My general idea is to consolidate the places you need to go to find the latest dev-related things, whether that's third party API changes, package updates, language updates, etc. It could be also salaries in your area, job postings, etc. But I don't know exactly what to do or where to start, and I figured I might get some good feedback from HN readers on what they would expect/hope to find from that domain, as well as what pains you experience trying to "keep up" with the latest.
Also, I'm a web dev so things are frequently changing in my field, curious if the need is felt beyond that.
For example, looking at Android there are a load of blog posts, docs and libraries but lots are irrelevant now if coming at it fresh in 2020 — it's hard to tell which are obsolete unless you've got all the historic background though.
Was thinking something à la Stack Overflow / Reddit voting might be enough to keep the best practices fresh. It's the type of thing you'd think they could cover but would likely get closed as "resource requests" there unfortunately.
Feels like a missing piece of the puzzle for me in modern web-dev, especially when moving between fields.
(EDIT: typos / formatting / clarity)
As a user, I can follow news related to projects/other users.
As a project owner, I can build a following.
They change so fast with new offerings all the time. Would be nice to have one central clearinghouse. Minimal interface, sans javascript and marketing cruft
Best of luck ;)
Given Name it basically has to be live and rss seems like best fit