Ask HN: How do I get feedback?

3 points by ryan21030 11 years ago | 6 comments

Hi, so I've made a templating engine that I am quite proud of and I'm sure that a few people will also like it but I have no idea of how to get feedback from people on what they'd like in it so that I can improve it. I've got feedback from a few colleges but I'm finding it hard to get anything else. I want to know what I can add to it to improve it for the whole programming community. Any ideas on how I can get this user feedback? Thanks

Cheeky link to it if anyone wants to check it out - https://github.com/DrRoach/templator

twunde 11 years ago |

Here are a few ideas 1) Contact members of the php community through social media 2) Present it at your local php/tech meetups 3) Contact authors of PHP Weekly, SitePoint, Nettuts, etc

ryan21030 11 years ago | |

There aren't many places near me that hold things like tech meetups unfortunately but I'm definitely going to try out your other two suggestions

S4M 11 years ago |

I don't use PHP, so sadly I can't use it, but after reading the description, it seems very similar to Jinja (http://jinja.pocoo.org). Were you aware of that templating engine? I use it and like it a lot, and if I have to use PHP in the future I will certainly try yours.

ryan21030 11 years ago | |

I've never used or seen jinja before but it definitely has a few features that I'm thinking of adding like block so thanks for the link. Thanks for giving mine a chance too!

fiatjaf 11 years ago |

Post it on reddit.

ryan21030 11 years ago | |

What subreddit would you suggest?