my Hackathon Project
Consumer and social
classifieds browsing
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks beautiful and is fun to browse
From 3 comments
It's beautiful. I don't know if Craigslist is the optimal medium, but I like looking at it. Nice work!
markkat on HNNice work!
blaines on HNThis is pretty cool. I am currently shopping for a motorcycle and it is much nicer to be able to browse the images. I do wish that it didn't gray out the image on hover though.
joshontheweb on HN
Objections
Scraping may burden Craigslist bandwidth and get banned
From 2 comments
Too bad this will probably be banned for eating up a lot of CL bandwidth. See prior hack called listpic:…
hung on HNHow do you parse craiglist in realtime? Won't they block your server?
ivanzhao on HN
Unclear what the site is about and the game mechanic is confusing
From 2 comments
Seeing it on android... Can't understand what the site is about.maybe something is not working
gcb on HNI don't understand the Game part of the website. How does picking one item among a pair of two completely different items (e.g. a motorcycle helmet vs. Castor oil) influence…
hansy on HN
Clicking images does nothing
From 2 comments
How do I get to the Craigslist ads? Clicking on the images appears to do nothing under Mac OS and Chrome.
anonymoushn on HNWorking on this feature. We ran out of time to implement this for the hackathon.
progolferyo on HN
Requests
Make images link to the Craigslist ads
From 2 comments
How do I get to the Craigslist ads? Clicking on the images appears to do nothing under Mac OS and Chrome.
anonymoushn on HNWorking on this feature. We ran out of time to implement this for the hackathon.
progolferyo on HN
Stop graying out images on hover
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I am currently shopping for a motorcycle and it is much nicer to be able to browse the images. I do wish that it didn't gray out the image on hover though.
joshontheweb on HN
Questions
How does the game affect scores when items are unrelated
From 2 comments
I don't understand the Game part of the website. How does picking one item among a pair of two completely different items (e.g. a motorcycle helmet vs. Castor oil) influence…
hansy on HNThe images are just pulled from a single category on craigslist. So we currently have no way of separating out the motorcycles from the motorcycle helmets, without further…
progolferyo on HN
How is Craigslist data fetched without being blocked
From 2 comments
How do you parse craiglist in realtime? Won't they block your server?
ivanzhao on HNYou'd be surprised, but our entire service does not make a single request to the craigslist servers. We get the craigslist postings from the 3taps API, which themselves scrape…
SeoxyS on HN
Alternatives named
Original listpic hack for Craigslist
From 1 comment
Too bad this will probably be banned for eating up a lot of CL bandwidth. See prior hack called listpic:…
hung on HN