This post is rather peak irony given that your very first post on Hacker News is basically soliciting feedback. Your karma is ONE and you seemingly have never participated in any other threads or given feedback to anyone else yourself.
I take a little time out of my day each week to browse "Show New" and offer some constructive feedback. I wish others would do the same, but c’est la vie.
As for your idea there have been a few attempts at this in the past, usually in smaller more intimate settings. I’m part of a private Discord with only about a dozen other devs who do exactly this, but we all know each other, so there’s a camaraderie that encourages everyone to share and give feedback.
Fair point about the irony. Posting here before participating much isn't exactly practicing what I'm preaching.
The Discord example you mentioned is interesting though. A lot of the good feedback exchanges I've seen seem to happen in small private groups where people know each other, like friend groups.
The thing I'm trying to figure out is whether something like that dynamic can work with strangers if the incentives are structured correctly. My small experiment pairing devs up seemed promising, but it's obviously a tiny sample size.
I myself browse through new reddit posts to check out new projects and give them feedback to, and used this account to share this project and spark a discussion, though it is fair that it seems ironic with a single karma on my side.
> The thing I'm trying to figure out is whether something like that dynamic can work with strangers if the incentives are structured correctly. My small experiment pairing devs up seemed promising, but it's obviously a tiny sample size.
It's hard to say honestly - building a system with proper incentives that simultaneously isn't abusable by bad actors is going to be tricky.
FWIW, I do agree with you - I occasionally checkout r/playmygame or r/SideProject and as somebody who also builds a lot of apps, it's depressing to see the number of posts that fail to elicit even a single response.
True, responses are rarely seen, and when they are seen they are bland "Looks good" type of feedback. Difficult to encourage feedback, and even more difficult to encourage good feedback.
Experimenting displayed improved feedback when given a proper structure. I guess it is rewarding to people when they see feedback they hope for get implemented. Though the feedback-loop is something that rarely occurs.
This post is rather peak irony given that your very first post on Hacker News is basically soliciting feedback. Your karma is ONE and you seemingly have never participated in any other threads or given feedback to anyone else yourself.
I take a little time out of my day each week to browse "Show New" and offer some constructive feedback. I wish others would do the same, but c’est la vie.
As for your idea there have been a few attempts at this in the past, usually in smaller more intimate settings. I’m part of a private Discord with only about a dozen other devs who do exactly this, but we all know each other, so there’s a camaraderie that encourages everyone to share and give feedback.
Fair point about the irony. Posting here before participating much isn't exactly practicing what I'm preaching.
The Discord example you mentioned is interesting though. A lot of the good feedback exchanges I've seen seem to happen in small private groups where people know each other, like friend groups.
The thing I'm trying to figure out is whether something like that dynamic can work with strangers if the incentives are structured correctly. My small experiment pairing devs up seemed promising, but it's obviously a tiny sample size.
I myself browse through new reddit posts to check out new projects and give them feedback to, and used this account to share this project and spark a discussion, though it is fair that it seems ironic with a single karma on my side.
> The thing I'm trying to figure out is whether something like that dynamic can work with strangers if the incentives are structured correctly. My small experiment pairing devs up seemed promising, but it's obviously a tiny sample size.
It's hard to say honestly - building a system with proper incentives that simultaneously isn't abusable by bad actors is going to be tricky.
FWIW, I do agree with you - I occasionally checkout r/playmygame or r/SideProject and as somebody who also builds a lot of apps, it's depressing to see the number of posts that fail to elicit even a single response.
True, responses are rarely seen, and when they are seen they are bland "Looks good" type of feedback. Difficult to encourage feedback, and even more difficult to encourage good feedback.
Experimenting displayed improved feedback when given a proper structure. I guess it is rewarding to people when they see feedback they hope for get implemented. Though the feedback-loop is something that rarely occurs.
EDIT: Grammar fixes