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Re: Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

#11

I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this: | / | / | / | / | /

Agreed. HNTrends by qF looks pretty nice. If only it allowed you to compare multiple keywords. Looks like trends is a common theme with it showing up in http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/ too.

Re: Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

#13

I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this: | / | / | / | / | /

Agreed. HNTrends by qF looks pretty nice. If only it allowed you to compare multiple keywords. Looks like trends is a common theme with it showing up in http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/ too.

You can compare multiple keywords. Just separate by commas.

Re: Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

#14

I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this: | / | / | / | / | /

Agreed. HNTrends by qF looks pretty nice. If only it allowed you to compare multiple keywords. Looks like trends is a common theme with it showing up in http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/ too.

yep, just submitted my hn trends entry here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673357

I tried the vs thing to allow multiple things to be compared but tbh it didn't really add a lot on the comparrisons I tried out. I went for giving a summary of the top stories for the search term instead with an indication of where the big discussions were.

Re: Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

#16

I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this: | / | / | / | / | /

I just pushed a change which adjusts the results to account for HN's growth. Let me know what you think!

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#17
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Apps with clickable links: HN Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com PopDots - http://jflatow.github.com/popdots/ui.html HNInstant - http://hninstant.com HNTop100 - http://HNTop100.com HNSearch Ruby Library - https://github.com/ryanatwork/hacker_news_search HNSearch Topics - http://zacharymaril.com/HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html HNSearch Mobile - http://hnsearch.mobi Android Ticker Tape - http://www.socialmedia…

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I've added some details about the HN Vote button on http://hnvote.itaisatati.com/. Please update the link.

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#18

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Agreed. HNTrends by qF looks pretty nice. If only it allowed you to compare multiple keywords. Looks like trends is a common theme with it showing up in http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/ too.

You can compare multiple keywords. Just separate by commas.

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Re: Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

#19
I'm just gonna plug my submission real quick: check out Shomi. I just added the charting whatnot to it, which so far seems marginally useful but kinda cool. You can search for stuff like "recent comments by [username]", "top comments by [username]", "top submissions", etc. The UI is fairly OK; I'll make the search functionality more interesting after I get a couple hours' sleep.

Leave some suggestions and I'll see what I can tackle in a bit.

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