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After buying a pair boots online last week, I found myself searching social sites to get a better idea of a) what they looked like b) how people like them. This resulted in me realizing there isn't a great site which provides this service. As such, I threw this together.

It's pretty basic, but searches Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter for the product you would like to see more about. My hope is to monetize it with some Amazon referrals. It's pretty scrappy right now, but I also added a very basic sentiment analysis so people can see both popularity ranking and overall sentiment for the current product.

I would love some feedback. I'm hoping my rate limits for all these APIs hold up until I can allow people to log in using their own accounts.

Great stuff... I'm working on a similar tool at the moment. Page load speeds were a bit sluggish for me. I'm guessing that's attributable to the large amount of javascript processing happening?

I was in the same boat. It made the platform unusable. That coupled with some of the worst and most apathetic customer support I have ever experienced, I swore to never go back.

I actually got a lot of leads from my last job search through LinkedIn. Not only did I message connections who were with companies I was interested in, but I found a lot of relevant listings in the job posting section (and actually heard back from recruiters). I'm guessing part of my success was due to the fact that the job postings section of the site hasn't reached critical mass like some of the larger job search sites (e.g. Monster).

http://theshirtsite.com (No longer functioning) - I aggregated t-shirt designs across the web and built a centralized/searchable site for them. Every t-shirt I linked to was hooked up to some sort of affiliate program, so if the user clicked through and bought the shirt, I got a cut of the sale. Never really took off, but made a little cash for beer in my college years.

http://yaperture.com (Still up in artifact form) - A site for users to submit photos, have the community vote on the best, then we would mat, print, and sell them giving a user a cut of each sale. The market for real photography isn't that great, so it never generated enough money for us to break even. Regardless, it was a great experience and nice intro into some heavier development and co-founder life for me.

http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/06/25/wakemate-android-demo/

E-TextEditor is pretty nice (http://www.e-texteditor.com/). As a longtime Textmate user on my Mac, I was looking for something to mimic that functionality on my Windows netbook. E also integrates with Cygwin and can be fully customized to your liking.

For me, I run Ubuntu on my netbook. It's nice to run a similar editor when I'm away from my Mac.

We did this with Yaperture (http://yaperture.com), sort of. The costs associated with the buying and shipping of frames was way too high for the average consumer. So, we compromised and sold the photos with thick museum-quality matting.

Yongfook (founder of Open Source Food) does some nice work. His Sweetcron lifestream project (http://sweetcron.com/) is pretty cool too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=241126

In case you missed the discussion last week...

NYYC Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc

That's a good point. I went ahead and created a Google Group in the event that this becomes a regular thing (http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc). From here on out I suggest we use the Google forum to suggest locations, dates, etc.

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I think the Radegast Beiergarten in Williamsburg (http://nymag.com/listings/bar/radegast-hall/) would be a great place to meet (long tables, beer steins, sausages) and it's very accessible for people of all boroughs (first stop in Brooklyn on the L-Bedford Ave). It tends to get crowded on Weekend nights but should be comfortable on a Sunday evening.

Full Disclosure: I live in Williamsburg. That said, I'm more than open to any other location in Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Or people that know Adobe...

I live in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and I know there is a lot of start-up activity around me as well. It's easy to build a web app, but building a beautiful web app requires some incredibly artistic and design-conscious people which I think NYC (and especially Brooklyn) are chock full of.

Reddit started in Boston. Although, it may have originally been conceived in Charlottesville (back me up here Alexis?). Regardless, not a Brooklyn start-up.

I'm down for NYC YC gatherings.

Agreed. I have been highly disappointed and unsatisfied with most of the tech meetups I have attended. The large majority of attendees I have met at the events are merely non-hackers with an "idea for a website."

Agreed. I currently have a VPS with Rimuhosting and it's just shy of $40-50/month. All servers come pre-configured with all the basics. If you ever need something installed/configured which is out your realm the support staff is great about guiding you how to do it or just doing it for you.

Since when was Facebook a "dating site for college kids" - it's amazing to me how out of touch mainstream media can be with the web.