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Show HN: StartupGuild Hackethon - Yammer API + Gmaps API - Member Locator

23 points by jv22222 16y ago

BDavol 16y ago
Great mashup, love that yammer supports json in their api
awulf 16y ago
I think it should be mentioned that the map shows the locations of the members of the StartupGuild, based on the location field in their profile. Members who have not supplied a location (or entered something like "Down at the beach"), obviously don't appear on the map. According to Martin, who created the map, the data is updated (via a cronjob) once per hour.
stylejam 16y ago
I'm apparently the only one from Seattle.
mbrochh 16y ago
Martin here. That is true. Polling the yammer API for retrieving all members is quite slow, also polling Googles geolocation API for getting lat/lng coordinates from address strings is slow and the rate limit would be exceeded in no time if I did it in real-time. Therefore I scheduled a cronjob to update the database every hour. The yammer API gives 50 users per request, with our 500 members (and still growing rapidly) I need 10 requests already, each taking around a second or two. Polling the Google geolocation API is even slower, but since I save all results and since everyone seems to live in New York (*g), I rarely have to poll it any more. Oh. This is my first post on HN. Being a daily reader since about 2 years I think. Awesome site with awesome content! Definetly changed my life :)
- mbrochh 16y ago
  I built this because I wanted to know if there are any other Entrepreneurs near my place in Singapore. I never used OAuth before and I never leveraged any well known API before (like Facebook or Twitter). Usually I use Python/Django for all my web projects but I felt that a full blown Django stack would be overkill here. So I googled for "python mini web framework" and eventually found "web.py". With the help of the tutorial I got a prototype running quickly (3 hours or so). Another 10 hours have been consumed by the creation of my hourly database-updater (a simple Python script). Another 5 hours were killed by the creation of the client side JavaScript and all those pitfalls when it comes to asynchronous programming, callbacks and closures. I guess around 2 hours went into HTML/CSS issues. Ah one more thing: I would probably have given up half way without this neat python-jammer-oauth project on github: https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth
- mhat 16y ago
  Chances are we can help you. Mind posting what you need from the API to the Yammer Developer Network or opening a support ticket?
  - mbrochh 16y ago
    Opened a feature request ticket... tried to get into the Yammer Developer Network a week ago but it seems as if my application does not get approved...

23 points by jv22222 16y ago

Great mashup, love that yammer supports json in their api

awulf 16y ago

I think it should be mentioned that the map shows the locations of the members of the StartupGuild, based on the location field in their profile. Members who have not supplied a location (or entered something like "Down at the beach"), obviously don't appear on the map. According to Martin, who created the map, the data is updated (via a cronjob) once per hour.

stylejam 16y ago

I'm apparently the only one from Seattle.

mbrochh 16y ago

Martin here. That is true. Polling the yammer API for retrieving all members is quite slow, also polling Googles geolocation API for getting lat/lng coordinates from address strings is slow and the rate limit would be exceeded in no time if I did it in real-time. Therefore I scheduled a cronjob to update the database every hour. The yammer API gives 50 users per request, with our 500 members (and still growing rapidly) I need 10 requests already, each taking around a second or two. Polling the Google geolocation API is even slower, but since I save all results and since everyone seems to live in New York (*g), I rarely have to poll it any more. Oh. This is my first post on HN. Being a daily reader since about 2 years I think. Awesome site with awesome content! Definetly changed my life :)

mbrochh 16y ago
I built this because I wanted to know if there are any other Entrepreneurs near my place in Singapore. I never used OAuth before and I never leveraged any well known API before (like Facebook or Twitter). Usually I use Python/Django for all my web projects but I felt that a full blown Django stack would be overkill here. So I googled for "python mini web framework" and eventually found "web.py". With the help of the tutorial I got a prototype running quickly (3 hours or so). Another 10 hours have been consumed by the creation of my hourly database-updater (a simple Python script). Another 5 hours were killed by the creation of the client side JavaScript and all those pitfalls when it comes to asynchronous programming, callbacks and closures. I guess around 2 hours went into HTML/CSS issues. Ah one more thing: I would probably have given up half way without this neat python-jammer-oauth project on github: https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth
mhat 16y ago
Chances are we can help you. Mind posting what you need from the API to the Yammer Developer Network or opening a support ticket?
- mbrochh 16y ago
  Opened a feature request ticket... tried to get into the Yammer Developer Network a week ago but it seems as if my application does not get approved...