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groovyone

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About groovyone

Trying to create a distributed crawler as a monitoring tool. New to Python, but not new to business.

feel free to contact me brandmonitoring at gmail dot com

Recent public activity

  1. story
    Ask YC: Outsourced sysadmin?

    Hi there We're a small team and whilst we know a little about the server-side of things we're struggling a bit to look after our servers. We want to concentrate on building our app…

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    Ask YC: Help with how to save data from crawler

    Hi all! We are creating a web spider/crawler for experimenting with classification of sites. We are at a point where we can't make a decision and I was hoping someone out there who…

  3. story
    My new project - RubyEncoder

    Hi there I've just released our new project which is an encoder (script protection) for Ruby. We needed to protect some of our own scripts, so we decided to push it further and mak…

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    Comment #299465

    Thanks for these. They both look 'high end' rather than small and customizable, but I'll check them out. Thanks for the tips and links

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    Ask YC: Existing Crawlers in Python

    Hi there. Hope you don't mind me posting. We're trying to create a system for analyzing web pages and classifying them. We have done the classification using CRM114 (thanks for thi…

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    Comment #289291

    I'd offer a hosted version. Most people will not want to go about setting up S3, dealing with private keys etc. Where's your market?

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    Comment #288204

    I (respectfully) don't agree with the fact that all the .com names have gone, but I do agree with creating a brand name. I've registered some great names after doing some serious s…

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    Comment #284767

    Haha. Your true colours are showing

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    Comment #242377

    Good points! Apple is a BUSINESS :) Hey, and guess what - it seems to be working for them

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    Comment #191740

    Interesting. I was thinking more of 'business' stuff, but there's always a correlation between business and topics such as rise and falls of empires. Thanks for that!

  11. story
    Ask YC: Road trip. Which audio books would you recommend?

    I've got to go on a road trip for a few days. Which are your favourite and most inspirational audio books?

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    Comment #189376

    Wow, this sounds awesome. I'll go check it out. Hopefully I can then re-distribute this cleaned email. Thanks for the tip though. I'll report my findings and a "How To" here if I g…

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    Ask YC: What do you do about spam?

    Hi all. We're a small team (5 people) but are inundated by spam. We've all got iPhones or Blackberrys and so have been looking for online solutions which will filter the spam out b…

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    Comment #172897

    Me too :)

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    Comment #171991

    Some people just aren't satisfied :)

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    Comment #171985

    Franky I can see why. I used Vista for the very first time today at a clients. All I was trying to do was set up some email accounts and I realised that Microsoft had gone crazy du…

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    Comment #166554

    Thanks. I agree with you, though we've done 'ok' so far. Feel free to get in touch if its an area you're interested in. Email address is now in profile

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    Comment #166548

    Thanks to everyone for their input so far. I now have a few things to look at and research - the main thing is to move it forward. If I can sell it, then it will give me additional…

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    Comment #166416

    $120k is our turnover. Actual expenses are very minimal (hosting costs, $500 Adwords and a few others) as we do other things - time spent on it is around 1-2 hours a day between us…

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    Ask YC: How would you sell your business?

    Hi. We have an existing software business (provision of encryption software) that brings in a good level of regular revenue but the income at the moment isn't stratospheric (We're …

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    Comment #165216

    Could this be someone testing the market? Set up a site, fill it with content and get the press releases out there....

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    Comment #162620

    Hi there. I've not heard of Carrot. Do you have a link for it? My Google search brought up some orange things you grow and eat :)

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    Comment #162424

    great! that does look interesting. I'll have a good look through it. You involved in this field yourself? If so, drop me a line as we're looking for a consultant to help us with so…

  24. story
    Ask YC: How would you do keyword classification

    I'm trying to automate the classification of documents that we are seeing from our crawler. I have done a google search for keyword classification using Python but I'm not getting …

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    Comment #150398

    Thanks John. I'll do that. Your resume looks awesome mind. Not sure how much we'd be able to help you!