YeBay

Itemes of importe of which ye may purchase to thine heart's content

When: Jun 2012
Stack: Ruby, Padrino, Heroku

Archived screenshot of YeBay — Archived screenshot. The site itself is gone; this is the evidence.

This must win the prize for the fastest hack ever or something. In the last half hour of the event we realised that nobody had done anything with the RSC Banquo API, which monitored Twitter, Flickr and eBay for Shakespearian mentions, so we quickly came up with “YeBay” - imagining an eBay of yesteryear.

Source code for YeBay is on Github under an MIT licence.

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