We've worked in corporate for a while, and we do a lot of hackathons on the side. In both situations we saw a problem that really needed solving. In a lot of cases when the design process for a software product begins, we look at the architecture and say "How are we going to build this?". And there are a lot more questions that come up. Usually we figure what languages and frameworks we'd be using by a mixture of googling/and stack overflow. We want to fix that, with Teratactile we're building a search engine for software: Languages/Frameworks/Products you name it. We want to make it so that you can put all sorts of software in direct juxtaposition with each other and see which is right for your product. Hopefully we can reduce not only the time and software engineers/students spend but reduce the amount of time businesses have to spend in the research stage as well. We've done our research before coming in and we've got key markets: Software Engineers, Students, and Businesses. Right now we've scraped our data using wikipedias API and build a web app using angular JS to allow users to browse software/frameworks by type and tags. We also have a natural language parser running on the search (written in PHP) to make sure that we get the correct results from a search string input by the user. In writing this we noticed that there is no API that describes software: uses, features, languages, etc... we hope that we can keep writing crawlers to eventually aggregate all of that information into the first API of that nature.
If theres anything else you guys want to know, stop by and see us and we can explain it! Feel free to try it out at the URL we attached, some example strings are "I want to build a website. " or "I want to make a game", "web", "web app".
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