Yhn SportBaseball first seen 1 d ago, last 51 min ago, peak #2
Developer paid strangers to test his README instructions
Original: I paid people to try and follow my README
A developer has paid people to attempt to follow his project's README from scratch, then shared what broke. The exercise highlights how often setup instructions fail real users, with commenters swapping their own tales of unusable documentation and debating whether projects should routinely pay testers to walk through docs before release.
Why now: It resonates because almost everyone has hit confusing README instructions, and paying testers to expose the gaps is a fresh, practical idea.
shkspr.mobiTerence EdenREADMEopen source software
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- I paid people to try and follow my README · edent · 419
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