Show HN: hateratio.com, how much hated?

4 points by bfcapell 14y ago ↗ HN

Hi people,

The other day I needed a tool to build quickly a site and wanted to know which one would cause me less trouble.

I decided to start googling about things like "drupal nightmares", "wordpress is driving me nuts" and things like that, and use the relative number of search results to decide which one to choose.

As the process of doing it manually is not very enjoyable I have built this site that uses this same idea. It can be entertaining to search whether Lenin or Stalin is preferred, discover that Romney is more hated than Obama, or that, coming back to my original query, I should use drupal instead of wordpress.

The site is here: http://www.hateratio.com

The current hate algorithm is pretty simple but gives acceptable results. I can improve it but I'm not sure if this site is of any real interest, or if there are existing and better options to do this kind of comparisons.

I'm using Bing instead of Google since the latter does not allow this kind of usages AFAIK. Doing some tests, I found Google results to be more consistent, but Bing's are good enough.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. I hope you like it and find it useful, or at least entertaining.

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BPm 14y ago ↗

"windows 278.9242055000443%" of hate wow. This thing amuses me. I like it. Fun idea. I bet many people would want to share the hate results on their twitter or facebook

shloime 14y ago ↗

I think it's a cool idea.

swanson 14y ago ↗

Neat project, reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's "Sucks/Rocks"

http://sucks-rocks.com/ https://github.com/garybernhardt/sucks-rocks https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/sucks...

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diwank 14y ago ↗

Nice idea. How about the ability to bookmark and share comparisons?

I'd so love to show off the fact that Mozilla has a hate-ratio of only ~ 1.7% while Microsoft has ahem..

SuperChihuahua 14y ago ↗

Hacker news: 0.0182099756842696% :) ...and it seems to break when you search for Wall Street ;)

bfcapell 14y ago ↗

Thanks people for your comments! Didn't know about "Sucks/Rocks", yes, the idea is basically the same. In fact, I considered using something like loveorhate.com but the domain was already taken.

It's curious that now, some days later, the "windows" and "wall street" hate ratio is down a lot. Oh and try querying "justin bieber"...