Show HN
Show HN launched on July 3, 2014 with 1,302 votes, #1 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Show HN is a Hacker News feature that lets users share and discuss their projects, products, and creations with the community. Launched in 2014, it provides a dedicated space for makers and developers to showcase work-in-progress or finished projects and receive feedback from fellow builders and technologists. The category serves as a platform for creative and technical projects across various domains.
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Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts2011 · hnshowcase.com · ▲63http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…
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