[HN Gopher] Show HN: Hetchr, a Developer's Homepage
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Show HN: Hetchr, a Developer's Homepage
Author : wtbauer20
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-07-02 13:42 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hetchr.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hetchr.com)
| woleium wrote:
| sadly the site is unreadable in brave browser on Android (latest
| stable)
| ishwarn wrote:
| The fine Hetchr folks recently gave me a demo of the product,
| listened to my feedback, and more, which is greatly appreciated.
| It was refreshing to see the patience they had with me as I
| talked through my use cases, frustrations, and my thoughts on
| areas for improvement.
|
| Secondly, I've been working on bringing Hetchr into my worflow,
| specifically with Github Pull Requests and JIRA Kanban board.
| Having everything in place where I can take a quick glance to see
| how things are going is _very_ easy.
|
| I'll keep on eye on how Hetchr executes on their roadmap, on
| feedback, and responding to bugs. Best of luck, Hetchr team!
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Thanks Ishwar, I appreciate you being one of our first testers
| and giving us super in-depth feedback. Keep us updated on what
| you want to see next!
| sdfhbdf wrote:
| Hey FYI guys - your privacy policy at
| https://www.hetchr.com/privacypolicy creates a redirect loop with
| cache misses going to eu-central-1 EKS Varnish
| pqb wrote:
| This is kind of a wow moment, when I see a real product made by
| someone else that is a kind of realization of my idea I have
| drown down on paper many (11+) years ago, while I was bored in
| school. Developer portal composed of widgets - just as in good
| old Netvibes - sounds awesome. Congratulations and good luck!
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Plot twist: We found your notebook and ran with it.
|
| In all seriousness, it's really cool to hear it's something you
| thought of years ago. One day, we'd like to allow anyone to
| build their own widgets inside of Hetchr, and I hope to see one
| of yours.
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| OP here. Here's a quick summary about what we're building:
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| We centralize the main features of your everyday tools (PRs, CI,
| Kanban tasks) and build a live feed of everything happening
| within your development teams. Essentially, we aggregate a "quick
| view" of your team's development status and give you a way to
| manage tasks directly from our platform.
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| We just opened up beta testing and anyone can create an account
| here. We're still quite early, so it takes about 10 minutes to
| get your tools connected: https://preview.hetchr.com/signup
|
| Currently, we have integrated Github Issues, Github Pull
| Requests, Jira, and two native Hetchr ATOMs. Next on the list are
| CircleCI / Github Actions / Jenkins.
|
| Some additional notes if you'd like to try it out:
|
| - The only data we permanently store is your name, email, and
| authentication credential. While using Hetchr, we only collect
| and store locally the data necessary to display your workspace.
| For Jira, we access/store your project's configurations and the
| issues. For Github, we access/store your Issues and Pull
| Requests' comments (not the code). You can delete your account
| and any associated data in the setting section.
|
| - In order to install our Jira ATOM, you must be the Jira
| administrator and in order to install our Github ATOMs, you must
| be the repo owner.
|
| Thanks for taking a look! I'd love to hear your thoughts and I'm
| happy to answer questions.
|
| Here's our Slack group if you'd prefer to chat directly:
|
| https://join.slack.com/t/hetchr/shared_invite/zt-dkdiysva-Yt...
| ejoebstl wrote:
| Can you integrate AWS CodePipeline and CloudWatch?
|
| There are no good integrations, and I would love to be able to
| get a quick overview. Bonus points for nice display on mobile.
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Definitely. We're working on our priority list and will give
| these a +1.
| olah_1 wrote:
| I recommend adding more Product Manager tools like Monday,
| Smartsheets, etc. I notice that a lot of PMs have separate
| tools for managing roadmap stuff (even though Jira works for
| this too, idk).
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Definitely on our to-do list!
| groby_b wrote:
| I've guessed at that summary from the screenshots. I would've
| much appreciated it if you told me somewhere in the first three
| pages of low information density graphics I scrolled through.
|
| This misses how your audience works - pretty much every
| engineer would like to have the meat of the answer served
| first, and then you add the screenshots for corporate sales.
|
| So, thanks for explaining it here, and maybe consider adding it
| to the main page :)
| craftinator wrote:
| I usually assume landing pages are made for corporate sales,
| and skip them, going straight to the docs or other pages. I
| agree with your comment; there needs to be more meat here
| (though it seems like the public facing website is probably
| still in a beta phase).
|
| Advice for the OP: I used to make professional briefings for
| the military. The single most important part of any slideshow
| or document was the WIFM page - the Why It F**ing Matters
| page (I kid you not, that acronym was what everyone used). It
| gave a no-fluff, terse summary of why the product was
| relevant to the audience, often including a 3 sentence
| overview of the briefing, and one paragraph explaining what
| they should take away from it. Think of it like a very terse
| abstract, using the plainest language possible, very much
| like what you wrote above. For the people who need to know
| what a thing is, it's a godsend that keeps them from
| instantly moving on.
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Thanks, that's great to know. Love the Why It F*ing Matters
| page. Definitely going to make sure we get straight to the
| point.
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Thanks, I'll definitely make these changes. Appreciate it!
| dimes wrote:
| Will one be able to embed a Hetchr ATOM into Hetchr in the
| future?
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Mind elaborating? All Hetchr ATOMs are embedded into your
| workspace.
| ryanmarsh wrote:
| For folks on AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline there still isn't a
| good dashboard tool for everyone. Maybe consider some features
| for AWS teams?
| wtbauer20 wrote:
| Good call, to be honest we haven't had many requests for AWS
| Codebuild / CodePipeline. Outside of Github, most of our
| requests are for Azure Devops, Bitbucket and Gitlab. I'll
| bring it up with the team and see when/how we can implement
| them.
| dmitriid wrote:
| > OP here. Here's a quick summary about what we're building:
|
| Why isn't this summary on your page, front and center? Why
| instead there are animations, illustrations, skewed screenshots
| the size of atoms (yes, pun intended)?
|
| Spotify's Backstage suffers from many of the same issues, but
| at least it spends time explaining what it actually does:
| http://backstage.io
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