http://brl.codesimply.net/
Inexplicably, when you ask people to name an easy-to-learn language that's designed for web/database applications, they still say PHP.
Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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Great sense of web design on all your sites, and being 15 is pretty impressive too :-)
I second this. Very clean but also dramatic. Good work on the logo, too. The "learn more" section under "advertiser" states that "Cadmium provides a deep data collection system". Did you design something of an analytics dashboard as well? If it looks half as nice as the rest of the site, I'd be impressed.
The analytics 'dashboard':
http://files.markbao.com/cadmium-db.png
The data collection results visualizer (insights): http://files.markbao.com/cadmium-insights.png
Thanks for your kind words!
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#43http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)
That's a great idea, and a great domain name. You didn't go forward?
No real idea of where to take it from here. We have a few ideas that break from the theme of no text, such as tagging and a reddit style interface, and improved ways for the community to segregate out the flock of penises.
We did the bulk of it as a 48 hour coding competition with the theme of 'antitext'. I wanted to make something in Django, and my roommate wanted to make something in flash. So from the start there was no real direction aside from the neatness factor and wanting to see if we could pull it off.
Any suggestions would be appreciated :D
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#44http://search.brianreily.com - lets you search multiple sites from one bar.
Its been a work in progress for a long time (thus why its a subdomain), and haven't had a chance to do much with it.
So I guess it hasn't _failed_, but it hasn't succeeded.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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#46http://www.thephotostream.com could change the way people consume their daily web.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#47maybe it wouldn't change the world, but if you're into reading multiple local papers "popurls style" http://www.newshoured.com/ might be a friend.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#48http://free.LocalDataPlace.com - which we built for local recycling (ala freecycle). We haven't been willing to spam existing freecycle groups but we need good local traction to catch on.
I've got something similar to that - http://relovable.com/ - designed to target the parenting niche. Kids grow (zing!) through clothes at an alarming rate.
I never bothered to attempt to market it at all - it was more a proof-of-concept that I could do something with Rails. Still think it has value though.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#49http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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Yes, it doesn't know when to shut up. It tends to work better with longer articles, we usually test it with content from Google News.
Have you looked at work done on keyword extraction from academic literature? http://www.nzdl.org/Kea/ It's simple and accurate.
Yes, we have. What we do is not keyword extraction, our tool suggests tags based on probabilistic algorithms. For example, if your document contains the terms Bush and Obama it should be tagged as politics even if that word is not present in it. Compare to the Yahoo Extraction Tool, for example. This approach will not add new keywords that would help in a search. It's only useful to have an idea of what the document is about.
The main problem is not the algorithm but the input data. Our system learns from millions of tagged blog posts among other sources. The quality of the tags varies a lot, and most of the work we do is about deciding what data to use for training.