EveryBlock (Adrian Holovaty's newest) launches - hyperlocal news for NYC, Chi, SF

http://blog.everyblock.com/2008/jan/23/launch/

by pchristensen • 19 years ago

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PJCrosier• 19 years ago

Should be interesting to see how this natural step up from chicagocrime.org evolves, I'm not from the US but the three initial cities have kept me clicking around for a while - reading the team's past interviews / posts I'd expect them to put a lot into EveryBlock, and it seems they have. Can't wait to see what the site is like in a year!

zach2• 19 years ago

We've been working on similar stuff using what we learned from our real estate startup, and it's great to see something big in this space. Although having the experience of how hard it is for a startup to pry uncommon information out of government officials, we're not focusing on that aspect!

It's honestly a lot easier for startups when people don't have to fully engage their imagination to understand your business idea. I know that sounds cynical, but it's just a practical fact. People get more excited when they can quickly relate to something and "start the gears turning" about an idea right away.

joshwa• 19 years ago

This is the non-blog data companion to http://outside.in/ ?

nanijoe3• 19 years ago

There is no doubting the fact that Adrian loves the color green.. just check out the django site.

adrianh• 19 years ago

Actually, that was Wilson Miner, who designed both djangoproject.com and everyblock.com.

nanijoe3• 19 years ago

I just checked out wilsonminer.com ...guess what color it is :)

nanijoe3• 19 years ago

@zach,

have you checked zachbaker.com recently? This is what I get:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Articles#index

Mysql::Error: Table 'zbtypodb.users' doesn't exist: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users

zach2• 19 years ago

Thanks. I've nearly forgotten that it isn't running. I had a crazy experience moving my account between Dreamhost accounts and ended up trying to repeatedly send my Typo database through a webform 500K at a time -- enough said. I'll fix it now.

I stick with Dreamhost primarily because the founders were in my college class (yeah, I'm a YC senior citizen), so I beg your pardon for my sentimentality.

gibsonf1• 19 years ago

This is very promising - nice work.

ALee• 19 years ago

This is a pretty cool site. I know a number of soccermoms who religiously check a crime blog for the neighborhood, they're also interested to know when a park or YMCA closes too, but I guess they'll have to program that themselves from an API.

EveryBlock (Adrian Holovaty's newest) launches - hyperlocal news for NYC, Chi, SF

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