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# our-work
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Hi! 👋. I’ve been working on a side project for the past few months and thought of sharing it here to get some early feedback before a full public launch. Here’s the website: https://awesomehunt.org Short introduction:
AwesomeHunt is a collection of community-curated lists of learning resources, on all topics imaginable.
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Why? When we want to learn a new topic, we usually search the topic name on Google and spend some time deciding the places we would learn the topic from. Although you can find pretty much anything you would want on Google, you still need to spend significant time curating the best resources. We usually need to depend on a bunch of blogs, and articles to decide what courses, books, podcasts, and videos are highly recommended for a topic. Manually curated lists of learning resources are incredibly helpful and save a lot of time. One of the ways the Internet has tried to solve this problem is by creating a bunch of public repositories on GitHub as Awesome Lists (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome), where people add learning resources for a lot of topics as simple links in a text file. It’s incredible that so many resources have been curated this way and a large number of people have been contributing to these repositories. As useful as this is, these lists are very much limited to the programming communities and do not have resources on the most common non-tech topics. These lists also do not have a way to rank these resources, and contributing to these lists is not frictionless. How? AwesomeHunt solves these problems by making it easy to find any kind of resource on any kind of topic, ranked by their popularity. It’s easy to contribute to the lists, and discuss best ways to learn a topic with other people. Here’s the list of key features: - Users can suggest a new topic if it doesn’t exist on the website. Topics can be tagged to categorise them - Users can suggest new resources for any topic/fix or remove incorrect information - Users can upvote the resources they find helpful - Users can take part in discussions under a topic or a learning resource. - Every contribution will go through a manual screening process before going live on the site. - Every contribution by a user will be tracked, and awarded points (example: https://awesomehunt.org/users/virajclive)
Right now, the list of resources on the website is limited, but still quite useful. I can imagine the same website with resources on any kind of topic, with top resources voted by lots of people, with discussions around the best ways to learn a topic would be quite useful for the whole internet.
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Hey @freezing-whale-32835 Great work. The site looks amazing and very well laid out! Congratulations! 🙂 Navigation and Information Architecture becomes super important with projects like these. On a similar note, not sure if you have met @acceptable-flag-71699 from here who is building: https://learnawesome.org/topics
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Thank you @loud-glass-33663! Yes, I've met @acceptable-flag-71699, and LearnAwersome was one of the inspirations for this project.
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@delightful-evening-87447 I had checked LearnAnything as well. I think they don’t have an easy for users to contribute to the lists or upvote items. The interactive UI can work great for some people, but I think for most people, it’s just easier to browse a normal UI than what they’ve built.
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@freezing-whale-32835 I have been already using Notion Web Clipper to save links to the Notion Brain Board for writing notes, and tagging, inspired by Ankit's brain board If you allow/build import from Notion Brain Board then I would be happy to share my saved links to AwesomeHunt. :)
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@delightful-evening-87447 That sounds great! Thank you! There’s no automated way to import from Notion though. If you share it with me, I can figure out a way to assign topics for each link, and adding it to the platform.
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@freezing-whale-32835 There are lots of links, tagged and untagged, not just for learning but for casually reading about anything interesting. Doing it manually doesn't make sense, once you automate it, I will import it from Notion. For now, if you want to assign topics for each link and add them to the platform, you can take Ankit's brain board as an example and also check Deep_reads for interesting articles and tag them. Matter and Readup are the best resources to read about anything and everything, but need to figure out ways to import from them and also from Notion.
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@delightful-evening-87447Alright, that makes sense! I’ll see if I can automate from Notion. These are useful resources, thank you! Automating imports from various sources with quality data that’s tagged properly is challenging though!
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BTW @loud-glass-33663, I rewrote LearnAwesome as a pure-Javascript, no-server app: https://learndb.vercel.app/ using SvelteJS which was a lot of fun and will be super easy to deploy and develop.
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Saving this!