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Comment by hsikka | Hacker News Reader

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Hey folks! I just spent the past two days building LearnSearch, a web app where you can share learning resources and upvote the ones that help you or are valuable in someway. I asked a lot of people what they wished they knew when they started self teaching or learning something new, and the feedback was always that they wish they could tell the good resources from the ones that lead them astray, and that others were vital in letting them know about this. I wanted to make this same interaction scaleable, so I built LearnSearch! LearnSearch is still in its early, early infancy, and I'm going to continue to build out different feeds, comments, and other cool features. I'd love for you guys to take a look and let me know what you think!

I haven't slept all night, so gonna take a quick snooze ;)

Nice!

Will you be adding something like a categories tag?

Any initial feedback on using Cloud Firestore you'd want to share? [Good | Bad]

Oh yeah, I'm going to be adding a lot, I really just wanted to get something out there to stay motivated and get people's feedback. I'm actually probably going to add a roadmap or feature suggestion component soon. It's my first time building something like this, so I'm pretty new to managing user interest LOL

Dude, Firestore is pretty sweet. It can be opened with a realtime connection, and works just like Mongo. The only thing is that the way the queries are handled is a little weird, and they don't necessarily return static data. The query options may return some methods that you have to call, and really read the documentation in order to wrap your head around how to grab what you thought should have been a simple JSON object.

That being said, it is in Beta, so I knew there would be documentation issues going in. I think it will be a fantastic tool going forward, and its worth building something small on it to play around with right now.

TLDR: [GOOD], but needs some improvements

Thanks for your feedback by the way, I really appreciate it :)

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