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Show HN: weekend project, Find Similar Restaurants with the Hunch API

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Some excellent recommendations, I love it.

One small bug, a confirmation window shows up to select a restaurant, even when there is only 1 match to the text entered.

really? mine was off. I entered in a very very authentic Thai restaurant in LA which I love and expected to see some authentic Thai restaurant recommendations in Chicago - not at all. #fail

Nice. Bug: when i have the dropdown for "what I'm homesick for" but hit discover, the dropdown stays over the new overlay.

thanks for pointing that out. will investigate and forward to jQuery UI.

Very nice! I am not familiar with hunch's api. Could you share some internals on how you leveraged that?

hunch gives recommendations about pretty much everything, you can check out their api here: http://hunch.com/developers/v1/

i am specifically using "get-similar-results" and "get-recommendations" limited by the location you enter

Awesome work. Did you show this to Yelp as well to get their API limit increased?

no, thats a good idea lemme look into it

If you could build this for movies (and it works) I would pay 5 usd/year for it.

noted, i'll wordmerge the word "movies" and see if i can come up with any cool names for this ;?j

Be sure to notify me/us.

You totally can, with basically the same calls!

e.g. to find the film Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%...

id is hn_3575764, so then we can get movie recommendations for someone who likes Triplets of Belleville: http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_35...

Seems pretty reasonable: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Dr. Strangelove

I like it a lot. I had a similar idea to do this with Wine.

Nice.

dig it

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