Ask HN: What should I do with this?

2 points by SMrF ↗ HN
Lookout lets you create Google alerts and then learns over time to only show you alerts you would care about. It's like Pandora, except instead of creating a station, you create a Google alert. It was meant for small PR agencies. I even had a few using it as I built it.

Life happened and I took a break from this project for a few months, and now that I've come up for air I started to work on Lookout again, but I realized I'm simply no longer interested in this project. Normally I find it fairly easy to scrap my projects and move on to the next thing, but for some reason I'm reluctant to do that here.

It needs a little work. The Bayesian filter isn't quite doing what I want it to do. You can't sign up for a new account because I was just manually creating accounts for people. Both of these could be knocked out in a weekend. Then what? The thought of putting some sort of billing system in place is not appealing -- I have other projects I want to work on and would rather not have this looming in the background.

So, what do you think I should do with it?

You can use the login: hn password: hn

url: http://www.lookoutthere.com

Click on a client, (remember, you work at a PR agency), to see news for that client.

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umm.. whats the connection between Tiger Woods and Accenture?

http://slinkingtowardretirement.com/?p=22559

And are all of the alerts from Google Alerts, or are you scraping news sites too from somewhere?

Tiger Woods used to be sponsored by Accenture. They dropped him after the scandal.

All alerts are from Google Alerts.

ah, ok.. got it..

So its basically an interface to Google Alerts then. Why not throw it on github and opensource it?