I built a social feed aggregator (AllTop meets Reddit) - HubFrenzy.com

dchuk

dchuk

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I browse sites like affbuzz.com and affdaily.com fairly frequently but I fucking hate the way they organize content on them, it doesn't make sense to clump stuff together like that. So a few weeks back, I set out to finally build a social site (I've kind of always wanted to do it) that pulled in rss feeds but then had an interface like Reddit where you can vote on things and then a time decay algorithm ranks the best content each day. After about 15 hours of coding, I managed to built out and deploy HubFrenzy.com and am pretty happy with it currently.

It's built on Ruby on Rails running behind nginx on a 512mb Linode (will probably crash as users grow, I'll have to upgrade the setup at some point). I used Twitter Bootstrap to template the site really quickly without having to really worry about design or slicing and dicing. I used a bunch of ruby gems to bootstrap functionality quickly including Devise, Feedzirra, Ancestry, and ThumbsUp (and a few others but meh). I have a list going of stuff I want to keep adding and tweaking on the site, but for now I'm happy with it. I do plan on adding the ability to submit a feed to get added to the site, just haven't gotten to that as well. For now, if you have an idea for a Hub and a few feeds you want to see in it, let me know with a PM and I'll get it setup over the weekend.

I've populated it with a few good hubs I figured this crowd would be interested in, so jump in there and start voting and commenting. Hopefully this will be a good alternative to the AffBuzz.com style layout I've grown to loathe.

Here are direct links to relevant hubs:

Internet Marketing Top Posts - HubFrenzy
SEO Top Posts - HubFrenzy
Startups Top Posts - HubFrenzy

(also, I gave all the feeds cute little icons, including all the IM feeds for the lulz. Enjoy)

TL;DR Link: HubFrenzy
 
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thanks for the replies guys. I probably should have been more clear about me not posting this to show off at all, I honestly bootstrapped every single major piece of it, so it's really more an example of some ninja researching and planning, my actual coding was not that impressive. I suppose that highlights the power of Rails and all the gems out there though.
 
dchuk said:
thanks for the replies guys. I probably should have been more clear about me not posting this to show off at all, I honestly bootstrapped every single major piece of it, so it's really more an example of some ninja researching and planning, my actual coding was not that impressive. I suppose that highlights the power of Rails and all the gems out there though.
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aww how cute.....he's modest too.

dchuk <3
 
I was expecting the left sidebar to slide down with me when I scrolled...damn that shit used to annoy me so much, but now I sort of expect it
 
I've been using Twitter Bootstrap lately too. It's so awesome to not have to look at shit ugly things while trying to quickly push out some ideas.
 
wiredniko said:
Ability to RSS please
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as ironic as aggregating feeds into new feeds is, I actually am planning (down the road once there's a user base actively commenting and voting) to create an RSS feed system where you can subscribe to the best posts for each Hub. Will be really cool once done, but that's a while away as of now.
 
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