How To Use Hacker News To Fine-Tune Your Project

A web developer tells us how he turned his two-week side project into a Hacker News discussion, where he could use feedback to decide whether his concept was actually valid and useful.

Learning to code is like learning a language: It helps to have a native explain things. For coders who are self-taught, an expert isn't always near at hand. So a 20-year-old programmer built a tool that would allow people to annotate one another's code a la Rap Genius, with far more flexibility than code-commenting usually allows.

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