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Show HN: Forkbin lets you fork public lists

34 pointsby jmtameover 12 years ago

5 comments

shazowover 12 years ago
Very nice! I've been toying with a similar idea for a while too, here's some feedback and ideas from my own project:<p>- Bug: Don't let me create empty list items.<p>- Definitely let people make private link-only anonymous lists without being logged in, then let them claim (ie. fork into an account) when they make an account.<p>- Have an embed code, so that you can make a list and embed it in a blog post or whatnot. Then you can maintain the list on forkbin without worrying about updating your blog post every time something changes.<p>- If you let people include media in the content (top music videos? best photos of X? etc), then they can use it for much more than you originally planned.<p>Also, think about what kinds of lists you want to optimize for. I've been trying to break down all types of lists into a small set of orthogonal categories, this is what I've come up with: <a href="https://gist.github.com/2467329" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/2467329</a> (feedback welcome--note that maintaining this list and accepting feedback is a pain itself).<p>Best of luck!
wamattover 12 years ago
Quite a cool idea, nice! :)<p>Suggestion, might be friendlier to let us play with the app first, before requiring an upfront commitment to register.<p>After clicking the "Fork" button, and then seeing that form... CMD-W and onto the other 20 open tabs :p
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fratisover 12 years ago
This is cool, but I'd like to be able to fork one of my own lists. Consider this use case:<p>I'm a freelance web developer, for example, and there are twenty things I need to do on every project. I could create a master list of things that need to get done, then simply fork that list every time I start a new project, which will inevitably have a unique set of other items to be completed.
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vineetover 12 years ago
Looks interesting. But perhaps give a use case so that we can see where it will be useful (in particular the forking action)?
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ragmondoover 12 years ago
Is an open version of google schemer ?