remove steps to get the boilerplate in front of customers quicker, and iterate quicker than doing things manually.
I like Postgres a lot for many reasons.
Tools like Hasura and Nocodb/supabase/teable have their place though. It can seem a waste of time to build some admin UIs in the beginning but having something like this allows other folks in the business to participate.
Linking me to the bun runtime or the Svelte documentation and saying "here's a boilerplate for you" is not helpful when you're looking for something that you can just run `pnpm i` and start writing business logic, which is what all boilerplates purport to be at the end of the day.
Not to be a dick, but whatever your concept of "boilerplate" is does not match with mine. Boilerplate is not a "stack" or "framework", that's why they have different names. Boilerplate is ten miles of code to setup and initialize something, and which can be reused. Frameworks include boilerplate, but are not themselves boilerplate.
The concept of sharing boilerplate would ideally be a list of gists, maybe a git repo. It's just text.
Also the UI on this site is very much not great. You click the box for the entry you want and it just gets a highlight. You have to hunt for the links within the box, which are all in de-emphasized gray font. This is basically the exact opposite of how you bring a link to the user's attention. You've intentionally hidden the links from the user.
My read is that this is a project from a young hacker who doesn't quite understand what it is they're building or why it's needed.
- title length limit seems too short
- 5 tags seems too limiting--when looking for a specific combination of tags better to list everything
- clicking on a tag takes you directly to the link unexpectedly (even if it's the only one)
- being able to search for multiple (AND) tags is the killer featureI guess if your boilerplate is just building everything yourself... It shows postgres + supabase for it and those are all things you would have to manually bolt on to Sveltekit.
Even if you did resolve the spam problem, allowing anonymous up/down voting is just going to make the "top" boilerplates be about who can click the most, not about quality or fitting different criteria to different use cases.
This is the start of an idea, to be sure... I just don't think it is ready yet.
- Replace the loud icons with just an UP/DOWN arrow for voting.
- Pill Labels/Tags can have a subdued contrast — “24 minutes ago”, “GitHub”, etc. They can be just hyperlinks.
- Instead bring out the contrast in the taglines. I want to read that along with the title.
- The logos of various technology might be enough without their titles, such as “Python”, “NextJs”.
- Please make me scroll the page and not a frame inside a page.
I also tend to make apps that have nested containers scroll with the content. Anything wrong with it in particular?
It sometimes breaks thing like "space" to scroll, depends where focus ends up.
I'll be more attentive to space scroll tho.
Thanks for the comment.
Contents inside a frame is OK but make it apparent, say, have a thin border, with a lightly different backgound and have the scrollbar forced if the content is larger than the defined height of the frame.
Also the website overflows on mobile.