New season of building in public!
Want to upvote or downvote people's suggestions?
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Building hypecp.com - 01 - Public suggestions
So, I have been doing conversations with people for the last, that's what sort of what this whole season was about, and that I have just loved. I have had so much fun with it, much more than I expected. I was able to talk to people I never really expected to be able to, you know, just creators of these different frameworks and a bunch of, you know, hypermedia-focused people, building stuff, building companies, working with people, so that was awesome. And I probably have more to say about that, I kind of want to put my thoughts together on it. But I think that I'm going to end the season of that. I'm still going to do some conversations, I actually have a couple lined up, one with the person who does unpolly, JS, and another with someone else who's been building their application using HTMLX. So like, I'm just going to keep doing those whenever. But I think, you know, I've been talking about doing this hypeCP page, which was originally HTMLX Labs. I've changed the name to hypeCP, hype copy and paste, mentioned that before, but hypeCP.com. So I'm going to start building that. I just made some updates to it. And right now it's still just that suggestions box. But I have received more suggestions than I expected and comments and like just really nice things that people have said and some really good suggestions about what they want to see, what might be on the site. Some of them I am definitely going to use. And as I was kind of looking through them, I was realizing that they're, right now they're just for me, you know, and I really appreciate that. But I am wondering if there's a place for these comments to be part of the site. And I don't want to just take some, you know, someone sent me a private message. You know, I don't want to just broadcast that to the internet without permission. So I just made an update to hypeCP.com where along with your suggestion, there's now a checkbox to make it public and also another checkbox to anonymize it so that if you want to, you know, put a suggestion out there and what I'm thinking I'm going to do, and this is all like, I'm still just kind of working this out, but I'm going to be building this in public. So what I'm going to do is put those suggestions up if people check off the public option. And then there's also an anonymize option. So, you know, if you want to make your suggestion public, but not attach your name to it, maybe you don't want your name on the internet for whatever, whatever your reasons are, I just want to give you the option to stay anonymous. So you can make it public, but keep it anonymous or you can just make it public. And I will, you know, put it up with a name next to it, a link if you have a social. I won't share your email. I'm still, I also separated the name email and social. I just think that makes a little more sense if I'm actually going to try to like sort out what people posted and, you know, maybe someday if you add your email, I could email you or something like that. I haven't quite figured out that part of it. But for now, there's a slightly updated form and if you make a suggestion now, I'm not going to retroactively make the other suggestions public. So if you've already made a suggestion, but you'd rather have a public one too, you know, feel free to add the same one again and just check off public. But my thinking with that is that I can show them and maybe even do like an upvote, upvote, I'm probably not downvote, that doesn't, that doesn't feel, I don't know, maybe a downvote too just for fun. But basically just make those suggestions something that is interactive and that people can see, oh, here's what other people are suggesting. I like that idea. I like that idea. And you know, the goal of this is to make something that has a bunch of examples, but also to kind of shape it publicly. That's what the kind of build in public. I've never done this before. I've never built anything in public. I haven't done much in public. So the work I do is just private programming for myself or for other companies. So I'm going to make that public and or, you know, that's live right now. So this is going to be the new season. I'm kicking it off right now, Thanksgiving breaks coming up. So I'm probably not going to do much over Thanksgiving the next few days, but I am still going to be doing the conversations because I find those fun and interesting and, you know, probably just kind of pepper those in here and there. They're also time consuming, you know, like the editing and the, not that I do a ton of editing, but, you know, I have to schedule it with people and set it up and get the video posted on YouTube. Posting on YouTube actually has been has been really interesting and cool. There's kind of a, you know, I get a lot of comments on YouTube and it's funny thing about the podcast is like there's no comment section on podcasts. So there's, you know, it's not the same sort of feedback on that you go on the YouTube and there's like some of these videos have like 50 comments and stuff. And these are just the same things I'm posting on the podcast, you know, but with a video. So anyway, starting off the new season, still going to do conversations, but now we're building hype CP. I'm building hype CP in public. The first step of building it is putting, updating the form, making public suggestions. And then I'm going to at some point incorporate those so that people who go to hype CP can see the public suggestions, add their own upvote, maybe downvote, we'll see. So that's just the updates and welcome to season five. That's it. Have a good one. Bye. [MUSIC]