I am working on this: http://www.fillburt.com . A tool to fill out job apps faster. I am in the process of validating it. Any feedback is welcome.
Jobvite integration?
Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
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Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#42I am working on a online newsreader that allows you to quickly read only important articles from websites and blogs of your choice. Every article gets analyzed and evaluated, and uninteresting articles get filtered out. So you don’t have to read all articles of your favorite websites and blogs – only the important ones will be shown to you. http://zebrello.instapage.com
Great looking landing page! So how does filtering work? I guess user would need to provide custom set of keywords? Can they specify Regex? Are keywords used against article title or against the whole body? If you are matching against article body, do you have any logic that would determine location of "article meat" or "article body boundaries", i.e. would strip out header / footer / ads / comments / navigation links…
Thx!
For the first release we analyze the popularity of an article by likes, shares, count of reads, etc. For the second step we analyze also the body.
We are using only RSS, so we have no header/footer/comments/navigation. Ads we remove by converting html to text.
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever a user visits the website, a session cookie is created in the user's system, that is set to expire after 15 years. Using this cookie data, I identify and authenticate the user. The user also has a private url which he can use to login using other devices. Once logged in from this unidentified device, another cookie is created for the user but with a short time span. The user has the option to set the device…
OK, got it. You probably ask for user's email and send them their secret special link that could be used over and over to restore the cookie? in case if they accidently delete their cookie?
Not yet. Currently the user has to make sure to save that link. There is no recovery if they delete the cookie and have no access to the secret link. This idea originated from NightChamber which refrains from asking for any kind of user details to maintain anonymity. But that might have to change with my implementation because of the social network like features.
Emailing the secret link seems good, now that I think about it. Thanks!