Show HN: Online thesaurus

This is a website I just launched.

I've solely been doing Android stuff for the past three years. The last Android app I launched, in conjunction with another programmer, was a Thesaurus app. There are a few Android thesaurus apps out there, but ours does all the EFIGS languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish) as well as one or two others.

The Android app is built on such things as the BSD licensed MyThes library and the LGPL licensed Hunspell library. We connect to the open source C/C++ libraries via JNI, do some Android UI and some other coding, and voila, a useful app. MyThes does the thesaurus part, Hunspell is useful for certain things - like finding word stems so that we are accepting plural for nouns (mouse or mice), or some different tenses for verbs (sing, singing, sung).

All the different language libraries were too big to pack with the Android APK so we made the language libraries free download packs. But then the app is useless while it is being downloaded. So I wrote a backend API to do MyThes/Hunspell on a Linux VPS and ctypes C/C++ library foreign functions for Python, so that people could avoid downloading the language packs if they wanted, or at least could search words while waiting for their language pack to download.

Once all that was in place, I said to myself, why not throw a website up? Most of the work has been done. So I did.

Right now Adwords is rejecting my site for being a "placeholder". At first I thought it was due to an earlier crawl, or it's bare bones nature, but then I realized the site didn't work well if Javascript was turned off. So I've made some accommodations for that.

I haven't launched a website on which I plan to make revenues from ads since 1999, so even though it is bare bones I am excited. It has a lot of that open source person-hours behind it as well. There's a few English thesauruses online, but I don't see much for some of the languages we've done. So if Google smiles on the changes done, perhaps it will have some popularity in Europe, as these other language thesauruses seem as scarce on the web as they are in Android apps.