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Show HN: weekend project, Find Similar Restaurants with the Hunch API

32 points by handler 15y ago

udfalkso 15y ago
Nice.
thomasec 15y ago
dig it
ernestipark 15y ago
Nice. Bug: when i have the dropdown for "what I'm homesick for" but hit discover, the dropdown stays over the new overlay.
- handler 15y ago
  thanks for pointing that out. will investigate and forward to jQuery UI.
martinshen 15y ago
I like it a lot. I had a similar idea to do this with Wine.
dibsonthenerdy1 15y ago
Very nice! I am not familiar with hunch's api. Could you share some internals on how you leveraged that?
- handler 15y ago
  hunch gives recommendations about pretty much everything, you can check out their api here: http://hunch.com/developers/v1/ http://hunch.com/developers/v1/ i am specifically using "get-similar-results" and "get-recommendations" limited by the location you enter
will_lam 15y ago
Awesome work. Did you show this to Yelp as well to get their API limit increased?
- handler 15y ago
  no, thats a good idea lemme look into it
rokhayakebe 15y ago
If you could build this for movies (and it works) I would pay 5 usd/year for it.
- handler 15y ago
  noted, i'll wordmerge the word "movies" and see if i can come up with any cool names for this ;?j
  - rokhayakebe 15y ago
    Be sure to notify me/us.
- kilovoltaire 15y ago
  You totally can, with basically the same calls! e.g. to find the film Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%20belleville&topic_ids=list_movie http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%... id is hn_3575764, so then we can get movie recommendations for someone who likes Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_3575764&topic_ids=list_movie&limit=5&minimal=t http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_35... Seems pretty reasonable: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Dr. Strangelove
alex_h 15y ago
Some excellent recommendations, I love it. One small bug, a confirmation window shows up to select a restaurant, even when there is only 1 match to the text entered.
- wushupork 15y ago
  really? mine was off. I entered in a very very authentic Thai restaurant in LA which I love and expected to see some authentic Thai restaurant recommendations in Chicago - not at all. #fail

32 points by handler 15y ago

udfalkso 15y ago

Nice.

thomasec 15y ago

dig it

ernestipark 15y ago

Nice. Bug: when i have the dropdown for "what I'm homesick for" but hit discover, the dropdown stays over the new overlay.

handler 15y ago
thanks for pointing that out. will investigate and forward to jQuery UI.

martinshen 15y ago

I like it a lot. I had a similar idea to do this with Wine.

dibsonthenerdy1 15y ago

Very nice! I am not familiar with hunch's api. Could you share some internals on how you leveraged that?

handler 15y ago
hunch gives recommendations about pretty much everything, you can check out their api here: http://hunch.com/developers/v1/ http://hunch.com/developers/v1/ i am specifically using "get-similar-results" and "get-recommendations" limited by the location you enter

will_lam 15y ago

Awesome work. Did you show this to Yelp as well to get their API limit increased?

handler 15y ago
no, thats a good idea lemme look into it

rokhayakebe 15y ago

If you could build this for movies (and it works) I would pay 5 usd/year for it.

handler 15y ago
noted, i'll wordmerge the word "movies" and see if i can come up with any cool names for this ;?j
- rokhayakebe 15y ago
  Be sure to notify me/us.
kilovoltaire 15y ago
You totally can, with basically the same calls! e.g. to find the film Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%20belleville&topic_ids=list_movie http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%... id is hn_3575764, so then we can get movie recommendations for someone who likes Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_3575764&topic_ids=list_movie&limit=5&minimal=t http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_35... Seems pretty reasonable: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Dr. Strangelove

alex_h 15y ago

Some excellent recommendations, I love it. One small bug, a confirmation window shows up to select a restaurant, even when there is only 1 match to the text entered.

wushupork 15y ago
really? mine was off. I entered in a very very authentic Thai restaurant in LA which I love and expected to see some authentic Thai restaurant recommendations in Chicago - not at all. #fail