I like the idea and started filling out everything for my side project, but then after I clicked submit I was told to sign up to continue.<p>That is a dark pattern and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tell me upfront that I need to create an account. Not in small font, on the first page.
Tricky thing about side-projects to me is they often start as "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to others requires 10x the amount of effort to "productize" it.
A site like this could be handy if minimally viable side projects could be get feedback to gauge interest in further development.
Pretty neat! It's like Indie ProductHunt.<p>Feedback:<p>Login with Twitter uses an Oauth scope with more permissions that may be necessary. Do you really need to be able to read my private tweets? Identity should be sufficient. Also, Twitter was the right choice for identity provider for this kind of site.<p>The first project I looked at [0] reports "[author]" has not shared the story of their project yet. Ask them in a comment " However, the sole comment on the project is by the original author, posting a project description. This suggests that the posting workflow is unclear.<p>That project also has an associated Kickstarter [1]. As a reader/voter, it would be helpful to have pointers to the various websites that are associated with the project. Make it easy for my to find the official Kickstarter / GitHub / Indigogo / Shapeways / etc<p>The site is relatively slow to load.<p>[0] <a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a8b3c72ad7a70017ed0a0f" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a8b3c72ad7a70017ed0a0f</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/computer-engineering-for-babies/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/compute...</a>
I’m working on a pre / early revenue MVP marketplace <a href="https://www.thriftmvp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.thriftmvp.com</a><p>The success of these side projects is extremely low so people tend to create multiple of those. But the truth is that a lot of these have great value even if they don’t generate any revenue. It’s kind of like unused real estate.<p>If anyone has any side projects they want to sell, you can reach out to us and we would be happy to help you find a buyer for them and get rewarded for your efforts even if you didn’t succeed the first time.
My side project is to generate ideas for how I want computing to be and try implement algorithms that do so. My vision of computing is so far away from how computing works in this era, it's more like Xanadu and The Mother of All Demos. I am a DevOps engineer interested in parallel programming and distributed systems amongst other things, see my GitHub.<p>I posted my idea pages. I figure they are sources of inspiration for this clique of software engineers and makers.<p><a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0</a>
<a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4</a>
<a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8</a><p><a href="https://github.com/samsquire/ideas" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samsquire/ideas</a>
<a href="https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2</a>
<a href="https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3</a>
<a href="https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4</a> (incomplete)<p>Ideas4 is more data structure ideas and futuristic computing ideas and automated program synthesis.
Some feedback:<p>I logged in using my Twitter profile, however when I go to the "profile" section, the fields appear to be read only? Not sure, but I couldn't seem to update my name.<p>Otherwise seemed to work great :)<p><a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a90cdf2ad7a70017ed0d55" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a90cdf2ad7a70017ed0d55</a>
Just as a heads up: I created an account and got logged in as someone else.<p><a href="https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07" rel="nofollow">https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07</a><p>Pretty sure I tried to sign up with "pkulak".