So cool! This is what I had started working on for the HNSearch API Contest, but I hadn't gotten far. I'm SO glad someone did this. I feel as though this could be made into a useful and viable product, if marketed correctly and accurate enough.
Do you mean as like a dashboard for a bunch of different social news sites? What would be some killer features that you think would make it in to something people would pay for?
Eventually, yes, adding sites like Reddit, even newspapers, trending topics on twitter (and then evaluating the mood of tweets with the keyword(s).
Also, allowing them to see the popularity of certain trends (traffic, if you will). I am not familiar with the industry…maybe the product exists…but it seems incredibly useful!
