HackerPolls: my mini project for visualizing HN Polls

hackerpolls.heroku.com

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With some free time over the past few days, I created this app to learn github, mechanize, and try out Highcharts (no affiliation, I just though it looks nice). Please feel free to add any missing polls.

How about just crawling through and grabbing all the polls instead of manually adding them?

There're probably less than 50 polls, it's overkill for a small hobby project like this. Plus people can add/update future polls manually.

Any chance that you're storing snapshots of the results? Since HN polls apparently do not close, it might be interesting to watch things change over time.

Would it be possible to make a grid of all the polls and their results? Simply scaling images of the charts might suffice. I generally like to avoid browsing around whenever possible.

i think the update link on the status line can be use to get poll result at the moment

I keep getting this error when trying to add a poll:

The change you wanted was rejected.

Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to.

Weird, Safari crashes once I click a poll and see the graph :|

Not for me. Safari 4.0.4, OS X 10.6.2.

There is no problem on my version of Safari. I'm running Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

It does for me as well. Safari 4.0.4 on OS X 10.6.2

something is wrong there, isn't it? http://hackerpolls.heroku.com/polls/4 (I mean, the %)

That first percentage is for the general population. The original poster included them with the option names

Oh. Pretty awesome then! :)

Nice! I think you got horizontal and vertical mixed up.

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