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Show HN: Social Shopping Search with Sentiment Analysis (heyhi.com)
1 point by itsandrew on Jan 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



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.


Tried "wool t-shirt" http://www.heyhi.com/results/show?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=w... and got one photo of a kid and a link to an Amazon search I already did.

I think there's probably potential here -- but it wasn't useful to me today.




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