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Hi guys, founder of JustHackIt here. I'm really excited by the number of users that have joined in less than 24 hours. It seems there are some really smart people posting. Already I've heard that a few people have begun working on projects together.
Now that our user base and activity is picking up, what can we do to make this site more useful for the people on it? Would you like to see a common format for postings evolve? Do you want to get an IRC or meebo chat room going? Should we try to get a contest started?
Please submit any ideas you have here or shoot me an email breck7@gmail.com.
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Definitely need an IRC channel. Also, can we have our full names appear instead of our username when posting or commenting? Nicknames are so 1.0 :P
I've love to see an irc channel going.
working on it. for now there is always #startups
I'd like an RSS/Atom feed of whatever I posted here. ot sure if comments should be included. Maybe optionally.
IRC channel 100%
I'd suggest when joining you do an email verification process of new accounts of some kind as opposed to a straight add. If this place picks up it'll end up full of spam.
Perhaps some type of category system where posts can be grouped together such as Ideas, Non-Hacker looking for, Hacker looking for, Financing, Marketing & Promotions, Brain Storms etc.
Also there needs to be some way to remove posts as it seems now just voting them down puts them below what I'm about to read and then I see the post I just voted down again. Maybe delete them from a users view when voted down?
I agree with the category system although I'd recommend tags as opposed to hard categories. Seems more flexible to me. It can be things like sarge mentions (Hacker looking for, Financing etc...) as well as two hacker types looking for people using the same technologies for development and so forth.
Great ideas. I'm working on some type of tagging system now.
Drupal taxonomy system allows for free tagging or pre-determined categorization, or a blend there-of. Enhance that with OpenCalais integration and you wind up with some pretty powerful stuff!
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matt j. sorenson
some random bits that came into my head in the first 5 minutes of playing with the site:
* the atom feed on the front page needs to go into a <link> element in the html head -- it's not there when you are not logged in.
* grey links look odd. clickable things should look *strong*, not weak.
* support a more wiki-ish syntax (and a preview for posts -- what is this list going to look like?!)
* make it very very VERY easy to see where to cklick to post something, to comment, and to join. Perhaps allow people to do something without joining. Or let them register on the same for they are writing their post in.
* support OpenID
Some websites to steal ideas from: http://soup.io is very easy to use (but very ajaxy). http://identi.ca is a free/open twitter clone -- laconica is the software that runs it. XMPP-based federated microblogging... perhaps that would be a way to join this site with?
This is definately a website where users need a messaging system, there's so many times I've thought it'd be worth sending a private message to someone.
Also tags / categories would be good.
btw +1 for IRC
Some of the posts are region-based, so I'd like to see that emphasized in some way. I'm in Aachen, Germany, so many of the requests don't apply to me. Would be nice to filter that out, so that I only see posts relevant to me (if somebody wants to contact the whole world, or Europe, or Germany, or North Rine-Westfalia, or Aachen). I also visit my parents regularely, so requests for that other town would apply to me, too.
Maybe you could just add some fancy Google Maps Widgets where you can add areas and a radius for each post, and everybody can add geolocations in there profile. Then limit the posts shown to me to those that either have no area or an area that I'm in (or at least highlight those that are more relevant for me).
It would be super-cool if that worked with a personalized RSS feed, too, cause I'm not gonna come here on a regular bases, but my Google Reader does.
I like the region idea. Maybe have tags, but instead of just one field for tags separated with comma's you could have separate fields for mandatory tags, and the miscelaneous tag area. Region is a good one to start with. Tags are great if people use them.
oh yea... notice urls and link them. please.
I think JustHackIt could use some sort of online code-sharing system. Maybe you could team up with one of the websites that specializes in social code-sharing. My personal preference is for Siafoo, since I know the admins there are open to collaboration and quite active in developing features.