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but i'm open to feedback so we can make a better experience for all of you ;)
- no, the search list is not secret.. you can even convert any page to markdown https://openhardware.directory/devices/md - you just have to add /md to any page
- also, you can browse it with llms.txt (https://openhardware.directory/llms.txt)
I'm open to new ideas on how to improve the search experience
Also, I'm curious — how do you think we can make the device pages even better? My personal problem is that I want to find devices for a specific use case, and the issue is that it's pretty hard to extract real-life use cases for all the scraped devices. We will need a way to extract these insights from the internet.
That raises a key question: how do we design a backend that's secure, safe, and robust enough to support a wide range of use cases while still being extensible enough for user-driven customization?
In Django it's pretty simple, you define a model, write a bit of logic to give permissions to users to edit it and that's it. (it would have been awesome if this Django concept can be used for building frontend apps easier).