Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?

If you could hand one of your unfinished projects to a stranger tomorrow, what's the one thing you'd want them to know first? Mine would be "the clever part is also the part that breaks."

5 points | by toddy_flogsit 17 hours ago

6 comments

  • Northernator11 5 hours ago
    The project is in great shape my codex and claude chats are a mess.
  • harishbala 8 hours ago
    It’ll make sure agents automatically deployed will be much more secure than otherwise.
  • Gtex555 14 hours ago
    I thought about a website like Hackertube over 10 years ago, but everyone is missing the important lesson:

    Quality cannot be automated in content creation.

  • boricj 16 hours ago
    Professional project? Try not to screw up or the banks of lead-acid batteries might catch fire and/or explode.

    Personal project? Take all that you've learned in CS 101 and throw it into the trashbin; welcome to Mad Max-driven development, where ABIs are but a suggestion and you might accidentally end up presenting a poster at ACM CCS as a hobbyist (true story).

  • austin-cheney 15 hours ago
    It features the fastest WebSocket library ever written, which means lower costs across the board.