Build an app that uses Hacker News comment data to rank commenters based on comment sentiment (saltiness/negativity).
App rates and ranks hacker news commenters by negativity of comment sentiment (limited to commenters who have made x number of posts). Allows users to search by username to view comments and sentiment levels of specific users.
- User creation/login flow
- User can view a feed of negative comments from DS API
- User can save their favorite salty comments to the backend
- User can delete saved comments
App also displays the sentiment of individual comments by user allowing drilldown to a user view.
- Create a way to share the funniest/worst trolls on twitter.
- Use filter to display the cards in different ways depending on what the user wants to see and what is available in the DS API (ie funniest, most sarcastic, etc.)
- Create a way to visualize the trolls that show up most frequently in a given time period.
Hacker's Saltiest 2019 Proposal
What problem does your app solve? Our app uses Hacker News comment data to rank comments based on the comment sentiment (saltiness/negativity).
Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem? WITH CODE By compiling data from the backend we can rate commenters saltiest post.
What is the mission statement? To bring justice to the world by rating the salties comments
Features
What features are required for your minimum viable product? App rates and ranks hacker news commenters by negativity of comment sentiment (limited to commenters who have made x number of posts). Allows users to search by username to view comments and sentiment levels of specific users.
Web: User creation/login flow User can view a feed of negative comments from DS API User can save their favorite salty comments to the backend User can delete saved comments
- Top Favorite Posts
- Front Page Display
- Attach your account?
- Get a saltiness score
- 1-5 crackers
- User types in a comment
- Processed through algorithm
- Spits back a score
What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users? Design - Planning
Optional but highly recommended Please refer to this document: Build Weeks: Planning & Design Worksheet (How to build a beautiful application) What design system will you use? Styled-components Sass
- User lands on front page
- User Creates account + logs in
- Redirects to User account
- User can save their favorite comments
- Delete favorite comments
- ReactStrap
- SemanticUI
- Axios
- Lambda Instructors
- Age: 20-30
- Hacker News Users (you know who you are)