Creative uses of the Hunch API
Hunch has long offered an API to allow developers and tinkerers to tap into Hunch’s Taste Graph in creative ways. (side note: we eat our own dog food here; Hunch.com itself was re-engineered in 2010 to be powered by the Hunch API)
There have been some creative and useful applications developed recently using the API, so we thought we’d highlight a few:
- “Automatic DJ“, from Hunch’s own Ben Gleitzman
- It builds custom music playlists for you based on facial recognition.
- Check out some press on Gizmodo
- “Forage” music recommendations, from Hunch’s Chris Dixon
- A mashup between Twitter, YouTube, and Hunch’s Taste Graph, it builds a music playlist for you based on your Twitter name
- Check out some press on GigaOm
- “Forage” ipad apps recommendations, another Dixon production
- Enter a Twitter name and get customized iPad app recommendations
- Check out some more press on GigaOm
- youzakk, by Nick Ursa and Olof Mathé
- Automatically generates playlists for venues based on Hunch-powered preferences of people currently checked-in on Foursquare
- Check out some press on Evolver
- Hunch + Tinysong (Grooveshark), by Evan Lawrence-Hurt
- Get music recommendations based on any Twitter username
- Brdg.me, built on the NYC->SXSW startup bus
- Enter your Twitter name and it recommendations conversation starters with interesting people near you
- More about brdge.me on YouTube
Finally, Moses Nakamura wrote a handy python wrapper for the Hunch API.
Thanks for all the creative applications of the Hunch API. If you’d like to give it a go yourself, take a look at our API documentation. We’re also happy to answer any questions in the Hunch API forum.
