itsandrew
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Comment · 13 years ago
After buying a pair boots online last week, I found myself searching social sites to get a better idea of a) what they looked like b) how people like them. This resulted in me realizing there isn't a great site which provides this service. As such, I threw this together.
It's pretty basic, but searches Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter for the product you would like to see more about. My hope is to monetize it with some Amazon referrals. It's pretty scrappy right now, but I also added a very basic sentiment analysis so people can see both popularity ranking and overall sentiment for the current product.
I would love some feedback. I'm hoping my rate limits for all these APIs hold up until I can allow people to log in using their own accounts.
Comment · 15 years ago
Great stuff... I'm working on a similar tool at the moment. Page load speeds were a bit sluggish for me. I'm guessing that's attributable to the large amount of javascript processing happening?
Comment · 15 years ago
I was in the same boat. It made the platform unusable. That coupled with some of the worst and most apathetic customer support I have ever experienced, I swore to never go back.
Comment · 16 years ago
I actually got a lot of leads from my last job search through LinkedIn. Not only did I message connections who were with companies I was interested in, but I found a lot of relevant listings in the job posting section (and actually heard back from recruiters). I'm guessing part of my success was due to the fact that the job postings section of the site hasn't reached critical mass like some of the larger job search sites (e.g. Monster).
Comment · 16 years ago
http://theshirtsite.com (No longer functioning) - I aggregated t-shirt designs across the web and built a centralized/searchable site for them. Every t-shirt I linked to was hooked up to some sort of affiliate program, so if the user clicked through and bought the shirt, I got a cut of the sale. Never really took off, but made a little cash for beer in my college years.
http://yaperture.com (Still up in artifact form) - A site for users to submit photos, have the community vote on the best, then we would mat, print, and sell them giving a user a cut of each sale. The market for real photography isn't that great, so it never generated enough money for us to break even. Regardless, it was a great experience and nice intro into some heavier development and co-founder life for me.
Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 17 years ago
E-TextEditor is pretty nice (http://www.e-texteditor.com/). As a longtime Textmate user on my Mac, I was looking for something to mimic that functionality on my Windows netbook. E also integrates with Cygwin and can be fully customized to your liking.
Comment · 17 years ago
For me, I run Ubuntu on my netbook. It's nice to run a similar editor when I'm away from my Mac.
Comment · 18 years ago
We did this with Yaperture (http://yaperture.com), sort of. The costs associated with the buying and shipping of frames was way too high for the average consumer. So, we compromised and sold the photos with thick museum-quality matting.