Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting

Thanks again to everyone who submitted an app for the HNSearch API contest (http://www.hnsearch.com/contest). We received 28 submissions and couldn't be happier with the results.

The winner of the contest will be the app with the most number of votes at midnight tonight (Monday, June 20th 11:59pm EST). Please try them all and let the authors know what you think.

Vote for your favorite apps!

Apps with clickable links:

HN Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com

PopDots - http://jflatow.github.com/popdots/ui.html

HNInstant - http://hninstant.com

HNTop100 - http://HNTop100.com

HNSearch Ruby Library - https://github.com/ryanatwork/hacker_news_search

HNSearch Topics - http://zacharymaril.com/HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html

HNSearch Mobile - http://hnsearch.mobi

Android Ticker Tape - http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk

HN Sentiment Bookmarklet - http://hnmood.appspot.com

Improved HNSearch Interface - http://sc.nightserve.net/

FeedHint Custom HN Feeds - http://feedhint.com

iPhone App - https://github.com/qhoxie/newsyc

HNJS - http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com

Best of $user - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of

HNTrends by qF - http://www.hntrends.dotcloud.com/

HNChat - http://hnchat.philipds.dotcloud.com/

Save My Search - http://beta.mindcast.com/sms

HNMood - http://hnmood.com

iHNteresting - http://pewpewlabs.com/ihnt/

Hacker News Sidebar - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma...

HN Vote Button - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/detail/kepllieh...

HN Trends by sant0sk1 - http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net

pyhn - http://pyhn.gnocchi.dotcloud.com/

Shomi - http://shomi.associatedtechs.com/

HN Search by Ian Burris - http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/

Hacker News GeoIP Search - http://geoipsearch.jfriedly.dotcloud.com/

Unscatter HN Search Tag - http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=%2Fhn+facebook&t=test...

HN Reveal - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kpmlnebfcgjcohlbod...

Just a little background on the iPhone submission. The work was done on a fork of news:yc (http://newsyc.me). The author has already merged the changes in, so those of you using the app will receive an update with search.

Here is how it looks: http://img.skitch.com/20110620-1mewpjkhy72hbhghw2ycmtjjpa.jp...

I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this:

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