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Life & fun · February 11, 2012

SWYM - Share what you make

Hi guys, I launched a two-day app at a Hacker News London meetup last year. It's called SWYM: Share What You Make. Check it out here - http://swym.me The idea is simple and in a way inspired from Show HN posts. Every time someone posts something cool here, someone asks how did you make it? So Swym provides a simple way to share the tools and people you built your projects with. I put it on the shelf after presenting it last year, but it's one of those things that kept coming back at me. So, I decided to bring it back to life. Here's the full back story - http://swym.me/story If there's…

SWYM - Share what you make launched on February 11, 2012 with 50 votes, #37 of 360 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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SWYM is a platform that lets makers and creators share what they built alongside the tools and people who helped create it. Inspired by the "how did you make it?" questions that arise in creative communities, it provides a straightforward way to document projects and their origins. The service is designed for anyone who creates things and wants to explain their process and acknowledge their collaborators.

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Hi guys, I launched a two-day app at a Hacker News London meetup last year. It's called SWYM: Share What You Make. Check it out here - http://swym.me The idea is simple and in a way inspired from Show HN posts. Every time someone posts something cool here, someone asks how did you make it? So Swym provides a simple…

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