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Show HN: Hypewatching – crowdsourced, geolocated trends around the world
- sunsetMurk 9y agoNeat - I'll need to play with it some more. Any plans to auto-import data so you don't need to rely on people inputing 'what' , 'where' , 'why' ? eg. recent facebook/twitter/browsing history. What's the stack look like?
- toomasb 9y agoThanks :) I feel like it will only become useful if lots of people start using it. For example now local trends show up on the "worldwide" page, which won't happen anymore once there's enough input. I'm thinking about how to automate this input process but currently I don't see an easy way of doing it. That info is not freely available anywhere. Stack is Python/Flask/Javascript/JQuery/MySQL/SQLAlchemy/Bootstrap
- yosito 9y agoCool concept. Do you plan to ingest data from anywhere other than manual user input?
- toomasb 9y agoDef thinking about it but not sure how. Maybe Twitter API. Google trends does not have a public API I believe. Other than that I'm planning to reward people based on their predictions of what could become a trend. The earlier they are and the bigger the trend the more points they get. Then votes from these people would weigh more in the algorithm which could potentially increase the accuracy and also incentivise people to input data :)
- toomuchtodo 9y agoYou might consider consuming the Reddit API to identify certain trends.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>Maybe Twitter API Perhaps it has changed since I used it last, but Twitter's API will give you a very limited amount of data unless you're prepared to fork over the big bucks.
- toomasb 9y agotrue, I completely forgot about that. Twitter is out then, maybe Reddit API as someone else suggested :) I'll look into it.
- dajohnson89 9y agoLet's talk, I might be able to help you out.
- toomasb 9y agosure! email me at boogaerts.thomas@gmail.com
- send_computers 9y agoDeez nuts is trending big in the US
- toomasb 9y agoI'll be enabling recaptcha soon ;)
- send_computers 9y agoNow it's big in Ireland
- Fifer82 9y agoDeez Nuts are big Worldwide
- bpicolo 9y agoAs a food product, even
- Fifer82 9y agoThis is cool, I added some hot celebs because I am shallow. It is quite open to abuse though and how can this be addressed I wonder? (There is a url in the celebs). Thanks for sharing.
- toomasb 9y agoFor now, manual moderation against the trolls, recaptcha against bots. I realise it's quite open to abuse right now.
- Fifer82 9y agoA pity it has to be that way.
- regularhackerer 9y agoJust paywall it, or require a Facebook account to sign in first. That way you get the exact audience you want. ;)
- sladix 9y agoAaaand it's down
- daxaxelrod 9y agoGreat start! I like the heatmap.
- stefantheard 9y agoInteresting, but what is the incentive to contribute?
- toomasb 9y agoCurrently not much, that will be one of the challenges. Later on – gamification, how well are you at predicting upcoming trends in certain cities/categories.
- stefantheard 9y agoYeah, that would be my first thought as well. It seems like a challenge to attach users to something like this when it exists outside of an application they already use (eg. Facebook et al). I would be interested in an update down the line to see if you are able to capture regular usage and how you did it.
- weego 9y agoWould over-incentivising lead to more scatter-gun contribution and make the real trends hard to surface?
- toomasb 9y agoYou'd probably have to limit the allowed number of "guesses" per day/week. But even then there's a risk of people trying to game the system (creating multiple accounts etc)
- newman8r 9y agoNice straightforward UX. My first thought was to search for some trends about weather (everyone's talking about how hot it's going to be in southern california today) - but I didn't see that category. So I'd suggest to consider including a section about weather/natural phenomena.
- k2xl 9y agoSeems interesting, nice interface. But why would I use this then google trends?
- cracell 9y agoI like the idea but was expecting it to pull data from various sources like Twitter instead of just showing what people enter into it.
- k__ 9y agoSame here, entered Germany and didn't get much results
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoEbenso.
- mwill 9y agoSeems to already be filling up with jokes and memes.