Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck
Love it, I hadn't seen it yet. I've been trying to handle links to tutorials, links I find while reading tutorials, resources that might be useful later when I'm already familiar with what I'm trying to learn, and it was clumsy. Tried Delicious, Kippt etc, but a focused service is much better—and more likely to have good links from other users.
Already found some interesting tutorials and posts while searching for something I intend to start learning this month. Thank you.
Addendum: a problem I've found while trying to find good learning material is that of the unknown unknowns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns): when you're starting out, you don't know what you have to learn yet. Maybe guides that tell you what you have to learn, in what order... A way of letting the user organize tutorials that lets the user "patch" holes in their knowledge by adding other tutorials, or revisiting some tutorials... Well, this is beyond the scope of Pineapple, but it's an interesting problem to think about.
I saw the image of a million bookmarks as the problem it sought to solve, which is great. So I bookmarked it.
My site was submitted 1 year ago, and I have since made an awful lot of updates. There will be a ton of gems on here that you will find, I assure you of that!
TallboyOne is a good curator. That makes the site worthwhile.
I've been following this site for a little while now, it's turned into a great resource for me and I've really enjoyed watching it come along. Nice job.
Looks great. I've been kicking around a similar idea for a few years but never got around to building it.
A platform for ranking the best resources to learn anything and everything would be amazing. You could then have "verified experts" in the field help curate tracks and syllabi on top of that information that users could then follow like a regular college major plan.
I see the inclusion of paid tutorials. In the interest of your claim of only including things "that don't suck", have all of these been curated and reviewed? Does the tutorial provider give you free access to give it a proper review? Or is this just a list of tutorials, and the Reddit style votes will determine what sucks and what doesn't?
I've been using this site since the OP posted it in a web design subreddit. I've found this site to be very helpful.
Nice!
Why aren't the resources tagged "ruby on rails" also tagged "rails" and "RoR"? People will try searches on various tags, not just the first tag you thought of. Maybe you allow users to tag the content, but maybe I arrive at the site just wanting to search and find what I searched for.
A few minor things, which might be worth considering.
1. Changing from standard view to compact view clears the search.
2. Some sorting when doing 'text-based search' would also be nice.
3. What does 'All time'-sorting do? Is think it's the top rated entries, but I am not sure.
I came up with the same idea recently, only I wanted to build it around StackOverflow, but this is much, much better :D
A note: You should separate profile and favorites pages, I don't like watching my own face all the time :D It would be more useful if favorites would get more space.
There's also: http://www.agiledesigners.com/
And my own http://thetoolbox.cc (although it's not really being kept up to date at the moment)
Are the tags user created? One thing I've learned through experience is user created tags are almost universally useless (this is especially true when the service gets popular, and people start adding completely false tags to content, in hopes of garnering more attention).
Nice site. I think the only thing that I would like to see is the name of the site as well as the page title, so that I can see if there are multiple tutorials from the same site. Thanks for the collection, I'll be sure to use it when searching for learning material.
Awesome work! I'll start adding some links that I've been saving for myself.
I really like this idea. In a way, it is like a wiki, but tubular and tagged.
How did you come up with the name Pineapple? it gives off such a nice aura.
I love the concept. It's like a reddit for tutorials.
When I search for c#, the first three results have nothing to do with c#. I think it's searching for "c" internally.
Very neat concept, glad to see it moving along well. Do you have any plans or ideas on monetization or is it just a hobby for you?
I think by default it should sort by "all time" instead of "what's hot". But that's just me.
Ironically I added this to my sea of bookmarks =(
I need one more vote to hit a magical 100 :]
I love pineapple. dude your a genius!
BTW, the tag cloud at the bottom of the page is unclickable...clicking on a tag name doesn't do anything.
the jiggling logo is annoying...