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Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN th

Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745) but it seemed to vanish in about 30 seconds... Now that I've got that shameless plug out of the way... I really like the way you have executed on this - particularly the way you show each theme's description while you load the demo page in the background. Are you just pulling themes from ThemeForest at the moment? And may I ask how you're seeding your database? Are you grabbing RSS feeds, or have you built scrapers to go out and grab data from the various description pages? EDIT: PS, can't get your blog link to work for some reason? I'm in Chrome...

bharani_m 12y ago
> Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: ThemeBeacon looks really cool. Love the landing page design. > I really like the way you have executed on this - particularly the way you show each theme's description while you load the demo page in the background. Are you just pulling themes from ThemeForest at the moment? And may I ask how you're seeding your database? Are you grabbing RSS feeds, or have you built scrapers to go out and grab data from the various description pages? I've written scrappers that run as background processes every night to fetch data from all the marketplaces (Themeforest, WrapBootstrap and Creative Market).