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Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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Probably scraping websites like Hacker News or Github on a daily basis and see what new things are surfacing. For example, what are the projects on Github that are getting new followers faster, or what words appear often on the front page of Hacker News now, but not six months ago?

Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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post #4

Probably scraping websites like Hacker News or Github on a daily basis and see what new things are surfacing. For example, what are the projects on Github that are getting new followers faster, or what words appear often on the front page of Hacker News now, but not six months ago?

This. And it would be cooler if you used GitHub as a dictionary of keywords while the trends being checked on Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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Turn off your "do other people like this?" filter. Also turn off your "is this like other stuff I've used before in the past?" filter. Go try out the technologies yourself. The stuff you like now is the stuff other people will like in a couple years.

Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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Turn off your "do other people like this?" filter. Also turn off your "is this like other stuff I've used before in the past?" filter. Go try out the technologies yourself. The stuff you like now is the stuff other people will like in a couple years.

Reminds me of when I first heard about bitcoin 2009 ish. I thought it was a super cool idea but ... hey other people ain't into it so it can't be that hot. Had I turned off that sheep filter I would have probably got more into it more.

Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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post #7

Turn off your "do other people like this?" filter. Also turn off your "is this like other stuff I've used before in the past?" filter. Go try out the technologies yourself. The stuff you like now is the stuff other people will like in a couple years.

Reminds me of when I first heard about bitcoin 2009 ish. I thought it was a super cool idea but ... hey other people ain't into it so it can't be that hot. Had I turned off that sheep filter I would have probably got more into it more.

And by the same token programming languages that prove correctness and 'make illegal state un-representable' will be a growing trend in the future.

The shear number of programming languages will reach a pinnacle to where we give up on Haskell vs. Java and just say: here are some levers - you set them up and we'll spit you out a programming language and platform that meets your needs.

Re: Ask HN: Any hacks/ideas to identify tech trends from the bottom up?

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post #7

Turn off your "do other people like this?" filter. Also turn off your "is this like other stuff I've used before in the past?" filter. Go try out the technologies yourself. The stuff you like now is the stuff other people will like in a couple years.

Reminds me of when I first heard about bitcoin 2009 ish. I thought it was a super cool idea but ... hey other people ain't into it so it can't be that hot. Had I turned off that sheep filter I would have probably got more into it more.

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