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I did this as part of my wedding proposal.

I wrote up a simple web app that accepted two different secrets to "login" (one for each person). Once logged in, you were presented with a photo and asked for a comment (first thing that comes to mind or a reaction).

If only one comment was submitted, it would tell you to remind your partner to leave a comment. Once both parties submitted a comment, the photo displayed with both comments and a countdown to the next photo. The countdown varied from 12-48 hours randomly - to give me time to figure out when to actually propose. This ran for several weeks total.

It was fun to see our comments - sometimes they would nearly match. Or reveal something we didn't remember about a historical date/event we shared.

I eventually used the site to pop the question, and then made the whole thing into a photo book, including a word cloud built from each of our comments. Was really fun to see each of our most common words.

It was an incredibly simple, fun project using flask/sqlite on an ec2 instance.

Likely much faster ways of going through this but to expand on your thought:

#!/bin/bash

     for (( i=1; $i < 1250646; i++))

     do

                curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/$i | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12 >> people.txt

     done

This seems great - the only thing stopping me from buying is knowing how annoyed my room mate would get after the first week or two.

Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?

My only suggestion might be to add some finer granularity to location. I zoom into Boston and just see one blob - when it might be nice to see zip-code level granularity.

I try to change my location to Cambridge MA, but it stays in Boston.

Maybe handle geocoding zip codes etc.?

Sorry in advance for horrible photo quality...

Nice and messy right now - was working on an GPS(RC)-Car Arduino project. Monitors not turned on due to the cluttered work-surface. (primary machine is a 15" santa rosa mbp) http://atk.me/files/170b56c8056c4aed4ad8f52e94182921.jpg

Couch-surfing setup with dell mini 10 (yes win7 - dual booting 10.04): http://atk.me/files/5642a6e504556e788427ad9f7d95f60b.jpg

Finally - my setup last year (not sure why mtvU was on.. used the TV for gaming every so often: http://atk.me/files/8d1798def07a5627c55c2173fc2daa52.jpg