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Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW

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Post by zachster »

Clickables below: http://hot-spot.me/sxsw.php

A couple days ago, I posted a mashup I did of the SxSW panelist directory. I found it a lot easier to pick panels based on what companies people came from. I got no love from YC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281104

So let's try this again. This time, pick the pretty people, and if you make it through all the pages, I'll give you a list of the "prettiest" panels based on everyone's votes.

When I conceived of this, I wondered how evil it was. But after testing it a bit, I'm pretty confident in saying that pretty people propose great panels! I'm sure a larger discussion could be had on this topic. Maybe a panel next year? Anyone pretty want to propose it?

And in my defense, against claims I'm being objectifying and mean, I'm not showing anyone's ratings and I'm only showing the 20 most popular panels for each gender. If your panel was not picked, you were probably #21 and missed it by a hair.

Re: Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW

#3

Post by rmobin »

I didn't see your first post, but I like this one. Your title was interesting, so I clicked through to the website. Once there I saw at least one pretty girl, so it was easy to get started and go through all the pages. You suckered me in!

Re: Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW

#4

Post by zachster »

rmobin wrote: post #3

I didn't see your first post, but I like this one. Your title was interesting, so I clicked through to the website. Once there I saw at least one pretty girl, so it was easy to get started and go through all the pages. You suckered me in!

Heheh. I like to think of it as me passing along all the suckering pretty girls do to all of us. I'm just the messenger. (that sounds dirtier than I intended)

Re: Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW

#7

Post by rmobin »

zachster wrote: post #4
rmobin wrote: post #3

I didn't see your first post, but I like this one. Your title was interesting, so I clicked through to the website. Once there I saw at least one pretty girl, so it was easy to get started and go through all the pages. You suckered me in!

Heheh. I like to think of it as me passing along all the suckering pretty girls do to all of us. I'm just the messenger. (that sounds dirtier than I intended)

I forgot to mention one thing - some of the pictures were a little small, and so a potentially pretty girl was ignored by me because I wasn't sure. Not sure if there's a way to fix that, you might have to get creative with fetching alternate pictures for people.

Re: Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW

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Post by zachster »

rmobin wrote: post #7
zachster wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heheh. I like to think of it as me passing along all the suckering pretty girls do to all of us. I'm just the messenger. (that sounds dirtier than I intended)

I forgot to mention one thing - some of the pictures were a little small, and so a potentially pretty girl was ignored by me because I wasn't sure. Not sure if there's a way to fix that, you might have to get creative with fetching alternate pictures for people.

Haha. Good idea. I could scrape together their turn ons and turn offs too :) Maybe v2
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