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Work · May 1, 2011

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Show HN my Hackathon Project: Visual Craigslist w/ HN's algorithm

The concept was to rethink the way we browsed Craigslist and shopped online. The main section, the "homepage" is a tree map of recent craigslist posting sorted by popularity using a slightly modified version of Hacker News' ranking algorithm. The newest page is a masonry view of the realtime stream of the craiglist posts as they are added to the system (much like Hacker News' newest page.) The top page is the masonry view version of the homepage. The game page is a FaceMash-like game for the posts, which influences the overall scores and popularity of items.

Show HN my Hackathon Project: Visual Craigslist w/ HN's algorithm launched on May 1, 2011 with 42 votes, #18 of 217 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Visual Craigslist reimagines browsing classified listings using Hacker News' ranking algorithm. The platform displays recent Craigslist posts in a tree map sorted by popularity, offers a real-time masonry view of new listings, and includes a FaceMash-style game where users vote on posts to influence their rankings. It provides multiple browsing modes—homepage, newest, top, and game—designed to make shopping online more engaging and discoverable than traditional Craigslist browsing.

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