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Rate Our Weekend Startup: Moodbeat. (moodbe.at)

11 points by mmattax ↗ HN
We built moodbe.at in a weekend and are launching today. Our goal is to track user sentiment across users, topics, and locations.

We plan to expand with embeddable widgets that allow our "mood bar" to be embedded within blogs, news stories, etc...

Please let us know what you think!

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struppi
It looks nice! It remindes me very much of an old project I had once - presentmood.com (now offline). I wrote about the history on my blog: http://davidtanzer.net/node/82

I hope you have more success with your project than I had back then. That is: I hope you are successful! All the best for the future - I still think that this idea has potential.

mmattax
Thanks for the comments and your blog post! Our idea came from a whiteboard we used at work to track our coworkers moods. We thought it be neat to see fluctuations with weather, days of the week, etc.

3 of us decided to build this idea into an app. I think it has potential to be used as an embeddable widget within blog posts, news stories, moview reviews.

struppi
I guess I'll have to write a follow-up on my blog mentioning your site ;)

An embeddable widget would be nice - back then when we implemented it we simply created dynamic gif images you could easily embed anywhere you wanted.

If you have any further questions or want to bounce ideas off with me feel free to contact me - You'll find my email address in my profile or my blog.

jeremyc98
Nice work! What is your mobile approach going to be? HTML5 or native apps? Or both? The mood slider is awesome!
mmattax
We have discussed a mobile HTML5 optimized site. We'd probably only go native mobile if this idea really catches on. We hope it does!
kylehankins
I would love to see a "push" mobile feature to notify you when people you follow change their mood.

That way I can show up out of no where and improve, or destroy someones day!

Muhahahahahaaaaaa.