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Show HN: GiftMating - gift ideas based on things your giftees already love
- nathanh 14y agoEach year I've had a secret I use to find gifts for people: go to Amazon, find two things I know my gift recipient likes, then compare the "similar items" section to find matches. It's kind of tedious to do, but it works like a charm. This year, I made a GiftMating to do the same things with less effort. Tech behind the scenes: Rails, Zurb Foundation, Amazon Product Advertising API PS: really loving Foundation as an alternative to Bootstrap - you get a responsive layout that you can use by specifying the grid in css instead of in html.
- mostlystatic 14y agoThat's a cool idea. Also, well done on the design. The "gift babies" link in "Why all the mating?" gives me a 404 though.
- nathanh 14y agoThanks for the kind words! Just updated the link - great catch.
- ajanuary 14y agoWould be cool if you could give it the URL of a wishlist and it would find the crossovers from that. Would save trying to find two items you think are similar enough to have a useful crossover.
- nathanh 14y agoThat's a great idea! I'm trying to think what the best approach for picking the items from the list would be. Maybe start with things in the same category - ex: movies vs books. Alternatively, it could try a bunch of combinations and only report the best based on some sort of "diversity of results" score.