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Looking forward to tracking this project. I totally get it.

Very cool. Also just signed up for your product beta.

We built a really basic JSON API to access the John Hopkins coronavirus data: https://cv.peakm.com/stats.json or https://cv.peakm.com/stats.json?date=2020-03-01 It's totally free a…

I may open source it. It's pretty easy to get started if you leverage pre-existing libraries for Markov chains and Twitter ingestion.

Jane?! That is a small world and a great memory! I used to be a huge ColdFusion fan.

Sure, definitely. Or just retrain Parrot on VC Medium articles and have it write itself :-)

Born and raised!

Sure, I should be able to throw it onto a repo later.

They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)

Hmmm I hadn't thought of that. That's a great point.

Yep!

Hah oh jeez.

Ugh my relationship with Spectrum

Hah that's pretty good

Perfect - starting the AngelList syndicate right now. Haha

It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.

Haha I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Never said it was the smartest algorithm. If you hover over the VC's name, it'll show the actual tweet that was sampled.

Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up, this…

We're not quite real-time but this is in our wheelhouse https://www.civicfeed.com/

Hi HN, Explore News is a side project I built that helps you visualizes how people and organizations are connected through a graph. As part of the work we do at CivicFeed, we've bu…

Yup, totally. Was just curious if someone had made this process just a little bit easier.

Hi HN, does anyone know of a service that allows me to push notifications to a central place then manages the users' roll-up preferences for me? It seems like most services are foc…

If you're looking for more news sources, happy to hook you up with some extra API credit ( https://developers.civicfeed.com/ )