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Introducing PotterPredictions.com

My new site is

http://potterpredictions.com/

Here's how I describe it on the home page:

This site will let you record your predictions of what will happen (or otherwise be revealed) in the final Harry Potter book.

Then on July 21st, when the book is released, the site will no longer accept predictions. A short time after, results will start to be published here and you'll be able to see how you went.

To compare yourself to your friends, you can form groups and, when the results are revealed, you can see how you went relative to your friends. You will also be able to see how your groups (you can be in more than one) compared to other groups.

We hope that this site will provide a little fun while you wait in anticipation of the final book's release.

Thanks to the amazing development efficiency of Python, Django and WebFaction.com, I was able to get this site launched within 72 hours of conceiving of it. There are still features I want to add, but it's (hopefully) a lot of fun already.

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Comments (3)

Doug Napoleone on July 10, 2007:

I saw a report (on the local news no less) that there are spoilers and scans of the end of the book out online. Just an FYI.


Besides that, COOL!!!! I am sooo adding my predictions now!

Asbjørn Ulsberg on July 12, 2007:

Cool site and idea, but you could make the signup process a tad bit simpler (or much simpler, depending on who you ask) with OpenID support. Have you considered implementing it? See here for an OpenID Python library: http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/python

James Tauber on July 12, 2007:

Asbjørn, I'm implementing OpenID on all my other sites, and may eventually get to it here. Given all the other features I still want to implement in the next few days, though, it's a fairly low priority.

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Created: July 10, 2007
Last Modified: July 10, 2007
Author: jtauber