maxniederhofer

Email lists are some of the most thoughtful discussion I have been a part of in the tech industry. Whether they are about music (pho) or AI (Goertzel), they have a depth that tech journalism lacks.

What email lists do you subscribe to? What do you get out of them?

http://qwerly.com/

I'm resubmitting this because I'd really, really like some comments from the HN community. This is not "promotional": I'm wondering where to take it next, I'm wondering whether people think there is a business model here, I'm wondering whether I can get people to collaborate on it with me.

API currently disabled but ping me for access.

I'd love to know what you guys think: http://qwerly.com. Sample result page: http://qwerly.com/twitter/parislemon

Positioning is as a people search for the social web. Queries can currently be done for a Twitter username. That results in a page with other social networking links for that person. Long term vision is to build an open "DNS for people".

I'm wondering where we should take it next. Open to all suggestions and ideas.

P.S. API documentation is here: http://qwerly.com/about_us/api

A friend of mine asked me an interesting question last week: what's the best business I had ever seen? The point was to make a list of answers about the "best businesses" and then gauge whether one could discover a common theme of how to find and address market opportunities.

By "best business", I don't just mean highly profitable, but also the elegance of addressing the market need, the scalability of the solution, the ease/capital-efficiency of launching and running it, the potential positive external effects it has.

We came up with a list that was as wide as Google, Kiva and Cash4Gold. What's your preferred "best business" and why?