Ask HN: Review my site - devcheatsheet.com

You have a couple of cheat sheets of mine in your directory, which I appreciate. However, you directly link to the PDFs. It would be nice if you included a link to my site that lists the sheets I've made. Maybe on the source page for my name?

I like it. Clean layout, easy to find what I was looking for (even searched for Clojure).<p>But is this merely an aggregation of cheat-sheets off of the web? Is there any review process involved before a cheat-sheet shows up on your list? I guess what I am getting at is how is this different from me just searching google for "emacs cheatsheets"?

I loved your site when I first saw it... So much I submitted it myself:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052937" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052937</a>

There seems to be no understanding of 'version' by the search algorithm. For instance with Python:<p><a href="http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/python/" rel="nofollow">http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/python/</a><p>Version 2.4 is near the top. Even if that was the most popular cheat sheet, there should be some way to have references for newer versions at the top. I know it's a tough problem that Google hasn't cracked even, but it would be nice to have addressed even with a workaround like a version keyword for each cheat sheet and then a list of versions on the right side.

Some user voting might be nice. This would likely create a canonical cheat sheet for each section.<p>For instance, here <a href="http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/ruby/" rel="nofollow">http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/ruby/</a> the first cheat sheet isn't even ruby specific, and I think this is a lose.<p>Otherwise, a great site I'll likely be using it in the future.

If you are looking to evolve the site here are some suggestions: Create an online editor in javascript or flash that lets your users create and edit cheat sheets online. Leverage a CC license so your users can print and spread the created cheat sheets (free advertising). Sell prints (photos), mousepads, booklets etc. While offering free products or a monetary reward to the authors (threadless style). Also let the author give their reward to a related organization (like the python software foundation for a python cheat sheet). Keep user participation high and the site organized with tagging and ranking features.

Goddamn that's slick. That goes straight in my bookmarks.<p>Any chance you could get an XNA section?

Great implementation!<p>Most of your visitors will be coming because they want to learn a language from a cheat sheet or have a quick reference. This seems like a great target audience for Amazon links. If you had 2-3 books you recommended in the right sidebar for each category, I think that might fare better than Google Ads. Could be worth A/B testing.

Like it. There's a lot of content and it's well organized.<p>It would be nice if there was more information on each cheat sheet before I clicked it. Maybe a list of things that are in it (Class Functions, String Functions, Regex Expressions for example). Or add more tags to each cheatsheet.<p>Keep up the good work.

I like it. Though I feel that some of these guides don't really qualify as cheat sheets. I consider a cheat sheet to be a quick reference with helpful commands, syntax, examples etc. Some of these documents are just condensed howto guides. For instance, most of the SEO ones. Something to think about anyway.

Nice site. Have you considered incorporating any interaction with the site, such as a way to rate the cheat sheets or give comments? Also, it (might) be cool if there was the ability to create user/community driven cheat sheets that could be modified wiki-style or something.

Good job on making a nice and clean design! One thing I found slightly confusing was that some images of cheatsheets links to an intermediate page, instead of the cheatsheet itself.<p>Examples:<p>ANSI C Reference Card v2.2 on <a href="http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/c/" rel="nofollow">http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/c/</a><p>STL Quick Reference on <a href="http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/cpp/" rel="nofollow">http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/cpp/</a><p>I'm gussing it is because these have different formats. One suggestion would be to pick one of them (e.g. PDF) for the image, and create links on the different formats (e.g. "Formats: DVI, PDF, TeX") for alternative formats.

Any chance of getting a MongoDB cheat sheet?

Hi there Tim Church. Nice clean site.<p>It looks like this is a well-named niche bookmark browsing site. I looked for more detailed About, but could only find the rather terse text mentioned at the bottom of each page. Do you personally do the maintenance and curation?<p>I don't mind at all if you (Tim Church) do it, its just important to know whos opinion forms the content and how well any broken links or tech advances will be catered for.<p>Good work BTW, no matter who has the keys to Djangos Admin Interface!

Very useful, but the :: separators are distracting. I think that most first-time visitors are looking to scan your collection for a particular technology (that's what I did).<p>This view [<a href="http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag" rel="nofollow">http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag</a>] is more readable. How about using the 'tag' view layout, but add categories to make browsing easier.<p>Another suggestion: add 3 or 4 'similar cheat sheets' to each cheat sheet to facilitate browsing and reduce bounce rates.

What I'd like is being able to type in a big search textbox sth like:<p>"java try catch syntax"<p>and it would automatically (without me hitting enter) fetch the sample code and display it in a nice syntax-highlighted manner. It should also offer auto-completion like Google (eg. after I typed "java try"...).<p>Or:<p>"php class syntax" "svn ignore files" "diff show side by side" "c++ template function" etc.<p>It'd be a lot of work but it seems doable and it'd be a killer destination site for programmers.

Have you seen the Ruby "cheat" gem?<p><a href="http://cheat.errtheblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cheat.errtheblog.com/</a><p>It outputs cheat sheets to the command line, and allows people to edit them through a wiki. Might be a good source of cheat sheets for your site?<p>Also a command line tool to pull in cheat sheets from your site would be useful, although automatically converting them to ascii might be tricky.

You could do some work to make the directory easier to read. Some inspiration: <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/AZDesigners" rel="nofollow">http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/AZDesigners</a> <a href="http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoReference.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoReferen...</a>

Good job pulling together all these cheatsheets and a nice site too!<p>Next step would be for something like a cheat sheet wiki where the information has a clear time stamp and has the possibility of being kept accurate.<p>This is a problem with these pdf cheat sheets.

This is an excellent resource and done very professionally. I like the clean site look and nothing is more than two clicks away. Surely it will be a winner with developers.<p>Let us know when your new year's resolution traffic is on target! Nice blog too:)

Within minutes of discovering this on HN I needed a cheatsheet for RoboCopy. Didn't find one on your site. For what it's worth here's a pretty good one I dug up <a href="http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html" rel="nofollow">http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html</a>

This is really convenient, very well done. Is there any way we could network a text editor such as TextMate, to pull context help depending on the file/language you're currently using? So you press F1 and it would send you to the appropriate PDF...?

I'd like to see the date the actual cheatsheet was created...not just added to the site. A javascript cheatsheet from 2001 is likely to be much different than one from 2007. Other than that I love the site!

<a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...</a><p>Is in the "vi" section but not the "Vim" one.

(Nitpick: It's Tcl, not TCL)

Any chance for a QT entry in the Libraries &#38; Frameworks section? That's defiantly a framework worth noting, but I'm not sure how much cheatsheets are out there for it. They are kind of hard to find.

I switch languages a lot in the course of a week, this will be very useful to me.<p>It seems really well polished - I like the look, and I was able to find everything I wanted to find. Well done!

Seems that you are currently hotlinking the cheatsheets from other sites. imho it would be nicer to host the files yourself, to prevent link rot and to not "steal" other peoples bandwidth.

Thank you HN! I really appreciate all of the positive feedback and creative suggestions. Your comments have given me lots of ideas and the encouragement to keep improving the site.

You should add a button that says "Report broken link". For example the My UNIX cheatsheet under ssh is broken. What do you think?

Nice, it's bookmarked now. Good organization, looks pretty complete.<p>(Why are so many cheat sheets needed for SQL injection?)

Very handy, good job! Bookmarked. Thanks.

I like your site. However, I did a search on 'transactions' and it came up with nothing. Cool idea though.

excellent work, just bookmarked it. The only thing I'll recommend you is to improve that adsense there or look for a new revenue model, you won't earn much from it at the place it is, maybe sell ebooks later: kind of the "devcheatsheet book".

Nice, clean &#38; beautiful design, so the overview great :)<p>Already bookmarked!

Simple Interface..<p>Some of the links to stanford seems to be broken..

Excellent work. I'm telling all my friends about this great resource.

Very cool Tim!<p>I will be using this for a ruby reference for sure.

Funny, I read "Life Cheat Sheet" instead of "Lift Cheat Sheet".

Nice collection ! Community moderation/features would be nice.

Browsers would be nice. Best organization I've seen!

Very clean UI. Like the collection of cheatsheets.

Very nice! Already useful for me, thanks!

Awww, no Groovy?

great. bookmarked.