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Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#31

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:17 PM UTC

Hey guys, author here, thanks all for the kind words. It's nice to see it reaching the front page of HN when someone with decent karma submits it.

Just to let you all know I've only spent about 6 hours on this and plan to polish it up somewhat as it's still quite rough. I've also got a bunch of other developers requesting inclusion into the site swell, which I'll also add.

Things on the todo list are visual polish, adding other services, new menu, adding the suggest feature, perhaps changing from just using the google search to better apis etc.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#32

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

riffer wrote: post #14

This is awesome. I love seeing what people can build in a short period of time, and you know that this was just a couple of days. Good job, Tam.

6 Hours actually. :P Thanks for the kind words.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#33

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:55 PM UTC

Hey guys just added a bunch more services from other developers. Thanks to all.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#34

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:01 PM UTC

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Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#35

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:06 PM UTC

rradu wrote: post #13

How about you collaborate with http://searchyc.com and use their index with this interface?

Had a little play with that site, its nice that it has a JSON service but whenever it made a query it hanged like hell. So like jackowayed said, they'd have to get faster results. One thing you cant fault with using Google search, its fast.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#36

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:08 PM UTC

amichail wrote: post #10

It doesn't have predictions.

I'll be fixing that soon. Should be in within 24 hours.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#37

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:10 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #16

Can you please do a body {height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px;}

I tried this out on a test page, couldnt see a difference, whats it supposed to fix?

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#38

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:11 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #18

abalashov wrote: post #17

So, does the author now get a handsome six-figure job offer from Y Combinator via Twitter?

Unlikely. I know you're trying to make a joke but I'd see YC point him to one of their start-ups long before they'd hire him themselves. And start-ups generally do not offer six figure salaries.

And i dont use twitter. :P

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#39

Post by TamDenholm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 11:53 PM UTC

http://bit.ly/ddUj1E <-- if anyone finds analytics interesting, HN moved WAY more traffic than TC. A good section of the directs are HN too.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

#40

Post by jlees » Mon, Sep 13, 2010, 12:25 AM UTC

Next step, grab a corpus of HN posts and do some text crunching to generate suggestions.

(or you could 'borrow' Feross' code, which is not condoned by Google - posts on the Interwebs say Google Suggest's "API" is not for public use - and not specific to this domain.)