This post is mostly a status of what I have been up to here at the nearly-almost-half-year mark of 2016. Introducing Product Search By the end of 2015, we had already been using Elasticsearch for a while. It was the first part of a long-term strategy of moving data away from Google App Engine. Event… Continue reading Golang and the search of the past
Category: Projects
What happened next
In July last year (2014), I started working full-time on Antecons. Back then, I wrote a post about complete independence where I predicted that I could support myself for up to half a year without income. This turned out to be true, but now that we have entered a new year, it is time for… Continue reading What happened next
Photo Amaze
About a month ago, I attended the wedding of a childhood friend. Since I have had some extra free time lately, I came up with an idea of combining my interest in 3D with an app that could be used for the wedding. The result was Photo Maze, a 3D maze where the guests at… Continue reading Photo Amaze
Product similarities and relations
This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. I recently started to implement a feature that analyzes similarities and relations between products and factors this analysis into the recommendations that are created.… Continue reading Product similarities and relations
More data, better recommendations
This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. Today, we have published an improvement for the Antecons recommendation algorithm. In the beginning, recommendations were based on an analysis of order data for… Continue reading More data, better recommendations