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Just last week, I was in a slump and thought of looking for side-project inspiration by searching for all the ShowHN posts. This just works great because when you start bombarding your brain with lots of new ideas, you'd be surprised what you come up with :)

I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?

I don't have the bandwidth right now to manually curate. However, this sounds like a good idea for someone to do as a dedicated tumblr/posterous blog.

How does a site get on this showcase? Scraping HN or manual intervention?

It uses the search API (http://www.hnsearch.com/api) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post.

It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investigate when I get a chance. Usually things are up there realtime.

Is there a way to search for a particular showcased site?

(In case you're wondering why: I would like to find my own site on the showcase site without browsing through all the pages.)

There isn't a way right now, but I may add it in the next update. Having a perma link to a project is tricky as the projects shift back when new projects get posted.

Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.

Great idea... bookmarked! Great how you include the # votes and comments on each one.

This looks awesome. Great visualization and use of phantomjs. It seems like everyone loves to re-interpret HN. I'm no different, http://hnfluence.com.

Pretty cool. Is there an RSS/Atom feed I could subscribe to?

Not yet. I'll try to include that in the next update.

Wouldn't it be great is pg would link this page from HN itself?

I think the scrolling page numbers isn't the best. I would go stick to the traditional 1|2|3|4|5|...|29|30

I would prefer infinite scrolling as on e.g. http://lookbook.nu and http://images.bing.com/search?q=cat

This is great for most of the Show HN stuff that never makes the front page!

Great concept -- and I'm all about increasing the exposure of startups. :)

This should be part of the front page or I'll soon forget about it.

Cool. Did you use HTML5 canvas for the snapshots?

Nope. It's using PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/).

Love the concept! Great work! :)

great!

This looks like absolute trash in IE9.

Downvoted for telling the truth? Come on.

http://i.imgur.com/P11Ai.png

I'd suggest probably downvoted for telling the truth rudely is a more accurate explanation.

I did not downvote you, and I almost upvoted you again, but you could have said it better. Be nice.

I think the downvote was for using IE!

Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.

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