Erik Finman

Astrobot — Browse The Web Over SMS

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Erik Finman
I came across Nate Parrot's goal to make 10 products in 10 days! I've been working on Intern For A Day (http://internforaday.co/) where companies/interns meetup to actually work with each other rather than impersonal job interviews/resumés. I live life by the credo of learning by doing and I do that my learning something new everyday! And that's what Nate Parrot is doing too! He's just going "SCREW IT! I'm doing this!" and learning hugely along the way by building something new everyday! And it blows my mind! So far he's done 3 products in 3 days so far which I'll be posting to Product Hunt all today. And I'll continue to post the next 7 over the next 7 days! Stay Tuned for more hunts!
Erik Finman
Also Here's Nate Parrots description of the open source code: "I'm having a not-very-creative and not-very productive day, so I decided to open-source and document the natural-language-command-parsing library I made for building Astro-bot . It's called "commanding" and it lets you parse commands like "search the web for kanye west now dammit!" into structured data like {intent: "search", "query": "kanye west"} by providing lots of examples. It's sort of like wit.ai but cheaper and shittier and only 157 lines of Python. " https://github.com/nate-parrott/...
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This is, of course, my shameless ripoff of Cosmos Browser (http://cosmosbrowser.org/) — it takes the idea of browsing over SMS even further by eliminating the app, making it much, much more accessible and much, much less enjoyable to use.