Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
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Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#2Hi all,
I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio.
LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I usually ask for price range, display size, brand preferences and check some popular forums for laptop recommendations. To save some time doing this I wrote LaptopHits.com. It should collect all laptop mentions from all online discussions, but for now, as it's just MVP version, online discussion == Reddit comments and laptop mentions == Amazon links.
What do you think about it ?
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#3Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
There seems to be at least one major laptop brand missing and there's certainly not a to lack of discussions about their new Pro models.
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#4Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
Congratulations on shipping. That's the hardest part.
Very clever on Amazon links in reddit being the source of truth. That will obviously leave a lot on the table, but gives you really reliable parsing.
Honestly, this is a great site. I'd keep it simple, but you could definitely expand on the styling a little bit.
Great work!
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#5Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
I'd like to be able to filter by comment about laptop used with linux. This feature would be great
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#6Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
Good idea, but needs more Apple. I can't imagine they haven't come up at all.
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#7Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
Good idea, but needs more Apple. I can't imagine they haven't come up at all.
I fixed it, there were only 2 Apple "mentions" in my db, so I put them in Other.
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#8Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
I'd like to be able to filter by comment about laptop used with linux. This feature would be great
Great idea, especially as I use linux on my laptop as well. Probably some other keywords like gaming, bussiness, study would be usefull as well.
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#9I absolutely love the clear, fast, no-nonsense and almost Pinboard-like styling and layout.
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#10Good timing for this product! With so many Macbook Pro users upset and looking for Linux (like myself), being able to find a laptop with excellent build quality will be really nice!