Talkfast, a blog tied to a Hacker News-adjacent startup community, covers HN filtering feeds, Twitter lists, angel investing, and startup mistakes.
HN commenters link it for its HN300 and HN500 feeds that filter by upvotes and its list of Twitter users followed by HN readers.
Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.
As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...
EDIT:
I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:
- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds
- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.html / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)
neat, and a nice clean demo of django.
myself, i wrote a HN clone one afternoon (when HN was down for several hours) using flask. since i'm the only user, i feed it with twitter. what i did was set up a twitter account - @hacktweetnews - and have it follow most of the top twitter users from the HN community [1] and then score it reddit-like. no votes aside from what people post as duplicates, no comments - so it definitely lacks the full features you have, but then again it's just me. however, like your django example, it was super easy to set up in a framework. yours is definitely far more feature-filled!
1. http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news/
Edit: Thanks for reporting Alex! I was missing 3 other users from the leadersboard. Should be all good now.
Hi Alex. I am sorry you were not listed. My first user sources were hnsearch[1][2] and on Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News[3].
I am adding the leader's list to the user discovery, and this should be solved shortly.
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&sortby=karma+desc
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.com&sortby=karma+desc&start=0
[3] http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news
Assuming you know what you're doing or have a sense for what you believe the payout profile to be like, here's some metrics of the payout for N deals.
If you're at all risk averse, you probably want a percentile more like the 10th percentile payout, but this shows 50th percentile.
http://talkfast.org/2010/04/28/angel-investing-simulation-part-2
Here's a list of 55 users by Micrypt of some of the people who have been in/visit #startups/HackerNews:
https://twitter.com/micrypt/startups-freenode/members
There's also a list of Twitter users who are most followed by the HackerNews Community here:
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news/
The web site is unreadable on a Blackberry (not that that matters much).
What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?
See @newsyc20, @newsyc50, @newsyc150.
See also: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/