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App soft launch!

Hi everyone. I'm a Glitch who likes to aggregate statistics and data. To that end I've been nerding out for nearly two weeks developing a central market index for the world of Glitch. We'll call this the Alpha phase of the site, I guess. It's slow to load, because I've got to find better methods of crawling the data I've aggregated (all within development rules/guidelines), and the data might be in a half-meaningful form. Maybe it means a lot to you - let me know! Maybe it means nothing...well, let me know! I'm developing my theory, which is yet to be posted, but I hope to make this thing work for the community. And I've got plans, oh, do I have plans.

Anyway, in the spirit of passing 100,000 points of data:

GLITCHONOMICS!

Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Very cool Pokkit!
    Posted 13 months ago by Hoodjack Saken Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hoodjack - you're a celebrity over there! :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lol, I have been known to stumble down to the ol' auction house from time to time....
    Posted 13 months ago by Hoodjack Saken Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any stats on top buyers?
    Posted 13 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No top buyers...yet! Great idea for the future, though!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Isn't loading for me.
    Posted 13 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, my server is having a coronary for some reason.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ha, so you're launching it for real now
    Too bad you removed the Now With... FATAL ERROR, that was fun stuff :]
    How about some geographic data, like the top levels of traffic for streets/areas?
    Posted 13 months ago by Lemo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sounds like you and I have been working on the same app xD I've had a cronjob collecting market data for a few days now, hopefully I didn't launch too late!
    Posted 13 months ago by Reihox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We could always join forces as a financial Voltron.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for your hard work!  This is great, Pokkit!
    Posted 13 months ago by Sloppy Ketchup Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks, Ketchup!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am in desperate need of a good MySQL tuner, though. If anyone's a setup whiz, I'd really appreciate your expertise!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To avoid bumping this thread to the top every time I want to post an update - visit my Twitter! https://twitter.com/#!/glitchonomics

    Just posted a rough estimate of Glitch values to real-world currency spot rates! www.glitchonomics.com/occ.php.

    That means that the 'Office of Currency' is now open!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Many people here aren't on "the Twitter" and don't mind thread-bumping.

    :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You should also consider doing a blog or post here to introduce the calculations and assumptions.

    E.g. I noticed you compare to RL price on grain but how much grain is one unit in Glitch? (I guess it is the amount of grain needed to produce flour to bake one bun...)
    Posted 13 months ago by Vic Fontaine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Togger: I eventually plan to, but it seems that there's interest now! So, looks like I've got a small project for today :)

    @Victora: Good to see, looks like I'll post here, too, then. I just don't want to turn into a forum polluter ;)
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not ready for prime time:

    Error msg. received:

    No data receivedUnable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
    Posted 13 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @MeherMan Interesting. Let me look into my server.

    Might want to try it again; looks like I might've had a server outage momentarily when I was monkeying around this morning. Thanks for all of the status reports - keep 'em coming!

    And I'm migrating servers soon to gain some more resources...this one is largely underpowered.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Togger: I've put up a writeup in my blog section, the 'Glitch Street Journal' : http://t.co/lizfX7jm
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Been doing quite a bit of work, inspired by your interest. When you get a chance stop by the new Glitchonomics API section:

    api.glitchonomics.com

    But the OCC also has changes such as a graph, the main page now has price-based indexes (with basic accompanying statistics). There's more that I did / am doing, but that's all I remember right now!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If anyone's still watching this thread, stats are getting more meaningful - we just flipped the switch to poll the market hourly instead of every three hours.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great job, Pokkit! Clean, concise. You really did put a lot of thought into this app.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zareya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Zareya: And it's not over yet! ;)
    Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the API!
    Posted 12 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great job Pokkit, really like the site. Been doing some market analysis myself but in the "makes sense to me" sort of way: your charts make my head spin (in a good way ;)) 

    Have to say though.... "Office of Currency" should not be abbreviated "occ", eh? ;) haha
    Posted 12 months ago by Chuck Stone Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nice work! I've been working on a similar project:  http://glitchmarket.com

    The Glitch API is a lot of fun to play with.
    Posted 12 months ago by Malero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Chuck Stone: That's kinda the joke - there's a US office that's called the 'OCC' so I was trying to mimic that.

    @Malero: Nice work, yourself! I've abandoned some of the per-user statistics, I'm working more with doing analysis and breakdown as to mimic a Bureau of Labor and Statistics. 

    I posted on my Twitter that we're going to do an end-of-year summit on Skype where we talk about some things happening in the Glitchen economy, so stay tuned!

    (We've also been having some trouble with our host, so we're working on ironing out speed issues with them and expanding)
    Posted 12 months ago by Pokkit Subscriber! | Permalink