Any web developers here? Would appreciate some feedback on my idea :)
ranktutorials - Find the best and newest tutorials
I started learning web development a few months ago, and needed a way to keep track of all the tutorials that I was following. Out of necessity I created ranktutorials.com, to not only keep track of my own tutorials, but to make a platform where everybody can post the tutorials they deemed interesting and upvote tutorials they found to be valuable. Thus, the best tutorials rise to the top.
Since web development is an ever changing field, it's important to keep up to date with the newest changes and frameworks. So with this in mind, at ranktutorials you get to see everyday a new tutorial from UX design to the latest javascript frameworks. The idea is to be able to learn something new everyday!
I would love to see, if this idea is something that would bring value to the community or if I should leave the idea be.
I appreciate every feedback/comment :)
This is a neat idea, and a nice simple site that's easy to use. I like the upvoting and categories.
It is a nightmare finding useful/in-date tutorials, so keep up the good work!
Thanks for the feedback! :)
I suggest changing the design of the logo and maby make teh design less bubbly as It does not completely go with what the wedsite does.
Will keep that in mind. Thanks for the feedback!
I'd love to see a version of this focused on CS as opposed to JS frameworks. Even in terms of web dev, it would be great to see tutorials on more foundational aspects such as HTTP, web sockets etc.
For this site, my main suggestion would be to make the voting category based, once you have enough traffic to do so. A tutorial that is great at teaching one topic may be very poor at teaching another topic that it's tagged with.
There are tutorials on websockects and such, you can either use the search bar or you can find more CS related topics under the category "theory". Appreciate the feedback though :)
Searching for
web sockets, I found one tutorial and it didn't actually cover the protocol. It just gave a simple example using Express and thewslibrary.This is the kind of tutorial I would have been looking for: https://hpbn.co/websocket/
However, such materials probably won't do well on a site dominated by JS framework tutorials. I don't think the site can be all things to all people unless maybe it takes a reddit/stack exchange kind of approach with multiple communities eventually.
Looks great! It looks like this was built using Wordpress, right? How was your experience with it?
One small note - I find it a bit confusing that when you click on the title of a tutorial you are taken to the external site of the tutorial instead of the "detail" view of that one. There also isn't much of an indication with the mousepointer that you can click on the whole row to take you to the detail view. (Edit note - I see that IH does this, maybe I expected something more Reddit like but I could be wrong.) Just my 2 cents though! I like what is there so far - I'm following the Express CRUD tutorial right now! 🤗
Thanks! :) Yes, but it's just until I gather enough feedback and then I will switch to a customized solution.
I'll keep that in mind, will definitely implement something like that in the future! I also read the tutorial on Express CRUD, was a great learning experience.
Thanks again for the feedback :)
Nice!
Can I search for multiple categories at once?
E.g. I want 'Beginner' tutorials of 'Webpack'.
Appreciate the feedback. That's definitely a feature I am considering implementing on the site.