It seems like 10 “hot” startups hit the Web every week now. With so many, it’s hard to get excited about one (or more). Yet there is a new site about to launch, which I don’t know that it would classify as a startup per se, that I’m excited for. StackOverflow.com, a brainchild of Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, is in the works. According to Joel, StackOverflow.com will be:
…a programming Q&A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it’s just free.
I enjoy the written word of these two guys; I subscribe to their blogs’ feeds and I even purchased a copy of Joel on Software a couple of years ago. A developer community site like this could prove to be invaluable. Most developer-oriented sites are, for some lame reason, dreadful to read. Most of my information gathering consists of referencing MSDN and Google and Krugle code searches. I trust that Jeff and Joel will put together something, anything, that’s better than what’s available right now.
