Hi Guys,
I am Gaurav based out of Delhi. Jumped the job cubicle in end 2010, & Co-founded with friends a startup in renewable energy, & another in UAVs in 2011. The UAVs one got acquired (luckily, but for peanuts though), & renewables one was mostly linked with govt. so we decided to avoid all the red-tape & govt BS, & switched to e-commerce early 2013, specific to renewable. But so much interaction with govt. & marketing end, I decided to rethink & realised I am better fitted at a technical end. Decided to take a break & did a few courses related to programming (I had worked in a robotics company in ggn for 3 years 2007-2010, converting DRDO tanks into unmanned vehicles), & switched back to tech, with a US based startup as an early employee earlier this year. They were in very early stage & building something really cool so I jumped in. Sumit ( sumit_taank ) & Vishal ( vmishRRa ) are voracious readers & started building this to solve their own problem of discovering quality blogs/opinions/articles on deep topical interests. The 1st blog explains the motivation behind starting this.
The team has now grown to 9 FTE, 4 engineers via vendors, 3 interns & after 10 months of endless hours, we launched a beta version last week. we humbly request you all to login at www.rightrelevance.com & try searching for relevant content & influencers. I will give a quick overview of the product below:
We are using data mining over the 600M twitter handles to extract 2M top influencers (nothing fancy, just a term we coined :-p ), & clustering the 2M experts aka influencers into 35000 Topical categories (basically 35000 highly probable topics. We are still improving this as we are getting more & more data). The content by the experts is extracted as soon as its tweeted & classified in related topic, made available at a single place at www.rightrelevance.com for discovering, sharing & engagement.
We feel its going to be an amazing way for the user to discover pertinent and new articles/blogs/opinions/videos etc on deep topics you like to read about! Some of my personal favourites are Mindfulness, adventure travel, Indian music, Apache storm, apache hadoop, behavioral economics, robotics, documentary films, IPL, BJP.
You can search for top experts, articles & conversations in those topics. screenshots attached below.
Both rodinhoods & alok are experts in our index.
We would love to hear from you guys any feedback to social@rightrelevance.com or here which we can incorporate before moving out of beta version.
Thanks,
gaurav & the entire @rightrelevance team.
Twitter: @gtaank
PS: Special thanks to Admins for helping improve this post 🙂