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RiderOfGiraffes

For previous answers to this question see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123371

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224473

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124856

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460677

Before asking questions you might try searching to see if it's been asked before.

http://searchyc.com/

If you did, say so:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html

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I've been reading HN for several months now, and this is the first time I've seen reference to http://searchyc.com/. It would be more useful if it was featured in the top nav bar (but I understand it's not because perhaps pg didn't write it).

There are several greasemonkey scripts that do just that.

For instance: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

For new users, the greasemonkey scripts suffer the same non-discoverability as searchyc.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I saw it mentioned shortly after I joined 80 days ago. Here is a search for searchyc

http://searchyc.com/searchyc?sort=by_date

There are lots of references, including many that lament that it's hard for newbies to find.

I also noticed, just yesterday, that there is a link to a Firefox plug-in for searching HN. The point is I only noticed it yesterday and I've been on HN over a year - same with searchyc - i didn't really know about it until I got fed up with not being able to searchyc and started googling for it. If people at HN are so bothered by dupe submissions then a search on HN should be run by the system at the point I submit a link. I shouldn't have to think about it otherwise.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123371 sounds like they're more interested in issue tracking software really. I want a time tracking/invoicing solution.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224473 is looking for a project management solution.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460677 is a developer looking for ideas and there's no relevant suggestions there.

Fair point about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124856 I hadn't seen that and there are some good solutions outlined there.

I appreciate that some of the links I posted were not exactly what you were looking for, but I couldn't tell if they would be relevant, so I provided a selection, and a link to the search engine. It wouldn't've been a good use of my time to vet and summarise them.

I hope you get the information you need - it looks like you will.

Thanks. So far so good.

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