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From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by ohashi »

dutchbrit wrote: post #15
mbenjaminsmith wrote: post #5

I punched through a dozen or so and 100% of those were rhetorical. You need to combine it with some NLP like Kevin's doing here: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/

I had a lot of rhetorical questions too. Also, Kevin's solution is not 100% waterproof - just looked through some "negative reviews" for ServInt and they weren't exactly negative. Maybe you could build a bayesian filter of some kind? (I'm not sure how Kevin filtered his reviews exactly?)

Kevin here. No, it's not perfect and never will be. I definitely use a bayesian classifier in our process among other things.

That said, if you see mistakes, please flag them! My system does get smarter with more data, so when people flag mistakes for us to correct, it makes a difference both immediately and in the long run.

If you have any other thoughts/critiques/ideas please feel free to let me know :)

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by dutchbrit »

ohashi wrote: post #31
dutchbrit wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a lot of rhetorical questions too. Also, Kevin's solution is not 100% waterproof - just looked through some "negative reviews" for ServInt and they weren't exactly negative. Maybe you could build a bayesian filter of some kind? (I'm not sure how Kevin filtered his reviews exactly?)

Kevin here. No, it's not perfect and never will be. I definitely use a bayesian classifier in our process among other things. That said, if you see mistakes, please flag them! My system does get smarter with more data, so when people flag mistakes for us to correct, it makes a difference both immediately and in the long run. If you have any other thoughts/critiques/ideas please feel free to let me know :)

No, thats perfect, it'll get better by time if it learns :)

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by MicahWedemeyer »

Great idea and execution.

Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by kleiba »

mschenk wrote: post #4
relix wrote: post #3

Very impressive Maarten. I especially like your localisation efforts! The unique URL's fitting for each language are amazing. Do you feel this is a big boon to spread fast? Are you yourself a good speaker of those languages, or did you ask external help for the translations/domain name suggestions?

I speak Dutch, English and reasonable French. For German and Spanish: Google translate to the rescue :-)

To be honest, the German site (dufragst.es) reads exactly like that ;-) You might want to look into getting some translation help, some parts of the site sound quite unnatural.
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