How do you know when cleanhotdrys been to your place?

Author: John Posted: March 21, 2008

Besides the instant slam of 4 maks and 4 espressos, you could just check our blog. Some of our more hardcore fans may have noticed a little something extra special the last few days at chd and that is the “last seen drinking at” widget on the right. This is a cool little feature us clean hot dryers have popped in for sheer novelty. Here’s how it works:

This panel gets automagically updated on the fly, via a single text message. When a cleanhotdryer walks into a cafe, they send a special message to a top secret twitter account containing keywords about the place they’re at. Our little script picks up this text message, recognizes the location, displays a photo and address from that specific store, and appends a comment about our experience below. Yea, we’re a little tech savvy here.

We’ve got about 20 locations in our database with accompanying images and addresses. So if we’ve been to your place, now you’ll know ;)

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4 Responses to “How do you know when cleanhotdrys been to your place?”

  1. 03/22/08 at 10:49 pm Nick says:

    Next, we’ve got GPS automatically telling you when you’re close to a coffee bar. Who’s up for this caffeinated project?

  2. 03/26/08 at 5:39 am KC says:

    Ummm I’m not seeing the widget, all I see are categories and recent comments. Am I missing something here?

  3. 03/26/08 at 6:08 am KC says:

    Ahh there it is, must of been down for some minor upkeep.

  4. 03/27/08 at 11:54 pm John says:

    @KC

    Right now Twitter only accepts 75 api requests an hour, so if we get pinged more than that, it gracefully degrades ;)

    We’re working on a script to cache the results, will be good to go in no time.

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