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Soon launching a new project. Could you give me some early feedback?

I'm close to an MVP version of a new project: https://codestash.co/.

This is the first time I'm sharing this link, so I could really use some early feedback.

It's a platform to discover and share resources for developers. I made https://www.reactmilkshake.com/, a React boilerplate, but I couldn't find a place to share or find any other boilerplates. I started to make a list of boilerplates and decided to make an application around it.

One thing I'm not sure about is if I should add more categories (like tools, jobs, etc.) or that I should really focus on useful developer boilerplates and templates. What do you think?

Would love to hear your first thoughts about this project.

on May 1, 2020
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    Omg, that is so good, I'm totally going to use it, the UI also feels really clean and smooth. 10/10.

    Two things could be nice to improve a little:

    I opened an API and it has a like button, but when I click it, it does nothing, I suppose I can like things once I have signed up? Would be cool if there was an alert or something asking me to signup/ login.

    https://codestash.co/apis/whatsapp-business-api

    And on the signup, have to confirm the password.

    But loved the project, will keep an eye on it and share with my friends.

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      Thank you! 🙏🏻

      I’m glad you like it and I’m going to implement those improvements soon.

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    Looks good.

    I like the idea of a place to find boilerplate & kit options.

    The api list is similar to https://rapidapi.com and https://public-apis.xyz/.

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    Hi Jake,
    Firstly, the overall look and feel is excellent. As a developer myself I am interested in alot of the content here.

    A few suggestions:

    Your side bar has login and sign-up as two separate actions. Is this required? Typically it would expect to see a single call to action for both.

    Is search or filtering on your roadmap? Would love to search by name/tags or filter by most popular (likes or views)

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      Thank you!

      For now, you can only filter on tags, but I will definitely take a look at filtering on most upvotes or popularity. This will be a more useful feature as soon as there are more projects that are getting posted.

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        My apologies I missed the ability to filter via tags. A few more detailed notes:

        Styling: during filter when there is a single card present the image is not sized properly (image text is cut off)

        Filtering: If I apply multiple filter tags I can break the filtering and receive the following error: Invalid Query. 'array-contains-any' filters.

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          Thanks for letting me know!

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    I would 100% use something like this. It's just…developer candy…everywhere 😍

    Honestly, I don't have any critiques of consequence. I love that you had a vision and executed it in such mouth-watering fashion. I don't know if it fits your model, but it'd be great to have a section for snippets, UI kits, deals, etc.

    Forget Product Hunt collections. I'm gonna go live at CodeStash now.

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      Thanks! I really needed some positive feedback so I'm glad to hear you like it!

      I was actually also thinking about adding a code snippets section. And a tools section will also be cool I think, but I might need to focus on the initial version first and get some more people on the platform. But I'm having that on my roadmap!