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Out of curiosity, what was the outcome of The HN Proposition 1.0?

Edit: http://www.simonnouwens.com/hn/index.php/2019/03/31/init-com... answers the question

"The idea gained some traction, and hmexx received over 250 emails, which were filtered down to 5 picks. Out of those 5, three were discontinued (1 after market research, 2 after failure to deliver MVP). The 2 ideas that were put online appear to be http://parametrek.com (an experimental product search) and http://www.textrep.com (an open-house notification system). Both projects as well as the experiment ended up floating somewhere on the software-graveyard, which is a shame, as the idea is great and the premises are (mostly) correct. Besides that the proposition generated a lot of community interest, which ended up being unused by the project." -- http://www.simonnouwens.com/hn/index.php/2019/03/31/init-com...

I point people to the flashlight search on paranetrek all the time. I had no clue about the backstory.

If you want a new flashlight check out http://flashlights.parametrek.com/

Everything he wrote about that was wrong.

I was never accepted into the original Proposition. I did not get any money or advice. But my elevator pitch was good enough to convince me to go through with it anyway. And I'm hardly "floating in the software graveyard."

But I am glad you enjoy my site ^_^

Rectified this on my website, and apologies to parametrek for getting it wrong (and suggesting the project failed). Only found some sparse information online, and failed to do my homework properly after that. It's a pity hmexx didn't share too much of the results, would have been an interesting piece of information.

Sorry parametrek, didn't intend to bash your work - you obviously did better in the side-project business then I did so far :)

Hi I really like the site, kudos.

Are you still open-sourcing the search tech? The github link on your site is broken. Cheers.

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