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Show HN: trsry.com, a shortening synonym finder

7 pointsby szopaover 14 years ago

3 comments

szopaover 14 years ago
I had a free weekend, and the thsrs idea by Ironic Sans [1] looked like something too cool to let it go (and <a href="http://thsrs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thsrs.com/</a> didn't work too well for me). Also, it was a chance to implement my very own instant search ;-)<p>The thing is done in Django+PostgreSQL+jQueryUI and uses the Wordnet 2.0 thesaurus which comes with OpenOffice. My wife was kind enough to make it look not ugly.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/07/idea_thsrs_the_shorter_thesaurus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/07/idea_thsrs_the_shorter_the...</a>
kolinkoover 14 years ago
interesting concept :)
mickekover 14 years ago
It would be so much cooler if you would have done it on GAE ;p