Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this • Hacker News Board

aviswanathan wrote: post #7

Cool idea. Seems pretty similar to http://www.tweetspiration.com/ . After putting a decent spam-filter on this, maybe there's a way to introduce crowd-supported mechanics (ala upvotes, comments, relevant mentions/hashtags)?

i like the comments idea!

Re: Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this

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Post by ArekDymalski » Wed, May 08, 2013, 9:06 PM UTC

I guess that it isn't something you intended, but you've build great entertainment site. As your user I want you to archive these pearls of humour and let me upvote'em. Time to pivot ;)

Re: Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this

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Post by chrismccord » Wed, May 08, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

drum wrote: post #11

aitoehigie wrote: post #5

what did you use to build this?

Ruby on Rails, with the Sync Gem by Chris McCord and Pusher

Thanks for the mention! I love seeing examples of what people are building out there. Some crafty visitor was spamming the list with scripted entries and the updates were buttery smooth :)

Re: Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this

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Post by codereflection » Wed, May 08, 2013, 9:12 PM UTC

I've just been watching it for about 5 minutes, pretty entertaining actually.

Re: Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this

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Post by riz_ » Wed, May 08, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

Idea: if the "as a"-field starts with a vowel, change the "a" to "an".