Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)
Signup page is blanking out for me.<p>Really curious to try it. It&#x27;s a really neat idea. Has this been done before? I&#x27;ve never seen anything like it.<p>The full value of this would likely come from interesting, productive, insightful visualizations of the underlying graph that is being built.<p>Questions that come to my mind:<p>- What if you write bots that scrape Wikipedia, Twitter, etc. and output entries from semantic analysis performed on these sources?<p>- If many people write such bots, how similar would the graphs be? What are the parameters that determine graph overlap?<p>- Can you use this to tie in to the real world?<p><i>&quot;A key can be any unique string such as product barcodes, book ISBNs, email addresses, URLs, domain names, names, phone numbers ...&quot;</i><p>Interesting stuff there... A way to make this into an interesting social network is if people curated their own graphs, e.g. of books and webpages and favorite restaurants, and other people could browse these graphs in a read only mode. (perhaps they can clone it to their graphs or so and then start to edit them)<p>The temporal aspect might be interesting too. Would there be value in seeing how my graph has changed over time? When I was in academia, none of the tools to keep track of the papers I read suited me. I could see this working well for this use case scenario.<p>(if you could write a Prolog against this, would it have interesting properties?)<p>I see that a submitter just posted 7630028603780 -&gt; volume -&gt; 75ml (the first number being probably the bar code of some beverage), that&#x27;s neat.<p>Someone else just posted the following entry:<p><i>5010438013621 -&gt; ingredients -&gt; Water, sugar, mixed fruit juices from concentrate 10% (Grape, blackcurrant, raspberry), acid (Citric acid), Vimto flavouring (Includes natural extracts of fruits, herbs, barley malt and spices), colouring food (Concentrate of carrot, hibiscus), acidity regulator (Sodium citrate), preservatives (Sodium benzoate, Potassium sorbate), Vitamin C, Sweeteners (Sucralose, Acesulfame K).</i><p>Now what the site should be doing is converting this to something like:<p><i>5010438013621 -&gt; ingredients -&gt; water<p>5010438013621 -&gt; ingredients -&gt; sugar<p>5010438013621 -&gt; ingredients -&gt; vitamin C<p>...
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