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Ideas for a non-web software startup?
37 points by hashbucket 18y ago|33 comments
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An idea for an RSS filter: if it existed, would you use it?
1 points by hashbucket 18y ago|1 comments
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by hashbucket 18y ago
Well, the problem is that my site is supposed to do exactly what reddit does. In fact, it was inspired by complains on reddit that an influx of new users buried the old interesting content. You do bring up a good point, however. I'll think
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by hashbucket 18y ago
Maybe you should submit it to some more social news sites. I personally found it to be very interesting!
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by hashbucket 18y ago
Yes, let's chat. You can email me at hashbucket@10gic.net
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by hashbucket 18y ago
That's because I'm not trying to promote my site here, just ask for information. I've already done that before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135495 There's a bit more information here: http://fyynd.com/FAQ/
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by hashbucket 18y ago
A related question: does anyone know how reddit/digg/facebook/myspace gained their initial traction? Facebook couldn't have been very useful with all of 5 people on it. How did they gain their initial group of users?
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Attention Economy: The Game(blog.ulisesmejias.com)
2 points by hashbucket 18y ago|0 comments
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I built it but they wouldn't come!
44 points by hashbucket 18y ago|72 comments
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by hashbucket 19y ago
I have written a social news site which you might be interested in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135495
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by hashbucket 19y ago
I have looked into SVMs but I don't think they would work well in this case because: 1) A separate classifier would have to trained for each user and this would take too much resources. 2) I think an SVM would require too many training case
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by hashbucket 19y ago
UPDATE: a major bug that prevented people from submitting new links was fixed.
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by hashbucket 19y ago
You have to include the cookie.
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by hashbucket 19y ago
I used Django. Everything is written in Python, including the recommendation "backend".
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by hashbucket 19y ago
Bookmarklets: done. See http://fyynd.com/bookmarklets/ . As for rating links programmatically: it is a simple POST to " http://fyynd.com/links/ [link_id]/rate/" with a parameter "rating". "rating" should be a float between 0 and 5. A ratin
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by hashbucket 19y ago
P.S.: I forgot to mention: the voting system normalizes your ratings. Thus, if you vote all 5 stars it is same as not voting at all! You must tell it what you don't like as well as what you like.
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by hashbucket 19y ago
This is a personalized news site that I wrote in two months based on algorithms from the book Programming Collective Intelligence. Please tell me what you think. It has two main features: the ability to identify related /similar links and s
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My personalized news site based on the book Programming Collective Intelligence(fyynd.com)
40 points by hashbucket 19y ago|16 comments