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type0 on July 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insight...

> We still haven't fully figured out what the optimal solution might be like.

Recommender system based on the kind of keywords in the description, starred project from main contributors etc

liorgrossman on July 15, 2020 [–]

I think it would be a good start, but would still require some human vetting. We played with some simple NLP solutions (trying to run TF-IDF on the keywords/description/readme of packages to determine the category), the results weren't great honestly, so we opted of curating everything manually for now.

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