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Amir Sharif  • Peerlist

A new way to meet people outside of your friend circle by correlating your interests with those in relevant groups.

Crafted at the Facebook Hackathon 2013

Icebreaker

· Created a Twitter bot that processed a number of commands sent via direct messages, to circumvent my limited cellular data plan by using my home computer to fetch data, process, and send only the result to my phone.

More about this project: https://gist.github.com/4004545

Chatterbot

OrangePeel was a local directory of student entrepreneurs looking to connect.

I built the product in less than 24 hours that allowed people to search for skills, work experience, or any kind of work-related piece of information and present them to a user - these results were ranked based on distance from the user.

- 2nd place in the Nspire 24 hour startup competition.

OrangePeel

RapPad is a creative suite for song writers/rappers to write lyrics in the cloud, loaded with powerful features such as "next-line" rhyme generation, syllable analysis, and a community to help master your craft.

Created in less than 36 hours, RapPad won "Best Showcase of Talent" and "Best Use of OpenShift Platform" at MHacks 2013, the largest student hackathon in the world.

RapPad

· Created a web crawler in C# to mine data from various movie database websites, organize the data in a Excel (.CSV) file for use in modelling, projection, and prediction of success factors for future/unreleased films.

Web Crawler/Data Miner

· Browser extension that added a suite of features to popular music streaming website 8Tracks.com such as downloading, repeat, skip to time, time elapsed, etc.
· Over 40000 downloads