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Show HN: Determine expertise from Twitter. We've run the YC partners

17 points by jeffchuber 14y ago

We wanted a way to share what we had learned online (first expressed by what we had shared on twitter). So we built this. http://knowitapp.com/paulg http://knowitapp.com/foundersatwork http://knowitapp.com/paultoo http://knowitapp.com/garrytan http://knowitapp.com/gralston http://knowitapp.com/harjeet (Bonus: you can see your similarity if you login - and no we won't tweet from your account) What do you guys and gals think?

jeffchuber 14y ago
clickable http://knowitapp.com/paulg http://knowitapp.com/paulg http://knowitapp.com/foundersatwork http://knowitapp.com/foundersatwork http://knowitapp.com/paultoo http://knowitapp.com/paultoo http://knowitapp.com/garrytan http://knowitapp.com/garrytan http://knowitapp.com/gralston http://knowitapp.com/gralston http://knowitapp.com/harjeet http://knowitapp.com/harjeet
kalope 14y ago
Game titles have always intrigued children in addition to grown ups mainly due to their interaction and graphics. Batman, a fascinating character from the Electricity comics of youth, is a favorite among many. The 1939 comic character has crept into television screens and films, with more than 100s of animated series and also over five movie versions. The heroic disposition of batman combined with exclusive forces has brought to the development of Batman Games. Source: http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games-action-and-adventure.html http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games...
nickler 14y ago
I like it. Now obviously there are tons of other applications playing with the social graph, and it's about filtering the noise, but visually it's nicely presented, and makes a nice digital calling card. Are there plans to develop this further?
- nashy 14y ago
  We've got the Facebook integration basically ready to go on the back-end, but we're waiting to integrate it into the front-end until we get more user feedback about how the site currently stands (and work out a few small bugs, as others have been so helpful to point out here). We'd love this to be the place on the Web where people go to answer the question "What does Nick know about?" And be able to get a much faster and richer understanding about your knowledge and interests than they would be able to get from a glance at (or even several minutes of reading) your Twitter of Facebook wall.
pavel_lishin 14y ago
After signing in, it offered some interesting people for me to follow. I tried clicking on Romney's link, which led me to http://knowitapp.com/start/mittromney http://knowitapp.com/start/mittromney - but then I got a 404: "The requested URL /start/mittromney.php was not found on this server." Looks like you guys are just linking to an outdated URL scheme, should be /mittromney
- jeffchuber 14y ago
  fixed. thanks! sorry about that.
ikawe 14y ago
Cool concept. I went to knowitapp.com/ikawe. I clicked "claim my profile". I entered twitter creds. Then I was bounced back to playpen.knowitapp.com/ikawe. I saw a bunch of [PHP errors]. When I go to knowitapp.com/ikawe, It still says it doesn't know me, and offers for me to "claim my profile". Is your twitter auth callback url wrong? [PHP errors] http://www.pastebucket.com/5130 http://www.pastebucket.com/5130
- nashy 14y ago
  Oh, the downside of being sloppy with button links. Looks like a test link got away from us. Fixed now! Thanks so much for pointing it out :)
staringispolite 14y ago
Bug report: I got the email Subject: "Your graph has been updated!". But the link inside took me to http://knowitapp.com//graph http://knowitapp.com//graph
- nashy 14y ago
  Thanks! Fixed now. It should be http://knowitapp.com/[your_twitter_handle] http://knowitapp.com/[your_twitter_handle]
fudged71 14y ago
Oops? Your "successful graph import" email sent me to this link: http://knowitapp.com//graph http://knowitapp.com//graph which tries to render as the User "Graph" (who unfortunately hasn't tweeted yet! https://twitter.com/graph https://twitter.com/graph). Update the email link to http://knowitapp.com/_user_/graph http://knowitapp.com/_user_/graph !
- nashy 14y ago
  Thanks! on it :)
  - fudged71 14y ago
    Also, I'm still not able to access my Interest Graph. It just pops up with a blank background.
  - fudged71 14y ago
    Also, I'm still not able to access my Interest Graph. It just pops up with a blank background.
kbojody 14y ago
Bug report: On your front page, when opening the drop-down. If you enter a twitter username as it suggests, ie: @username. You are redirected to http://knowitapp.com/@username http://knowitapp.com/@username which gives a 404. Do you have a formal place to report bugs?
- nashy 14y ago
  Thanks for bringing this up. We have a feedback form for people who are logged in. But not otherwise. This is as good a place as any for bug reports, at the moment ;-)

17 points by jeffchuber 14y ago

jeffchuber 14y ago

clickable http://knowitapp.com/paulg http://knowitapp.com/paulg http://knowitapp.com/foundersatwork http://knowitapp.com/foundersatwork http://knowitapp.com/paultoo http://knowitapp.com/paultoo http://knowitapp.com/garrytan http://knowitapp.com/garrytan http://knowitapp.com/gralston http://knowitapp.com/gralston http://knowitapp.com/harjeet http://knowitapp.com/harjeet

kalope 14y ago

Game titles have always intrigued children in addition to grown ups mainly due to their interaction and graphics. Batman, a fascinating character from the Electricity comics of youth, is a favorite among many. The 1939 comic character has crept into television screens and films, with more than 100s of animated series and also over five movie versions. The heroic disposition of batman combined with exclusive forces has brought to the development of Batman Games. Source: http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games-action-and-adventure.html http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games...

nickler 14y ago

I like it. Now obviously there are tons of other applications playing with the social graph, and it's about filtering the noise, but visually it's nicely presented, and makes a nice digital calling card. Are there plans to develop this further?

nashy 14y ago
We've got the Facebook integration basically ready to go on the back-end, but we're waiting to integrate it into the front-end until we get more user feedback about how the site currently stands (and work out a few small bugs, as others have been so helpful to point out here). We'd love this to be the place on the Web where people go to answer the question "What does Nick know about?" And be able to get a much faster and richer understanding about your knowledge and interests than they would be able to get from a glance at (or even several minutes of reading) your Twitter of Facebook wall.

pavel_lishin 14y ago

After signing in, it offered some interesting people for me to follow. I tried clicking on Romney's link, which led me to http://knowitapp.com/start/mittromney http://knowitapp.com/start/mittromney - but then I got a 404: "The requested URL /start/mittromney.php was not found on this server." Looks like you guys are just linking to an outdated URL scheme, should be /mittromney

jeffchuber 14y ago
fixed. thanks! sorry about that.

ikawe 14y ago

Cool concept. I went to knowitapp.com/ikawe. I clicked "claim my profile". I entered twitter creds. Then I was bounced back to playpen.knowitapp.com/ikawe. I saw a bunch of [PHP errors]. When I go to knowitapp.com/ikawe, It still says it doesn't know me, and offers for me to "claim my profile". Is your twitter auth callback url wrong? [PHP errors] http://www.pastebucket.com/5130 http://www.pastebucket.com/5130

nashy 14y ago
Oh, the downside of being sloppy with button links. Looks like a test link got away from us. Fixed now! Thanks so much for pointing it out :)

staringispolite 14y ago

Bug report: I got the email Subject: "Your graph has been updated!". But the link inside took me to http://knowitapp.com//graph http://knowitapp.com//graph

nashy 14y ago
Thanks! Fixed now. It should be http://knowitapp.com/[your_twitter_handle] http://knowitapp.com/[your_twitter_handle]

fudged71 14y ago

Oops? Your "successful graph import" email sent me to this link: http://knowitapp.com//graph http://knowitapp.com//graph which tries to render as the User "Graph" (who unfortunately hasn't tweeted yet! https://twitter.com/graph https://twitter.com/graph). Update the email link to http://knowitapp.com/_user_/graph http://knowitapp.com/_user_/graph !

nashy 14y ago
Thanks! on it :)
- fudged71 14y ago
  Also, I'm still not able to access my Interest Graph. It just pops up with a blank background.
- fudged71 14y ago
  Also, I'm still not able to access my Interest Graph. It just pops up with a blank background.

kbojody 14y ago

Bug report: On your front page, when opening the drop-down. If you enter a twitter username as it suggests, ie: @username. You are redirected to http://knowitapp.com/@username http://knowitapp.com/@username which gives a 404. Do you have a formal place to report bugs?

nashy 14y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. We have a feedback form for people who are logged in. But not otherwise. This is as good a place as any for bug reports, at the moment ;-)