Now how did AngularHunt happen ?

By now you must be wondering how did AngularHunt come about. Okay, I think it’s the right time to disclose this.

While we were working on these projects we were excited about reaching to the community. We used to literally plan it in our free time about how to reach as many developers as possible so that we could get maximum feedback.

We knew AngularExpo was a decent platform to reach the community. We noticed projects which got featured on this platform got good feedback. Keeping that in mind we tried to reach the admin in every way possible. Of course this happened after we failed to get any attention through the usual way of submitting projects via google form.

After many(3 I guess) emails I got a response stating quality reasons for not featuring the projects on AngularExpo. We were confused since these projects have more than 100 stars and people don’t hate them if not love them dearly. Anyways, we were sure it was not quality for which our projects got rejected. I don’t wanna waste time into what those reasons could be and how fair they were.

Hence, AngularHunt was born out of frustration.

AngularHunt Inspired from Producthunt

On AngularHunt you could rate, discuss(coming soon) and checkout open source angular projects.

We believe we should have least control over what get’s featured, so we are relying on the Upvote count(more robust algorithm in future coming soon) and we are going to use them to surface best projects which developers like and not the one’s that we like or think are the best(for selfish reasons). We’ll be adding provision for discussions(comments) on projects which would help in discussions where creators can discuss with the community just like ProductHunt.

Above all this project is written in Angular (currently 4.0.0), and open source on Github. We are using firebase for hosting front-end and deployed fully on firebase itself. We’ll also be using Firebase cloud functions to handle business login very soon.

Community Help

We do these projects for fun, these projects happen in the free time that we have after we are done with our regular work angular consulting.

This is where we are seeking community help for AngularHunt.

There are many ways to contribute to this project. I am listing them with most important contribution at the top.

Mobile responsiveness(currently it does not look good on mobile)

Test cases

Layout glitches and fixes

Bug reporting

We’ll be more than happy to list your name/link in our README and give credits. It’s a nice opportunity for developers who want to experience how open source works or get more experience with this technology or just to connect with cool people and teams.

Looking forward to some cool community contributions and as always feedback.

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