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Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

17 comments

·January 16, 2025

I made an open source directory for sharing projects

Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further! Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users.

Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!

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pknerd

I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.

preciousoo

Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever

pknerd

The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face

soGeneri

This can be extended to include what you’re talking about. Do you have a list in mind?

pknerd

nope

mxuribe

Agreed! And, i would call such a site/portal/etc., something like "Awesome Pain"...I guess it could serve as a repo of anything from:

* startup ideas...

* to gotchas for devs to think about fixing for their respective apps/services...

* to a study in best practices, or maybe what not todos...

...etc. ;-)

lakshikag

Would love to have itslaunched.com added as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712666

soGeneri

Will check it out!

navigate8310

Subscribed RSS. Very helpful!

kiru_io

Nice, was looking for something similar.

that_guy_iain

Cool. I actually posted my project to a few open-source directory sites yesterday. I got an email today that it will go live on the 4th of July unless I pay for a quicker submission... I emailed them and pointed out it was just hurting themselves and they said they have a queue and they only do 3 a day so every launch gets its own time sort of thing. The value proposition is that you can find alternatives not that you can launch your project there, it makes no sense to me other than they've seen launch platforms do it so...

I think there needs to be a good open-source alternatives directory that isn't run by someone who doesn't treat it as a launch platform.

frizlab

Very nice!

rorytbyrne

Missing lobste.rs

soGeneri

On the list to be added! I’ll check it out

Dansvidania

isn't that "closed" ?

meaning not anyone can post something there?

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