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I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by Sam_Odio »

ajju wrote: post #3

You have solved an important issue with Twitter - grouping different kinds of people so readers can separate them and read only the kind of tweets they are interested in at that time. There is a higher level problem - reading only certain kinds of tweets from certain groups of people. For e.g. I am interested only in tweets about Ruby from the Ruby people. Put this way, the solution is to simply filter on words relat…

If you want the backend twitter/rss code I'll give that away right now: http://dpaste.com/hold/60154/

Be forewarned: this was my first python/django project.

Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by synnik »

... Because I've injured myself. I cannot practice kung fu for 6 weeks. I need something to do in that time.

Taking over your project sounds a lot more productive for both myself and future customers than just sitting around playing MMORPGs.

That, and I'm the only person so far who answered your direct question of, "Why you should get the project."

:)

Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by ajju »

Sam_Odio wrote: post #11
ajju wrote: post #3

You have solved an important issue with Twitter - grouping different kinds of people so readers can separate them and read only the kind of tweets they are interested in at that time. There is a higher level problem - reading only certain kinds of tweets from certain groups of people. For e.g. I am interested only in tweets about Ruby from the Ruby people. Put this way, the solution is to simply filter on words relat…

If you want the backend twitter/rss code I'll give that away right now: http://dpaste.com/hold/60154/ Be forewarned: this was my first python/django project.

Thanks! I'll continue to vie for the full prize too :)

I like that you're using python-twitter. I have played with it a bit and contributed to a very minor fix (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=58)

This is our 2nd Django project so we are still learning the ropes as well.

Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by ajju »

TrevorJ wrote: post #6

I was working on something similar a while ago. I bought the domain twitchboard.com (Like a switchboard for twitter, harhar ^.^ ). I cobbled together a proof-of-concept on it. Since I'm not a hacker I can say with certainty that the backend is janky at best, and I am much more comfortable doing design work and marketing, but all that is to say, if anyone is interested in putting 2-and-2 together we could use the Twit…

Trevor, did you design twitchboard.com alone? Do you have a portfolio of any UI design work you have done which you can point me to? We are looking for someone to help us with design. Thanks.

Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by scottieh »

I want this.

I founded and sold Groupvine, a group platform for colleges that was swallowed up by the Daily Jolt and shut down.

What I learned was that getting specific groups of people to shift habits and adopt new collaboration tools is tough. It's massive buy-in at every level.

We also wanted to aggregate activity from across campuses to filter a real-time stream of "what's happening now" in case you wanted to join in and check something out you didn't know was happening.

When I see this, I see a low barrier to entry and I see overlap with everything from what I was trying to accomplish to Yammer...

But then it applies to marketers, too. I want to know who everyone is who tweeted about Klean Kanteen bottles, but don't want to follow of them quite yet.

It's a "getting to know you" engine, a knowledge-cultivating engine, and simultaneously an activity-tracking engine.

I love it. It could be leveraged into marketers' tools, or simply as a way of giving people an easier way to be a voyeur. So many applications here!

Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN

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Post by chriskjennings »

I am a working UI Designer / Developer who also just built an application to learn Python/Django.

I feel that I could properly give this site a visual upgrade with my design and front-end skills, while also learning and maintaining the Django project.

Adding a viral loop to the mix would skyrocket groups and userbase. I'm definitely up for the challenge :)

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