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Show HN: The Stumbleupon of Online Shopping (for Xmas) in 83,203 lines of R

shufflehub.com

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Oh look click bait on HN. It's a neat little hack, but saying something about how many lines of R it took to make this happen just left me looking for something more interesting, of which this is not.

Sorry! :-)

Oh, I don't know that I'd agree with you there. Come on, be honest -- when you read "83,203 lines of R", doesn't it give you even just the tiniest little frisson of horror?

From a UX perspective, I might consider dropping the amount of items per frame. It's a bit easy to be trigger happy, so users could end up tapping spacebar before all the items had a chance at drawing their attention. The success metric here is probably to draw users deep into the funnel as opposed to exposing them to as much as possible. Increase the "sense" that it's signal rather noise.

I like the icons depicting the categories/types btw!

Thanks very much!

And yeah that's a good point. You can scroll upwards (when hovering over the products) in case you miss anything when Shuffling. But we'll have a think about it all the same.

This thing is half baked. It doesn’t work in IE 9. I can understand not supporting 8, but 9 is easy. In Chrome your back button doesn’t work. If you don’t click the arrows just right, they don’t work either. And in general, I would imagine it might be difficult to sell products without product descriptions.

It's only 83,203 lines. Just wait until we get to 84,000! But yes - we have quite a few bugs. Just ran out of time to fix them before xmas had been and gone.

IE9 is still awful unfortunately. IE10 is the first IE that doesn't suck.

I'm intrigued about the large amount of statistical programming that has apparently gone into this site. Quite a high number of lines in the world's favourite Gaussian distribution generator.

No info at the link though :(

Every product you see is specifically tailored to your IP address and the IP address of all your Facebook Friends except the 100 friends you speak to least. And every time you click 'Shuffle' 0.00000000000000034 Bitcoins are mined and donated to the Church that's closest to your IP address.

No - right now it's a random generation of products from the gift sections of John Lewis, Selfridges and Urban Outfitters (and the socks section of ASOS). 83,203 lines was just to add a little HN xmas fun into the mix.

I can't figure out how the filter page works. What is being filtered? Is the blacked out square being filtered? Is there a way to filter by gender?

Yeah - we need to make that clearer. If you choose your filters and then click 'Shuffle' you'll be on your way.

Men / Women switch is top right hand corner of the filter page.

http://shufflehub.com is our main site (where the filters are from) and the Men / Women choice is right at the start.

cool stuff. My gf had an idea for a site like this for teacher's supplies.

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