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Two ideas:

1) clustering similar ideas, for example when I looked at it there were multiple about finding friends. Related, you could build an reddit-style ranking instead of a purely temporal one

2) if you want to turn it into a product, maybe a way to share “hey, this is exactly my app”... saw some similar comments here. Probably you’ll have to work on anti-spam too :)

Good luck, great project so far!

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Thanks for your ideas. 1) would be a really cool feature, but also technically quite challenging.

2) Could potentially also be helpful as email alerts, so that an app maker gets notified when someone wishes for his app so that he can reach out on Twitter. Commenting on Wishminer itself will probably not be seen by the 'wisher'.

1) could probably be achieved reasonably by filtering out keywords from the sources and simplify them ("app find friend" or "app sell item") and generate tags based on that.

1) you could also try to use word embeddings for distance. Afaik they work better than bag of words when few words are present in one observation.

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