Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

by epi0Bauqu • 18 years ago

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epi0Bauqu6• 18 years ago

I was keeping a list of these, and I just decided to make it public and build it out a bit. If you have additions/deletions/organization ideas, you can edit it, or just put them on the comment page: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Comments_on_Ask_...

edw519• 18 years ago

Wow, great work!

I even found some posts I made over 180 days ago.

Amazing how much smarter I got in 6 months.

ericb• 18 years ago

So weird... I was thinking of this very idea about an hour ago, but decided I didn't have time to implement it. Very nice implementation! The conversation here is valuable enough to save and annotate...

epi0Bauqu6• 18 years ago

Yeah, I had been thinking of doing it since first using the site and noticing the repetition in questions and lack of great search. Search has improved, but I still was finding it difficult to quickly find the quality discussions on a given topic. So I finally decided to just do it (and finish it today). I have grander plans for the Startups Wiki in general, but those will have to wait for another day...

prakash• 18 years ago

Wow! How long did it take to do this manually?

epi0Bauqu6• 18 years ago

Well, I've been saving posts for a while, so that part I'm unclear on. The organization/building out part: ~8 hours. http://ask.searchyc.com helped a lot.

chengmi• 18 years ago

Great resource! Hope you don't mind, we added a link to your wiki on http://ask.searchyc.com

Frocer• 18 years ago

This is awesome, thanks!

fallentimes• 18 years ago

Gabriel, this is a gold mine - thank you.

iamdave• 18 years ago

Great work, this should really help out newer members, especially if we can get a link up in the navigation bar.

epi0Bauqu6• 18 years ago

I agree that something like that (a link or a page of links) would be useful to new users (and old). There are other services like HackrTrackr and searchyc that would be useful to link to as well. I can't speak for the others, but I, for one, plan to maintain this page.

tjweir• 18 years ago

+1 Awesome. Thanks for your effort, this is an excellent resource.

t0pj• 18 years ago

Simply awesome. Great job!

omfut• 18 years ago

Thats awesome. You have done a great service to all the hackers here in YC. Great work. Thanks.

lux• 18 years ago

Wow, thanks! That's a great list!

dangoldin• 18 years ago

+1. Thanks for the effort. For newer members like myself this definitely helps - which also helps the older members since I am not reposting.

SwellJoe• 18 years ago

I admire the "no style" style. A touch of good typography, and it turns out very pleasant to read.

thomasswift• 18 years ago

Cheers!!!

ROFISH• 18 years ago

Why is there are Rails and a RoR section, they're the same thing. (Are there not any pure Ruby questions on YC too?)

epi0Bauqu6• 18 years ago

My bad. Fixed. I must have switched the name mid way through, and didn't realize when cleaning it up. (Yes, I know they are the same thing.)

There is a Ruby vs Lisp q under X vs Y (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98227). Otherwise, I didn't see any pure Ruby questions. But if you have some saved, I'd be happy to add them. Or you can.

spencerfry• 18 years ago

Everyone has already said this, but I want to give you my own thanks. Cheers to you, sir!

agentbleu• 18 years ago

great idea

wumi• 18 years ago

you know, what good will this do if new users don't see this when coming to the site?

raju• 18 years ago

Great job sir. Thanks!

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