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This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to be rude... What is the point of the website? It doesn't seem to do anything particularly useful... Perhaps your time would be better spent working on a website which would perform a useful task and maybe generate some money?

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If the information that a site is Ruby on Rails based is not useful to you, you're completely right.

I would like a website where you enter the url of another website and it gives you a list of technologies which it uses. One which just tells you if it uses rails seems to be of very limited usefulness.

let me try a pitch:

"If you provide Ruby/Rails hosting like Heroku, Engine Yard, RightScale etc. do, the database could contain up to 4300 potential new customers"

Add to your database which hosting provider the site is using (for those you can figure out). I think that really increases the value of your pitch and saves the sales people from having to cross reference to make sure they aren't pitching existing customers.

Try http://builtwith.com

Interestingly, builtwith.com did not recognize a project I am working on is built with Rails, whereas IsItRails.com was very sure that it was built with Rails.

What site is it?

http://getbizen.com.

It is hosted on Heroku and is Rails 3.0

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