dchuk, it would be great if the article opened with a affhub topbar to it vote up or down so that you don't have to go back to find the story again to vote on it eg like flippa does here For Sale on Flippa
I built a social feed aggregator (AllTop meets Reddit) - HubFrenzy.com
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I know right? I'll look into mobile stuff, might be a good reason for me to finally build something with JQuery Mobile...
I was thinking about doing this, I just wasn't sure if people liked that or it annoyed them...it makes sense though, so I'll plan it out and try and bang on it during the Packers game tomorrow.
yeah, I need to figure out how to do the rss feeds actually, I want to do a feed of the top posts per hub, but it makes my brain melt thinking about how that would work as it's not necessarily a linear set of posts (like a traditional rss feed)...I'll look at how hacker news and I think reddit do it and come up with something.
Facebook was being stupid when I went to make a button. I had no idea linkedin had buttons. I'll add them both though.
As someone who has medium experience hacking together PHP to do my bidding (mostly modifying Wordpress themes/plugins) and is trying to teach himself Ruby (and then RoR)...what would you say your coding level is?
Is this the type of thing a beginner could put together fairly easily assuming they know how to look things up skillfully? Or would you say a project like this is a bit more advanced?
Nice site and lightning fast.
Is this the type of thing a beginner could put together fairly easily assuming they know how to look things up skillfully? Or would you say a project like this is a bit more advanced?
Nice site and lightning fast.
dchuck's a pro, however this souldn't be too difficult for a beginner, would just take a while (certainly longer than 15 hours).
I've been coding professionally for a long time, so I'd say I'm an advanced hacker (didn't do computer science in school, just been building shit for years).
The learning curve for Rails is like a bell curve: it's easy and fun when you start and follow tutorials, then gets mega hard as you start straying from the guides and doing stuff on your own, then gets easy again when you have a few projects under your belt.
Deploying Rails apps is still a bitch (you could use heroku but they're pricey). I am way happier coding in ruby than php though, and I've done a ton of both.
cool site, only problem i see with this is:
1. not enough content daily to bother going back
2. gonna take a lot of people to get it started and keep it going so new content gets up voted.
3. If a blogger really wanted their stuff up voted they could pay people to up vote it. Doesn't sound like a big problem until someone is peddling a crap product then the credibility of the site will be hurt.
4. affbuzz pretty much has a monopoly in this space right now (even if it is like 1,000 marketers).
Just wanted to give you some feedback. I really like the idea, I just don't think there is enough 1. content in the AM world to make this work as intended. 2. Enough traffic to keep a up vote down vote system going without being abused.
Just my feedback, love the site. Good luck!
1. not enough content daily to bother going back
2. gonna take a lot of people to get it started and keep it going so new content gets up voted.
3. If a blogger really wanted their stuff up voted they could pay people to up vote it. Doesn't sound like a big problem until someone is peddling a crap product then the credibility of the site will be hurt.
4. affbuzz pretty much has a monopoly in this space right now (even if it is like 1,000 marketers).
Just wanted to give you some feedback. I really like the idea, I just don't think there is enough 1. content in the AM world to make this work as intended. 2. Enough traffic to keep a up vote down vote system going without being abused.
Just my feedback, love the site. Good luck!
this is great, would really appreciate if you could add a marketing section with content from people like seth godin, might be hard to find them though.
May I ask, what percentage of you code is covered by unit tests?
Lol, I'm not much of a unit tester.
Yeah, that's actually why I built this out with no real topic, then hubs for each major one. I was originally going to just build an affiliate centric one, but then just remapped it a bit to allow for any top.
Getting users is of course the major problem (quite honestly, I've almost started working on starting a company that all it does is help people kickstart forums and social communities).
I do think I can take a chunk out of affbuzz with this, we'll see though.
I'll start workin on it!
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Added RSS feeds for each hub, the feed contains the top posts for that Hub upon request. You can see one here: Internet Marketing
I'm going to add a ton more blogs to the IM and SEO Hubs this week, as well as build out the persistent header when visiting the original post so you can vote and go back to comments easily.
I'm going to add a ton more blogs to the IM and SEO Hubs this week, as well as build out the persistent header when visiting the original post so you can vote and go back to comments easily.
Can you send me an example? Just tested and it looks fine. The problem with the RSS working is people need to be voting on the items or it will never update
