Show HN: Thankadeveloper.org

I made this site, and I'm in two minds at all whether to publicise it (further than just telling a few friends).. anyway, decided to post it here to hopefully get some feedback. It's just running on a single heroku dyno, so hopefully you don't like it that much ;)

Anyway - the idea came to me after listening to a Changelog episode on the burnout of Lee Hambley of Capistrano fame. I thought that maybe it'd be nice to enable messages of thanks to be sent to contributors to projects.

Thing is, I'm really not sure it's a good idea at all! I like the idea of it not being about money, but I wonder if people will feel obligated to respond (they shouldn't, it's supposed to be a one-way put of happy messages!). Also, the service works by pulling out commits, grabbing a committers email, and sending them the message... and people may hate that. That said, all the messages will be moderated, so nothing nasty will get through.

I dunno, what do you think? If you were a committer on a project and you got this message - would you think: "hey, that was nice", or would you think "Where the hell is this spam coming from?"

I was thinking of shutting it down before even posting this, but I thought, what the hey, I should at least see what people think!

Best, Patrick