Show HN: Commento – a lightweight, tracking-free comment engine in Go

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10 points·adtac··5 comments

I just hacked this together today. Disqus is really heavy and apparently uses tons of tracking services. So I figured - why not build my own?

I've been learning Golang for the past month or so too, so this was a great excercise for me.

Holy shit, way to golang, after one month! What other "hackable" solutions are you hoping to implement in Go? Or plainly what's your next go project, and why?

Ha, thanks!

I wrote a bot for cherry-picking comments [1] a couple of weeks ago. It's mostly for a large open source community I'm a maintainer in where newcomers make multiple PRs. We have a linear git history, so we ask them to rebase. But many get stuck, so I thought I could make a bot to collect all these PRs and make a mega PR with their commits through `git cherry-pick`.

I'm also writing a SaaS email forwarding service (hush hush on the details for now ;)) in Go. Just getting started. My semester is almost over, so I'll have much more time to work on this in the vacations :)

[1] https://github.com/adtac/cherry-pick-bot

Great job! The Go code is impressive, but also I'm amazed you wrote the JS without jQuery! Very cool.

I deliberately didn't want to use jQuery so that it'll stay more lightweight :)

And thanks, Go is absolutely fun to write.

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