Show HN: MinoHubs – A platform for software project hubs
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You have so many features. It's going to take me too long to sell myself on the project and I don't want to commit to that time effort unless I know what I'm going to get in the end.
There's also no clear NEXT THING YOU SHOULD DO on that edit page. I saw this eventually, but that's probably not the next most important thing.
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What drew my eye was the giant warning. When you show warnings like this...be sure to give me a clear call to action to take steps to removing it.
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Since that message faces the owner's users, maybe a link can be clicked to message the owner that they need to still connect a repository. That being said, I saw that from the editor view. That copy should probably say something different.
Also, it would be great to have some obvious links that say...okay, go share this page. Or here's the URL of the page when the page is done.
Solid start, though. Your goal should be that the secret weapon for successful software projects is using MinoHubs. Definition of success for a software project? That might be the tricky part. Whatever you decide, drive people to that. Thanks for sharing!
Try and discover what your customer needs. Interview some software foundations and ask what their their biggest pains are. Ask where they spend the most time outside of development. In what areas do they struggle? Communication with members? Getting donations? Processing donations? Getting committed members?
I'm guessing that getting donations is their biggest problem. Getting paid is as easy as setting up a paypal button these days. I'd guess open source software devs struggle with marketing/advertising rather than technical platforms. :)
I wanted to do a SSO with Github, but your permissions require access to my private repos. I won't give 3rd party apps access to private repos. Can you adjust the permissions for Github SSO?
We use GitHub to verify ownership of repositories that you specify on your hub as well as SSO, but seeing as your repositories have to be public to be of any real use, it makes sense to just ask for public repos.
We've just changed it. Thanks for the feedback :)
Seems to be working now, thanks!
Was there anything that you could suggest making clearer?
If your code is hosted on GitHub, you can respond to bugs or other specific problems using issues, but finding a place to grow a community of users that can help each other, provide feedback, vote on feature requests and provide useful information to new users is hard.
At the same time, we want to help open source projects monetize in a more effective way than simple donations. We've built a paid support system that simplifies the flow for project owners into specifying their rate, accepting a request and getting paid upon fulfillment. We're also incentivizing backing; in return for backing a project, your posts are promoted in the project's discussion area.
If that explanation makes sense, could you offer suggestions for changes that would have made it more understandable the first time you saw it?
We'll be adding an example soon.
Thanks
At a guess, you're probably also not targeting teeny-tiny libraries/toolkits, because they don't need much more than Github provides. Only bigger and more mature projects probably have need of this, so you might mention that too.