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The "+" icon in the upper left corner throws an error when you are not logged in:

  {"success":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"You are not logged in."}}

For some reason I doubt this is by design.

Also, when you upload a pic for the "screenshot", there is no confirmation after the progress bar disappears. No thumbnail, no "Ok, pic uploaded!". Nothing.

Another note: no place to put hyperlinks when you create a post?!

And I cannot edit my post afterword (to add a hyperlink in the description).

Noted. Thank you!

Nice but the infinite scroll is unbearable. You have some badness going on there. It completely blocks the UI and it crashes Chrome if the dev tools are open. Good luck.

Thanks! I'm working on fixing that.

Website is really slow on Firefox 32 (on Ubuntu), it's like trying to run Atom. After that, hopefully it remains responsive. Maybe add a limit to how much data is shown right away? like 5 posts, then load the rest as people scroll down? Duno, feels like too many posts are being downloaded at once.

The site is definitely too slow. Thanks for the tip! I'm going to reduce the number of posts downloaded and then also lazy load the images.. hopefully that will help.

Are you getting all of the posts as a single JSON object? It might also speed things up to make multiple small requests to the API (one per post) and handle it asynchronously. That wouldn't be something you could do quickly, though.

Also maybe don't even call linkify.js until an item loads (you can set custom event handlers for dynamically generated elements in jQuery[0]) - I don't know if you're already doing this or not.

Fewer posts per page would probably help too.

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-e...

Yes, I'm getting 15 posts as a single JSON object. I'm going to try these things. Thanks for the help!!!

I'd love a clearer indication of your mission, maybe in the tagline or an about-us page. I can't decide if you're a new-product-finder, an announcement platform, or a social network for hackers. There's evidence for each of those in different views of the site. :)

Was gonna say this now that I've seen it work! From a first inspection this makes me think of producthunt but maybe for projects in progress or not launch-ready?

Right on the money! It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready.

It's main purpose is to get feedback on what you're working on as you're working on it. I realize now that I never mention that on the site. Thanks for pointing that out!

I'm imagining a Pinterest-style UI working great here — I can imagine tons of people using a sort of Pinterest for code/products.

Yes!

Where's the bracket?

Based on the name and the logo, I assumed this would be setup like some kind of tournament bracket.

HackerBracket was something totally different originally, but I couldn't think of a new name. xD

Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this: http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg

hahaha fantastic idea!

I don't normally complain about such things, but your font colour could be a lot more contrasty. It's on the extreme end of the current grey text on white/light background vogue and even for me it's pretty hellish to read.

Noted. Thank you! I've heard this a couple times too so your eyes are not the issue hah

Appreciated!

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's an open version of Producthunt?

You're not wrong :). It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready-- which I believe is most of them.

Your website made me force quit firefox 32 on macbook pro retina....

eeek! sorry about that! working on fixing the issues on ff.

I joined and posted something and a few things jumped out: no place for a link to the project (if there's a home for it) and no way to edit or update posts. Weird.

There's now links to projects by clicking the timestamp. Edit coming soon. :)

The UI for updating a project is a bit off. I think a 'My Projects' type link where I could see and edit would work a bit better.

How can I login or create account?

The buttons to signup and login are in nav bar on the top right, but I've gotten word that those buttons don't appear on Safari. -_- doh.

haha i am using safari, let me try on chrome!

:D thank you!

Seems to be loading indefinitely for me, do you have to signup to see anything?

My site might just be indefinitely slow :-(. You don't have to signup to see anything.

Oh just tried in Chrome and loads fine, might be a Firefox issue there?

I get more and more of those recently... unfortunately I'm unwilling to fire up Chrome specifically for any site

It looks interesting. Loading really slowly though (firefox).

Thank you :-). The loading time is definitely something I need to work on.

FWIW, to me it looks like linkify.js is timing out on something.

Noted. Thank you!

Is that loading icon supposed to be a game of 2048?

Seems not to support animated GIFs.

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