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Frequently I would like to find an example of a project using a framework/language/package well. Sometimes live examples are more helpful than reading the docs because a good example has all of the context and imports that docs frequently ignore. Stack overflow similarly does not include enough context to make larger decisions.

Some queries this site might answer:

- “find a react project that uses jest to test responsive layouts”

- “find a Ruby on Rails project that uses transactions in a query on an SQLite DB”

Does a site like this exist? If not, what features would you want from it were I to build it?

Inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33329079

Similar to https://www.chesspuzzles.com/mate-in-three, is there a website that presents you with some prewritten code that you can edit slightly to get the desired result?

Hi HN!

I've gotten a bit frustrated by going to `datadog.com` instead of `app.datadog.com`. I know that I could use a chrome extension to do this redirect for me (I do). But since this is a painful UX, I think that SaaS companies should do something to improve it for all of their users.

So I made `marketing-redirect`, a quick bit of HTML to put on a marketing page that lets customers get automatically redirected to the application they're already paying for:

https://github.com/elliotaplant/marketing-redirect

You can see an example of it in action here:

https://elliotplant.com/marketing-redirect/

Aside from just making the tools I use better, I'm brainstorming ways to monetize this. My best idea is to create a cloud service the help marketing teams remove or tag the page views from paying customers who visit their marketing page so their analytics software can exclude them as possible leads. I'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks,

Elliot

I've always hated how apps like Mint and WealthFront require my plaintext username and password, so I was thinking about how those apps could be improved with by accessing my bank's API on my behalf. Unfortunately, I've never heard of a bank with an open API, but I'm curious to hear what you would make if your bank had an API.

I was talking about technical debt with a friend and we took it to the logical extreme, so I wanted to hear an answer from more senior technologists. What did we get right the first time? What would be completely different?

Shopify offers everything I need to sell physical goods, but I'd like to sell a piece of software I wrote as a subscription. Based on experience and a cursory google search, it seems like Shopify isn't a great choice for SaaS products. On top of the website/marketing/payment/analytics services Shopify provides, I'd love to get subscriptions, cohort analytics, API docs hosting, signup/cancel webhooks, and an endpoint to query a customer's subscription level.

I realize that I could bundle together a few services to get these features, but it would be nice if they were all in one place. Do you know of any products that could do this? Thanks!

I, like many of you, am a software engineer currently quarantining myself with plenty of extra time on my hands. Does anyone know of a way to contribute to the local, national, or global fight against covid-19 beyond staying at home?

It seems like wishful thinking to assume that a web-app could contribute much right now, but I don't see any harm in asking.