Expected Word documents. Relieved when I saw it’s Markdown.

HN will be HN. Thank you for that!

This is very cool! Would love to see a set of template legal documents on there too someday, something like Basecamp's https://github.com/basecamp/policies

i actually wrote that down as side project idea yesterday! glad to see someone doing it.

i have a different set of documents in mind though. my list is more developer oriented. here's the kind i wanted:

- project readme (from simple to very involved)

- pull requests

- open source licenses (i think GitHub does this right?)

- code of conduct

- code testing template

- benchmarks

i also bookmarked these links:

https://embeddedartistry.com/templates

https://www.sans.org/security-resources/policies (this one is an old one i had not sure how i even stumble upon it...)

For whatever reason, my brain immediately pictured the Code of Conduct written in BASIC:

    10 RESPECT OTHERS
    20 BE CIVIL
    20 RESPECT COMPANY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
    30 GOTO 10

Thank you, I can totally see them fit in this repo. If you have specific content for any of these, please feel free to file a PR. :)

pitch deck : https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/

Nice one, could probably convert it to a Markdown format as well.

I particularly like the links to the basis of each template in the various sections.

>I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them

This is cool, but how many times in ones life does one need these?

Yeah definitely not every week, but it's nice to have a single reference to go to the moment that you need them.

This could grow into an awesome-document-templates list..

Indeed and I would love to see what people have been using.

I hope it does

Thank you for putting this together. I'm wondering if you were to use these, what the order of operations for a product would be? Maybe Product Opportunity Assessment > Product Vision > Product Requirements?

Hi Kostas, Great idea to pull this together. A bunch of us tech writers have had a similar idea, and have banded together to create the key standard templates for tech projects - focusing initially on the core open-source documents required. Still early days for us, but we have put an alpha 0.1 release out. Are you, or anyone else reading, interested in getting involved.

https://thegooddocsproject.dev/

If interested, you can reach me at cameron D O T shorter AT gm ail . com

roadmaps : https://usefyi.com/templates/roadmap-templates/

Can anyone comment on Coda? First time I've seen it - looks pretty cool.

I created this template using steve blank's book

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f8pRkNiRiG7FWYJRaylVSyoRfAX...

Much of it would work as a nested list. (org-mode user here :))

- Post-mortem

- Incident report

- Scheduled down time

Clickable link: https://github.com/kbariotis/templates

How do you know me so well

You know, this is a great idea. I've been writing slide decks since the late 80's and having a template to think about the problem first is really useful. Can't believe this never occurred to me. Thanks! I just pulled down your tech_design template and I'm going to use it this week.

[Abe Simpson Story: in the 80s/90s "Slide Decks" were called "Foils" because they were printed (by the print center) on transparencies and shown on overhead projectors.]

> were called "Foils" because they were printed (by the print center) on transparencies and shown on overhead projectors.

How does that explain them being called ‘foils’? I think you missed some part of the explanation?

Foil is a standard name for well transparent foil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(projection)

Lol that still doesn’t explain it - they’re called foils because their name is foils? That’s tautological!

It's from French feuille, for 'leaf', so it's used for all these thin film things that are leaf-thin.

Demanded an answer to his question and didn't even say thank you.

The best candidate I found for the etymology is Ozalid Viewfoil, which I can't find an image, but it sounds like the transparencies came with a photosensitive coating that would fixed to the transparency during a development step.

https://books.google.com/books?id=TZ3F1OYZdEcC&ppis=_e&lpg=R...

I'm sitting here with a blank look on my face because I realize: I have no idea WHY, it's just a term we all recited without questioning. I'm somewhat disturbed by this discovery.

This will be my new research project.

Because the slides are made from foil? Or at least they look like the are?

Perhaps it's a language thing, to me "foil" without a qualifier means exclusively aluminium foil. I'd never have called ohp acetate "foil".

I know them as "transparencies", but according to this "foils" was also common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(projection)

Made from foil? As in metal foil? But metal isn’t transparent.