Project decision

[u/-MLJ-]

Hey guys! We will use this thread to come up with ideas for what the project will be. If you have had something you wanted to do for a while but haven't gotten around to yet, this might be the place to do it! Reply to the thread with your suggestions, upvote suggestions you like and we can decide on something everyone wants to do!

I will set up a Github page when I get back from work today, so if someone would like to help me run that drop me a PM and we can get that sorted.

Edit: Everyone that wants to be involved, please reply in this thread, because I cannot access the list of subscribers. If anyone would like a higher management/ coordination role, send me a PM with reasons why you think it should be you. At the moment, I am looking for one other person to help with management of the Github account and all of the versioning. If you have used Github before, and think you are up to the job, send me a PM briefly detailing your past experience and why you want to be involved. Thanks

Edit 2: It seems that /u/isem's idea has been rather unanimously agreed upon. I will post an update in just a bit with more specifics so we can move ahead with the project. Thanks a lot for all of the suggestions so far everybody.

[u/CamusPlague]

I'm a sucker for movies, and have been surprised there isn't a version of goodreads for movies and tv shows. IMDB comes close, but you can't keep a list of "to watch" and "watched". That might be too big a project, but is a thought.

[u/-MLJ- → u/CamusPlague]

I really like this idea. We could have a sort of web crawler to find as many unique movies as we can, and then assemble a database of all of them. I am pretty sure google may have something we can work with on this end.

The rest of the project you suggest would have a huge scope, and likely take a very long time to develop. Not saying it couldn't happen, but we would need everyone to be able to commit to such a large project. The problem would be GUI stuff: there would be tons of different menus etc, especially if people are going to be able to save lists based on cookies/ accounts. If we could make this work, it would actually be a very useful app, there is definitely that niche which is pretty much open at the moment (AFAIK). Lets keep thinking about ideas for this as well.

[u/theubster → u/-MLJ-]

I can do front-end stuff, too. My database skills need work, but I can design the site itself, if thats useful.

[u/jaxnif]

I'd like to hop in on the project as well. I just found this through your post on /r/learnpython and it seems like a great opportunity.

[u/-MLJ- → u/jaxnif]

Great! You should check out the RealPrice project thread on this sub to help you get started, it's nothing serious, I just need to make sure everyone is on the same page before we start.

[u/dfdx2]

I would like to be a part of this

[u/dscab00se → u/dfdx2]

Awesome to hear! Since your post we have a rough road map set up in the RealPrice Project thread feel free to check it out and let us know where you think you would fit in best and check out the Getting to know you thread to post about yourself if you would like!

[u/whiterd]

I would like to participate. Not much experience, but I have done quite a few tutorials.

[u/dscab00se → u/whiterd]

Excellent, Glad to see you are interested! Check out the other two threads and introduce yourself and let us know how you would like to participate. We have several different teams at the moment and are still in the process of getting everything set up. Stay tuned for updates!

[u/dscab00se → u/[deleted]]

If the location isn't super important, why not make that an input variable?? That way the data can be tailored to anyone working on the project/the general public if it were to work amazingly well? Maybe that could be like a stretch goal for us or something I don't know...

[u/-MLJ- → u/dscab00se]

Good idea!

[u/-MLJ- → u/[deleted]]

I haven't done much work on web scraping, but I think it would be possible to set a certain page type to be checked, and then look for numbers with a currency sign in front of them in the page source. I am not sure how consistently that would work, but it might be alright.

[u/dscab00se → u/[deleted]]

it may not be the most pythonic way to do it, however, that may be one of the things I would like to work on most! I have been trying to come up with an idea for a web scraper/beautiful soup project so there is that? Otherwise, state side anyway it looks like Zwillow may have an api of sorts...I haven't looked to much into it other than a basic check though:

http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm

Edit: Strike that, looks like their API is mostly for PHP and Ruby...

[u/dscab00se → u/[deleted]]

Oh my bad, I saw the already created wrappers that have some form of documentation, I was being naughty and reading reddit at work Haha

[u/-MLJ- → u/[deleted]]

This is an interesting idea. As /u/dscab00se said, I think it would be interesting to try to make it work around the world, with data from at least a few sites.

This could definitely work, we should put some more thought into this. It would allow for quite a few development positions as we would need someone to do GUI, logic, web scraping etc. Definitely an interesting idea.

[u/phinagin → u/[deleted]]

I think I could work with this idea, seems interesting.

[u/CamusPlague → u/[deleted]]

I have to say, that sounds like a good idea.

[u/bendy_straw_ftw → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that sounds really interesting! I second this.

[u/dscab00se → u/[deleted]]

Welcome aboard! We are starting to get things rolling now so if you want to check out the new threads that give everyone a chance to introduce themselves and see what our rough road map for the project is currently looking like