Show HN: iGeek.at, Our Yahoo HackDay India App

igeek.at

17 points·prateekdayal··8 comments

This is the app we made for 2011 Yahoo hack day India. Its basically a usesthis.com for everyone. The idea is to showoff apps that you use and discover more apps.

You can basically build and browse profiles like these - http://igeek.at/deryldoucette

We have a bunch of apps right now but we wanted to put it out on HN and see what people think about this. If you want to see some app added, please let us know. Also, we would appreciate any feedback. This is a side project right now but if there is a lot of interest, we are certainly keep on working more on this.

about.me for the geeks. Cool. http://igeek.at/satyajit

This is pretty nice! But is twitter sign-in a first step or will it always stay like this? Could be nice to add a small post explaining why we love a specific app! And on the same idea, could be nice to say the app we will NEVER use again !

We used Twitter sign in because we wanted to make it super easy to try out the app. We just ask for read permissions.

Thanks for the suggestions. We'll keep this in mind when working on the next revision of the app.

Isn't this basically iusethis.com ? (random profile: http://osx.iusethis.com/user/arne)

Is this sorta like Wakoopa? ( http://social.wakoopa.com )

Yes. I think Wakoopa does something similar. I had never seen it before. iGeek is more inspired by usesthis and about.me so we are focusing more on profiles that you can use in your email signature/twitter profile etc.

Wakoopa tracks all the apps using its tracker... This is listing what one likes to use.. or most uses... no tracker..

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