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Show HN: FullStack360 – Dribbble for Software Developers

7 pointsreddog928710 comments

http://www.fullstack360.com I am working on this site. The idea behind the FullStack360 is to be a sort of Dribbble for software developers where coders and programmers can post projects that they are working on. Other products like LinkedIn don't offer an adequate place for devs to post their projects and get attention from recruiters and other non-tech people.

Also, I am having a meetup with my friend at the Hive55 coworking space on April 2nd from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. We will showcase two or three projects selected from this site. If you are in the NYC area and would like to present your project to my meetup group (http://www.meetup.com/Full-Stack-iOS-Development-Group), submit your project to this site and I will contact you directly. I plan on doing these meetups 2x a month or so. Thanks.

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The beauty of Dribbble (in my opinion) and the reason it works well is because designers don't show off entire projects - it's a just little bit of what they're working on that's delightful to see and quite inspiring.

The same could work for software on the front-end certainly (sort of like codepen.io or jsfiddle), but I'm less sure it'd work for the code behind entire projects - there's not much 'quick hit' inspiration looking through a repo.

The font is so light against the background and incredibly thin. What is this fixation with having light, thin fonts? They looks horrible! I always have to battle my designer brother about this. :P

http://i.imgur.com/8hCh31J.png

I think it's just a matter of taste. To say they look "horrible" is a stretch isn't it? I mean, you are the only person who brought up and I showed it to somewhere around 50 people - most of whom are strangers with no concern for my feelings.

I'm going to agree with him and say ultra thin font weights are ugly (subjective) and hard to read (objective).

They're good for a heading, but as the body font? Crazy talk.

ok, I guess that makes two people now. So what's a better color in the context of fullstack360.com? Maroon? Navy Blue?

  body { font-weight: 500; }

http://www.fullstack360.com/

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I don't understand what "Top posts" are in relation to your goals - they just seem to be rather random links to other web URLs.

The top posts are just interesting news stories skimmed from HN. Full disclosure: I worked on the site with reddog9287.

Okay, I see that now. I don't understand the inclusion of it though - the main thing that will happen by including a list of "interesting news stories" would be that the user leaves your site quicker b/c they found something interesting. It's an odd choice IMO - if someone wants "news" links, they already know where to go find those, no? By putting it prominently on your home page, you've decreased your focus as a "Dribbble for software devs" and made it "The left side of our page is Dribbbble-like, and the right-side is where you can find some cool links." Which is fine - just understand that you are diminishing your brand/impact when you do that.

Github?

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