Ask HN: Have you been too embarrased to post in Show HN?

3 pointsFsp2WFuH7y ago3 comments

I just finished up a proof of concept I've been working on as my side project. It's a location based mini forum - you make a post and you pick a location for it, and there's tree style comments, simple.

It's a bit cringy because there's no content and I've just crossed the milestone that let me host it. I'll be using it as my personal blog posting about things I wanted to talk about in my area and others can too.

I almost don't want to press submit. Is the UI and concept too cringy?

http://www.zipbash.com/

3 comments

hotpockets7y ago

Seems a cool concept. UI is fine. I think you'd get more interest if you could seed it with fake data for the sake of demo'ing it. Like a proof of concept: "this is what it could be". Just my $0.02.

gus_massa7y ago

I agree that a few more sample questions/answers would be useful.

borplk7y ago

It's fine.

I don't think it's about how pretty the thing looks but the concept that you'd be showing.

If something looks super ugly but there are some new/substantial ideas behind it people can look over that and still discuss the idea.

Beyond a certain point if something is too early stage or there's nothing to show it's not very useful to do show HN.

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