Tell HN: Something I made to see where something was posted first.

[jacktasia]

I've heard that it's pointless and the name is horrible. Although I don't want to give up quite yet. Ideas for a better name / to make it more worthwhile would be great. Thanks.

http://dexjra.com/where_first

[shaddi]

Clickable: http://dexjra.com/where_first

Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is either, but it sure is interesting. Definitely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

[hga]

A bit strange but promising.

What can I say about a site where every couple of minutes spent on it I find something very interesting? Granted, some of those were tests of stuff I knew should be in the database, but it's still quite encouraging and the serendipitous discoveries were great.

Don't give it up yet unless you have to!

[pg]

How about upstreamist?

[jacktasia → pg]

Sounds good. I bought the domain. You made my day.

[jacktasia → pg]

and thank you!

[_delirium]

If you have any data, I'd be curious how Slashdot fits in. Anecdotally, I notice a lot of borrowing in both directions between HN and Slashdot.

[jacktasia → _delirium]

I don't have the Slashdot data...but it's certainly a good idea. Not sure how I didn't take to get data from them too. Thanks.

[staunch]

Just some domain ideas: firstp0st.com, subunderground.com, subspring.com.

[bseo]

When I read the title I thought you made something that found the original source of a syndicated/re-posted article.

Anyway, since you have a database of submissions to HN, Reddit and Digg, there's alot of interesting things to do.

Off the top of my head, how about a side-by-side view of parallel discussions?

EDIT, some more suggestions:

Make a downloadable dump of your data at the end of each day. Would be useful for all the people scraping HN for their own purposes/websites.

Twitter would be more useful than Digg, although all the short-urls do pose a problem.

Your top15 page (http://dexjra.com/row_view) is strange. Why isn't HN there except the "First at Hacker News view" part?

[jacktasia → bseo]

I used to have all three sources in the top15 and then some non-programmers said I should remove it...it would be trivial to add that back in. It's really about who I am trying to reach. Ideally I would have different types/sections for mainstream (reddit.com front page, digg.com,etc) and then computer people (proggit, HN, etc). I just wasn't sure which direction to take it. Thanks for your feedback.

I'll make a dump of the data...what format do you think would be best?

Thanks for your feedback.

[bseo → jacktasia]

I'd rather have tracking deeper than the first page of each site, than themed sections, not that it's a bad idea.

I wouldn't mind CSV or JSON data and I'm sure some people would prefer XML. Should be trivial to make dumps in each of those formats.