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good question, going through these ideas I keep in mind: "The winds of change originate in the unconscious minds of domain experts. If you're sufficiently exper

good question, going through these ideas I keep in mind: "The winds of change originate in the unconscious minds of domain experts. If you're sufficiently expert in a field, any weird idea or apparently irrelevant question that occurs to you is ipso facto worth exploring." [0] 1/ So the idea I haven't done is build a hacker search engine. I'm not sure what this would look like, but I'd bet being able to search through source code at high/low levels might be interesting. 2/ Another idea is I noted on the the Amazon/NES classic thread, arbitrage by Amazon/users resulting in instant sellout. Could this idea be used somehow? [0] http://paulgraham.com/ecw.html http://paulgraham.com/ecw.html

findjashua 10y ago
something like sourcegraph?
- bootload 10y ago
  "sourcegraph" dunno, haven't looked at this, will do. Having access to any public source code would be interesting to find ^canonical^ examples. I know where this does't happen, cough stack overflow cough
  - sqs 10y ago
    Sourcegraph CEO here. Sourcegraph shows local and global usage examples for code. It's useful for understanding unfamiliar code or writing better, idiomatic code more quickly. https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com To see how we built it and future plans, check out https://sourcegraph.com/plan https://sourcegraph.com/plan.
    - bootload 10y ago
      "Sourcegraph show local and global usage examples for code. It's useful for understanding unfamiliar code or writing better, idiomatic code more quickly." ~ https://sourcegraph.com/plan https://sourcegraph.com/plan Great, will do.
Animats 10y ago
being able to search through source code at high/low levels might be interesting. It was called "Google Code Search". 2005-2013. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
- bootload 10y ago
  yeah I saw that. Was/is it any good? Is that all hackers search for? I'll take a look at this. Might be some gaps I might find interesting.

findjashua 10y ago

something like sourcegraph?

bootload 10y ago
"sourcegraph" dunno, haven't looked at this, will do. Having access to any public source code would be interesting to find ^canonical^ examples. I know where this does't happen, cough stack overflow cough
- sqs 10y ago
  Sourcegraph CEO here. Sourcegraph shows local and global usage examples for code. It's useful for understanding unfamiliar code or writing better, idiomatic code more quickly. https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com To see how we built it and future plans, check out https://sourcegraph.com/plan https://sourcegraph.com/plan.
  - bootload 10y ago
    "Sourcegraph show local and global usage examples for code. It's useful for understanding unfamiliar code or writing better, idiomatic code more quickly." ~ https://sourcegraph.com/plan https://sourcegraph.com/plan Great, will do.

Animats 10y ago

being able to search through source code at high/low levels might be interesting. It was called "Google Code Search". 2005-2013. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

bootload 10y ago
yeah I saw that. Was/is it any good? Is that all hackers search for? I'll take a look at this. Might be some gaps I might find interesting.