Channel the voice of Paul Graham with WriteLikePaul.com

12 points by h34t ↗ HN
So this was a quick hack for the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon. As you type, it uses the last word you've entered to grab all the "next words" that Paul Graham might say. So if you type in "Startups", you'll see a list of words that have followed the word "startups" in PG's essays.

You can click on words to select them, or use up/down arrows to navigate and the right arrow to select.

It's simplistic and a bit buggy but was fun to build. I used Node.js, Express, Now.js, and Redis. It's hosted on a free Heroku Cedar instance.

http://www.writelikepaul.com

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I now call for a classic fixed round, but barring emergencies you do raise angel investments.
It turns out by taking a block of absolute returns, investors cause the best deals to close.
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"Beautiful highways running android, mountains on drugs"
"Never again play games with users, it's literally just like malaria."

This is pretty fun

Creative! "I worry we didn't think about investors' intentions so we'd be replaced by its opponents."
Students may also influence people doing something broken.

Nice.

"David Heinemeier Hansson gave up a dangerous drug addiction we funded."