Ask HN: What should I do with this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161265
by SMrF • 15 years ago
2 4 15 years ago

Lookout lets you create Google alerts and then learns over time to only show you alerts you would care about. It's like Pandora, except instead of creating a station, you create a Google alert. It was meant for small PR agencies. I even had a few using it as I built it.

Life happened and I took a break from this project for a few months, and now that I've come up for air I started to work on Lookout again, but I realized I'm simply no longer interested in this project. Normally I find it fairly easy to scrap my projects and move on to the next thing, but for some reason I'm reluctant to do that here.

It needs a little work. The Bayesian filter isn't quite doing what I want it to do. You can't sign up for a new account because I was just manually creating accounts for people. Both of these could be knocked out in a weekend. Then what? The thought of putting some sort of billing system in place is not appealing -- I have other projects I want to work on and would rather not have this looming in the background.

So, what do you think I should do with it?

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