Freebie finding site using interesting algorithm

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Freebie finding site using interesting algorithm is a company in show hn launch.

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A little while ago I built an automated website that finds free stuff while filtering out scams. It works in an interesting way. Most freebie sites on the web contain a mix of real, useful free stuff and scammy affiliate and pyramid schemes. I realized that affiliate links are always unique (because they need to contain an affiliate code) while real freebies have URLs that co-occur across multiple sites at roughly the same time. I wrote a crawler in Perl and MySQL that looks for repeating, off-domain URLs that temporally cluster on multiple free stuff sites. I was surprised and pleased to find that this trick eliminates affiliate links with almost 100% success and tends to find real freebies

The company sits in the show hn launch segment, where it competes on its core product or service.

Directory data places it at the Show HN launch stage.

Website: absurdlycool.comDo