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Carmack's article inspired me greatly. For the past month I have been churning a product idea for a code analysis & program transformation tool for Python. Seeing someone like Carmack recommend tools like these feels like substantial validation of their usefulness.

While investigating the feasibility of my product idea, I have run across 3 interesting Python analysis tools that are often overshadowed by pyflakes & pychecker. You may find them relevant to your question:

- pylint (http://www.logilab.org/card/pylintfeatures): Already mentioned here, but the list of checks it will perform is humbling.

- Pyntch (http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pyntch/index.html): Type inference via graph analysis.

- Pypy's Annotation Pass (http://readthedocs.org/docs/pypy/en/latest/translation.html#...): Type inference via control flow graphs.

Anyone maintaining large Django or other Python projects who wants to chat about my product idea, email me (my HN username at Google's email service)! I am especially interested in any constructive skepticism you send my way. I am looking to refine my ideas into something that genuinely advances programming.

Thank you both for taking the time to comment. I wholeheartedly believe you are both right, as was my fiancee who told me the same thing. Three consenting opinions is enough to convince me.

But what can I say--I have a bad influence (http://paulgraham.com/articles.html)? ;)

I apologize if this text is duplicated elsewhere in my post. I've been lurking here since launch but have never posted.

The rising popularity of free open source software and free knowledge, like Wikipedia, excite my fiancee and me to no end. I imagine many industries can benefit from open and free philosophies. This manifesto explains our attempt to bring some of this culture into the real estate industry. The project is in its early stages--heavy prototyping and feature research.

Thoughts? Concerns? Good idea poorly executed? Bad idea decently executed? We present it to this fine community first; I figure if a bunch of open-minded entrepreneurs hate it, then I am probably off target for any audience.

Regarding the length, I understand it's wrong for the general public. At the moment we are targeting the copy to those people with a twinkle in their eyes--the ones who like to sweat the details and meditate on text. Hopefully those who merely skim it will catch at least one paragraph that turns on a light bulb.

For those who are lazy, like me, here is an abbreviated edition:

Consensus decision-making + free disinterested service + community moderation of listings and individuals + mobile features = the future of real estate established at rehomer.com

If you like the idea, point your real estate friends to the site; we will need legions of bright, courageous leaders to establish new standards of quality, possibly while under scrutiny from powerful competitors. If you dislike the idea, I respect your right to rip into me.