Please review my Start-Up VersionEye: https://www.versioneye.com/. I would like to know what you think about the idea. How do you like the landing page? Any ideas for improvements? Your feedback is appreciated.
VersionEye allows you to follow software libraries and talk shop with other developers.
This should be up there in the top, slightly re-formated to something like:
"Follow software libraries and discuss their progress with other developers"
Ditch the whole "it's like this and this for that"
Never lock yourself into other peoples definitions and never assume people know what yelp or twitter is (unless your product is an extension of those services)
I like what I think you do, but I agree with the other people here, add some more concrete explanations of what it is VersionEye does.
1) I searched for "zlib" which is something I needed recently for Python. zlib comes built in to Python, but I think you could include it in your results anyways since it's kind of a toss up what comes prepackaged and what doesn't.
2) I tried to filter and the filters cleared and showed me the old results again.
Good luck, I think it's a really great idea. I search for different packages like this all the time, and it's a PAIN.
I put zlib on my ToDo list. I just saw that the language filter is broken. Sorry for that. Tomorrow it will be fixed. Up to them. You can just add "lang=Python" to the URL, to make it work. I will write a RSpec for that.
I know that it is pain to search for packages on Google. Because there is just to much noise on Google.
Many Thanks for your Feedback. I will continue to improve it.
I found out about what it did by sheer luck, because I scrolled down enough to see the description. Also, what's the graph on the front page? It doesn't change no matter what I do.
Thank you for your feedback. Was the search field not clear enough? The graph is the dependency graph for Ruby on Rails. It's standing below the the graph. You can click on the nodes. But if that wasn't clear to you, I have to change the landing page.
Well, I saw the graph and expected that I could plot dependencies for arbitrary packages, but looking a bit more revealed that it's a site for staying up to date on new packages. I don't know how I can plot the dependencies of other papackages, or how that ties into the app...
In the login are you can upload your gem file and VersionEye is showing which of your gems are outdated. The dependency graphs for your own projects is coming soon. Also an embed button, so that you can embed the graphs into your own pages.
Also, for actual usage feedback, it sounds useful but I'm not sure if I'd use it, as I generally just install packages at the start of a project and leave them at that version unless I feel like upgrading or y have bugs.
Yes. I know what you mean. I worked the same way, long time. But then I thought it would be nice to get notified about new versions. And that's why I build this tool. The idea is to have links on the versioneye pages to changelogs and bugfixes. So that it helps you to stay up to date and secure.
You are right. I am not google. I thought that the search field and the language icons would be clear. But if not I will add some description. Thank you for you feedback.
OK. It's a search engine for Software Developers. You can find Libraries and additional information. And you can follow your Libraries to get notified about new versions.
How would you design the landing page for that?
This should be up there in the top, slightly re-formated to something like:
"Follow software libraries and discuss their progress with other developers"
Ditch the whole "it's like this and this for that"
Never lock yourself into other peoples definitions and never assume people know what yelp or twitter is (unless your product is an extension of those services)