One of my side projects has actually made it to the internet. Woohoo! My ability to scupper my own projects by overthinking them apparently does know some bounds. Anyway, I'd love to hear what HN thinks of the idea, execution, etc.<p>http://www.cheatography.com/<p>It's a simple cheat sheet builder and resource - you assemble a cheat sheet with lots of useful info, and the site generates a PDF and shares it with everyone.<p>At the moment it's all ad-supported, and I'm considering adding adverts to the PDFs as well. I'm trying to come up with better revenue ideas than the current (AdSense) advertising.<p>Things I'm already working on ... I'm not particularly happy with how the cheat sheets are exposed - if you visit a cheat sheet page, there's no above-the-fold route to other cheat sheets. The homepage links to new cheat sheets but not in a particularly enticing way. And I'm going to add a "cheat screen" - a live, full-page, JS-controlled cheat sheet you can bookmark.
This is wonderful. I'm totally gonna use it and contribute to it on a long flight tomorrow.<p>You can always tell a good idea when it gets your gears turning. With the sort of database that you'll be building, you could experiment with different visualization strategies and hyperlinking between cheat sheets!<p>A simpler task for version 1.0.1: Make sure that formatting is cleaner on the generated PDFs. For example, on this cheat sheet there is one hanging row on an otherwise empty pp2<p><a href="http://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/javascript/pdf/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/javascrip...</a>
Nice idea, I like it. It kinda "democratizes" the cheat-sheet generation industry (as much as such an industry exists).<p>One thing that you should fix is the PDF download. When downloading a cheatsheet the filename looks like someGibberish.pdf.part and Windows doesn't know what to do with it. Should be: HumanReadableCheatsheetTitle.pdf instead.
Great site and app. I made a cheatsheet builder for videos (vidinotes) - thereby taking video stills, adding notes, and exporting as PDF. But I had too many projects so I sold it.