Ask HN: Review Bitme.me - rank urls with Bitly

by adatta02 • 17 years ago

16 5 17 years ago

It took me a bit to get "bit meme" instead of "bite me -dot- me"

In all brutal honestly, I won't use it (as HN already provides me the list of links I want to see), and I can't imagine that other people are really clamoring for yet another way to find cool links, what with digg, reddit, facebook, twitter, and all the others.

Still, as a fun project or a way to play with the bitly API, then I'd say it is a job well done :)

adam-_-• 17 years ago

So much mashable!

Barnabas• 17 years ago

Nice and snappy. I like that in a web app, so kudos there. Still, YSlow gives you a C for not gzipping or using a CDN. Personally, I see no real reason not to use something like Google's AJAX library hosting (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/) for your JQuery stuff, unless it's super custom.

Not clear on the significance of the numbers next to each link. Is this clicks in a certain time frame or ever? It will take repeated visits to see how often items get off the front page, so too soon to tell how fresh everything will be.

I think this is a useful idea because with all the RSS noise, it's nice to know what's getting attention. I doubt that a one-size all list of sites will continue to serve a wider audience though, like some kind of Techmeme. What about letting me give you my OPML and you weed out what is most interesting according to bit.ly? What about weighting clicks for domains based on their overall traffic to avoid the Mashable effect?

So, keep it up. Nice work!

bravura• 17 years ago

This would be useful if there were an API, that let people suck down that aggregated data and remix it.

adatta02• 17 years ago

what sort of data would you want access to? the urls discovered by topic or more like the clicks/url (since thats available from Bitly)

Ask HN: Review Bitme.me - rank urls with Bitly

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