Hi HN, we're Rory and Conor - two undergrads in Dublin. Metro lets you write your own data-collection plugins which others can install to donate/sell data to your project. The DataSources are dynamically plugged into our Chrome Extension when you press "enable DataSource" on a Metro project's page.
Metro is just 3 months old and we just opened the site for public signups this morning, but hopefully it works okay and you can do some useful stuff with it. We're full-time students and learning as we go, so keep an open mind (and let us know!) if you find any bugs or problems.
The feature you might like best is Open Data projects, which are projects which give every contributor access to all of the data.
Yeah unfortunately we aren't UX experts (this is the first website I've made actually) and we've been focused on building the backend and desktop site, so we haven't made the website responsive yet.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadMetro is just 3 months old and we just opened the site for public signups this morning, but hopefully it works okay and you can do some useful stuff with it. We're full-time students and learning as we go, so keep an open mind (and let us know!) if you find any bugs or problems.
The feature you might like best is Open Data projects, which are projects which give every contributor access to all of the data.