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I'm working on something similar with www.unscatter.com, though you and I are taking different approaches on clutter vs providing more context. Likes: - Layou

I'm working on something similar with www.unscatter.com, though you and I are taking different approaches on clutter vs providing more context. Likes: - Layout and design. I wish I had a better knack for that kind of thing. 48ers is a lot of what I was going for and still haven't reached as for a minimalistic approach that's also appealing the to eye. - The "Getting results" javascript is a real nice usability touch. Nice enough that honestly, would you mind if I implemented something similar when I get back to working on my own site? I prefer not to blatantly steal :) Suggestions: - It's a little slow. Not sure what your backend is, hopefully you're using something that allows you to submit all your requests at once and handle each as a callback. If you are, I would suggest benchmarking your requests to figure out which are your slowest ones and making sure you make those first. I shaved 10-30ms per uncached request by making my request to Facebook the first request I launched rather than the last, as it was the slowest API to respond. - Are you caching results? I did a search for "Epic 4g" (as I want to know when it will be coming out) and then immediately hit search again and it took a bit for that next request to load. I would really suggest you cache at least the data (as I'm doing) if not the entire results page (as I will probably move to with nginx caching modules) for x seconds/minutes and it will save you bandwidth costs, especially for those trending topics which may get a lot of concurrent hits if you app ever scales to appreciable traffic. Only question I really have is do you have a plan for advertising other than Adsense? Adsense is going to have a hard time matching ads for search result pages.

whyleym 16y ago
Thanks for taking time out to comment. As you say Unscatter seems a similar idea and we can see where you're coming from re: context. We hear you on the speed - this is what we are trying to focus on - make this a super quick, great user experience. You're right in that caching is the way to go - again it's one of those release early and iterate items. We don't presently do any caching as such so this is no doubt something we will iterate on. In terms of monetisation - for the first few months we are looking at adsense to get a feel for how contextual the ads are and what the relative click through rates will be. After this we have some ideas that we hope will work out well.

whyleym 16y ago

Thanks for taking time out to comment. As you say Unscatter seems a similar idea and we can see where you're coming from re: context. We hear you on the speed - this is what we are trying to focus on - make this a super quick, great user experience. You're right in that caching is the way to go - again it's one of those release early and iterate items. We don't presently do any caching as such so this is no doubt something we will iterate on. In terms of monetisation - for the first few months we are looking at adsense to get a feel for how contextual the ads are and what the relative click through rates will be. After this we have some ideas that we hope will work out well.