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ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Hi Ferki, the site is now on

thecodeshare.com

ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
Do you have any other suggestions? Comments like these are very valuable to me. I’m having a lot of fun working on Open Source Radar, and I would really enjoy to hear more from you, Hammy.

Any features? Other areas of the site I can improve

ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
Hi Hammy,

Please see my response to your other comment. Not sure if you picked up on it, but I was kidding! I would never do that in a production environment.

ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
Hi @hammy havoc,

Thank you for your feedback. I plan on adding your recommendations when I have some time over next weekend. You’re absolutely right, the site needs to be compliant. I have it taken down until I make it compliant. I really appreciate you taking the time to bring those items to my attention.

Not sure if you picked up on it, but I was joking about the .txt file database. I have an appropriate, popular SQL based database engine to store the data.

If you want to, the site will be up by Sunday with your recommended changes. Thank you!

ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
Actually, multiple .txt files, each in own container, and there is a kubernetes cluster to handle the load balancing for the writes to the .txt files. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.
ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
I’m using a .txt file to store all the data
ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
Yeah I mean I threw it up in a short amount of time, couple of things to address so thanks for your help.
ReddBird··on Open Source Radar – Share, Collab, Find Software Projects
I recently launched my web app for devs, by devs, to share personal software projects with the world. Any stage of development is welcome on this platform.

I added features to prioritize open source projects. I also added comment/like features, among others, to really highlight finding collaborators.

I plan on making the GitHub public soon, and will share the link. Tech stack is angular, Java, and I’m running the web server on my local home server.

I recently designed the UI, and would really appreciate feedback.

Looking forward to hearing back from some of you. Cheers.

ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
I fixed mobile bugs see it now.
ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Please see the changes I have just deployed
ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Wow, thank you for all that. I will do that tomorrow, and I will check in with you after making changes.

I plan on adding more features tomorrow, and I will use padding for them. I am adding a like feature, and a comments feature. Not sure which one to do first, but they will be there.. thanks so much for your response, that really means a lot to me

ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
How can I improve it? What areas should I focus on? (Ex; front page, specific posts, etc)
ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
How should I go about improving the design? Any areas I should focus on? What would work well?

I have time to develop tomorrow and I want to make it effective.

I am new to creating design.

ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Strange… probably something to do with the network configuration. I’m routing local traffic in a container through a cloudflare tunnel, it probably is not available in your zone.
ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Thanks for the feedback @cranberry turkey !
ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
Haha yes, my skill set is geared towards full stack engineering.

Had a lot of fun developing this when I had some free time though, thought I’d share it to the world.

ReddBird··on Made a Web app for devs to share projects / find contributors
I built this site for those software projects you have been working on and want the world to see. It’s also geared towards finding collaborators in an early stage. It is catered towards open sourced projects (in line with finding collaborators).

I had a lot of fun building it, and would love to see what the community thinking of it. I put a heavy emphasis on making the UI beautiful on both mobile and desktop.

Any feedback? Areas in which the site can improve? I’d love to hear it!

Would love to see if any devs want to assist in its further development as well.