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Ask HN: Is my Idea profitable? Hint: semantic web crawler for lyrics

3 pointsby alanchavezalmost 12 years ago
Hey HN!<p>I was recently exposed to CasperJS and PhantomJS and I&#x27;m fascinated with these tools.<p>Last night I didn&#x27;t sleep because I built a web crawler that crawls lyrics websites, and matches the lyrics to user generated content in songmeanings.com and lyricinterpretation.com.<p>Why? Because let&#x27;s say I want to look for songs about socialization of government, my program is able to say:<p>&quot;AWOLNATION - Jump on my shoulders&quot;<p>My question is... is this a profitable idea?

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declandewetalmost 12 years ago
Profitable? Yes. You could profit very well from it. But finding out how, exactly, is the bigger challenge.
smartwateralmost 12 years ago
You&#x27;ll get sued: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;usatoday30.usatoday.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;products&#x2F;cnet&#x2F;2007-08-17-lyrics-sites-copyright_N.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;usatoday30.usatoday.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;products&#x2F;cnet&#x2F;2007-08-17...</a>
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timmmalmost 12 years ago
Short answer, no. I would think it falls into that categoery of &quot;cool ideas&quot;