10 apps in 50 days: Launch #1

radio.poetic.ly

15 points·sleepdev··6 comments

This is definitely a terrific way for learning new stuff (you have now the HN community watching you). However, don't also forget that for most applications, their success/failure will be also determined by the spit and polish applied on them. Don't get carried away over the "quantity", always be mindful of "quality" too.

Update: I read your intention behind this here: http://terrorified.com/?p=786

Now I better understand your motivation. All the best.

I clicked the link, and the random band-picker picked Eagles for me. So the line on the top said "I'm in the mood for Eagles videos", and the video playing under it was Iron Maiden's Where Eagles Dare.

Just the old demo effect, I'm sure.

I typed in "cats" and got exactly what I expect. Nice job :)

How is this different than scraping the results of a youtube search and embedding a result?

This keeps a playlist of what you liked and uses that to recommend videos, allowing you to personalize and filter down the videos to only what you are interested in.

Example: Searching for "haskell" will give you videos about people named haskell as well as the programming language. After adding a few example videos to your list, you will get only results related to the programming language. The idea is to start to combat the incredible amount of noise in search results: believe it or not, not everyone enjoys rick rolls and gophers.

Ok, that is awesome. You should put some text explaining that somewhere on the page.

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