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So they took this down, do you know if there is a replacement?

Ideas come to me late at night usually when I am falling asleep or if I have awoken from sleep. This is actually extremely annoying.

I am finding it a bit difficult to properly understand what this app does.

So it uncovers lost connections between the user and other people, where do the stories come into this?

Looks good, have you heard of twitter boostrap? Its a easy to use library to spice up the UI of web apps.

Awesome idea, but the background image (the cityscape) takes about 7 seconds to load for me. Try optimising it down to a smaller filesize?

It is hard for me to read the grey text on the white background, maybe darken it up a little?

I don't understand your point here, if bootstrap creates a good design which does the job well why would they be in need of a 'real' design.

I'm very interested to know how the voting ring detector works. I assume you use semi-supervised learning algorithms?

Maybe you should allow the user to test the product without having to go through the account creation process? You have no idea how tedious it is for me to see yet another account create form.

Maybe you could display the data as it is loading? So instead of making the user wait to see all the results you could show the user as the server drip feeds the results to the browser. Just a suggestion.

You produce a lot of data but it is hard to make sense of it all, maybe some kind of comparison tool would be useful?

Also I am very curious how you managed to do the whole nearby celebrity address thing?

This actually has a lot of potential, but I am not sure if you could profit by selling this to real estate agents as something like this kind of makes their job obsolete.

Maybe you could target the renters demographic, people who rent generally switch locations more often (therefore more recurrent to your service) and are not as accommodated by real estate agents and other third parties (probably because they are not spending as much so no fat commissions).

I don't know your business model very well but another idea is maybe leaving the service free and placing advertisements. Your user demographic is looking to buy or rent a property - very valuable to advertisers. So maybe you should cache the pages you generate and add them to an automatically generated sitemap allowing google to index those and hopefully you will start appearing on search results for people looking to buy a property. If you want to be really aggressive you could scrape property listings off real estate websites and pre-generate those to be indexed by google with the intention of appearing on search results.

Sorry, I'm rambling here ;)

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