[svlug] Feedback needed

[Daniel Son]

Paul Cubbage wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2007 2:27 PM, Daniel Son <dsong at meta-for.org> wrote:
>   
>> I am working on a small project that I see as a software catalog
>>     
[...]
>> something like: it sucks. If "it sucks", what it should do not to "suck").
>>
>> I know there is still lots of work to be done, but I just would like to
>> direct my work properly.
>>
>> The URL: http://www.meta-for.org
>>     
Paul, thanks for the feedback. I have similar thoughts but I still 
decided to go ahead. And the reason is that search engines often don't 
give you enough information, and most of the time you will have to spend 
too much time looking for things that you need, and often you will only 
find the most popular stuff, which does not necessarily reflect what is 
actually available. I have decided to work on something like this out of 
the frustration with using search engines for this purpose, and I have 
spent too much time just searching. So, I am trying to provide a simple 
way for people to find what their choices are. Lots of manual entry 
though, and sometimes it takes hours to add only a few products. But at 
the end of the day, if this effort will ever someone's life easier, I 
will consider that I have not spent all this time working on this 
resource for nothing.  Again, I really appreciate your feedback.

D

> Nice site!  Admirable ambition.
>
> What would you provide that is better, and more current, than forums
> and  a search engine?  A lot of things like this were done in the
> earlier web days and most if not all are gone.  They depended on user
> input and filled a need before search engines took off.
>
> In any case, you will have an issue of currency as your volunteers
> disappear (graduate).
>
> I don't want to step on your ideas and maybe you have lightening in a
> bottle but think a little about the effort involved and who it would
> reach.
>
> Vaja con Dios
>   


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