[zeratul]

Good exercise.

Note to self: they got the data; they didn't add much value; they presented the data with fairly clean design; it could be argued that this is a data mining web app but there is a flaw if the plan is to produce income by engaging the user.

Note to feldmanr: http://www.programmableweb.com/ says that there is 4535 APIs. It's not even possible to read the documentation for a subset of them to figure out whether you can get an incremental user ID or not. But even if you did and even if you used some of them you are just producing a fun fact. Hardly a reason to come back for more. Yet, the exercise is a worth while; one gains knowledge about heterogeneous nature of web APIs - a skill necessary to build profitable data mining web apps. Please, do come back with an idea that can clearly retain your users beyond single visit.

[feldmanr]

Thanks! Our intention wasn't to build a sticky web service, but a simple hack that took a few days. We thought it was interesting data to see about ourselves and thought we'd share it with the community. Might it turn into something more? Perhaps, but this is just a simple proof of concept. We know (and like) Programmable Web, but as you said, no simple way to filter about user ID info.

We enjoy simple hacks that people produce that give me a few minutes of fun or some interesting piece of info. We try not to take ourselves too seriously all the time.