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Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

#71

Just launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release. http://merecal.com/

Very useful, well done.

Hope you don't live in North Carolina.

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

#73

I just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/ It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.

That's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in.

(No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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post #19

Building a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com

Very very interesting. If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?

My instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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post #19

Building a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com

Very very interesting. If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?

Well, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.)

We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

#76
We just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.com

It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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post #74
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very very interesting. If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?

My instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)

Actually, that's exactly what I did in the early stages of the project. Once I started getting some traction earlier this year, it made sense to start putting some real effort into building a much better engine.

Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)

Re: Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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post #67

Just in my spare time, but working on a subway/train route finder for the Tokyo trains http://trains.jp/ There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use. Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!

How on earth did you nail that domain name? .jp must be virgin lands!

A little - tho most of the good ones are taken. Just lucky I think - it was previously registered, but lapsed.
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