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Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

HaloZero wrote: post #9

How long until I can get recommendations? I rated a few beers but it would be nice to have at least some kinda estimation on how many I would have to rate.

Recommendations start getting generated immediately after you rate a beer. The site is in its infancy, of course, so recommendations may start out rocky but they'll get better as more people (and you) rate more beers. The sad state of the cold start!

How long it takes for the recommendations to refresh is tougher to say, but it shouldn't be more than a few minutes. I can see that the workers that process them are active, so I'm fairly sure it's working.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

joshschreuder wrote: post #3

I like the design, it's quite clean. Your blogs make for interesting reading too. The concept reminds me of Untappd ( http://untappd.com/ ) though theirs is a mobile app. I was also impressed that this didn't just limit down to American beers, but it had some of my native Aussie beers also. Nice work! Ideas: - Maybe load the beer names via AJAX for the search box so that I can get suggestions of what I'm typing for.…

That last idea is definitely something on my TODO. I give a brief rundown on the /about page, but the tooltips would be useful. The first idea is a good one as well, I'll be looking into how to cleanly implement that. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

mmurph211 wrote: post #4

Nice site. I found all the beers I was searching for easily. I think I'd use this more on my mobile phone while at the bar vs on my desktop.

Yeah if I knew Objective-C I'd code up an iOS app for the site. Once I know for sure the desktop version is stable, I'll at the least be looking into making a more mobile-friendly site.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

pstinnett wrote: post #14

Not sure if you're managing your own DB or not but it might be worth looking into http://www.brewerydb.com/

I actually thought long and hard about Brewery DB. Their API is just fantastic, IMO. Really clean. Unfortunately, I wrote Recommendable (the Ruby gem that I wrote to power the recommendations) in a way that it really relies on ActiveRecord currently. My database also has considerably more beers than BreweryDB does right now, but yeah. Managing it by myself slowly gets more difficult as more and more suggestions on beers I need to add come my way. I'm working on an admin section for me to manage that more easily.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by dmix »

davidcelis wrote: post #2

Thanks for looking guys. This site has been a side-project/hobby of mine for a while now. The past few days for me have been spent rewriting it from the ground up to be a much better site. I know that there are other beer sites out there, but I think that there is something special about making a service like this freely available and open source, and I'm really proud of what I've created. You can check out the code…

This sites page loads are really fast. Well done in that respect.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

dmix wrote: post #16
davidcelis wrote: post #2

Thanks for looking guys. This site has been a side-project/hobby of mine for a while now. The past few days for me have been spent rewriting it from the ground up to be a much better site. I know that there are other beer sites out there, but I think that there is something special about making a service like this freely available and open source, and I'm really proud of what I've created. You can check out the code…

This sites page loads are really fast. Well done in that respect.

PJAX, man. Loving it.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by hmrmaxwell »

davidcelis wrote: post #2

Thanks for looking guys. This site has been a side-project/hobby of mine for a while now. The past few days for me have been spent rewriting it from the ground up to be a much better site. I know that there are other beer sites out there, but I think that there is something special about making a service like this freely available and open source, and I'm really proud of what I've created. You can check out the code…

What algorithm are you using to make recommendations? I've been looking around in the recommendable source but can't seem to find it.
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