startup-generator

Using Markov chains to generate fake startup ideas: the monkeys on typewriters approach to founding a company.

Some of our favorite examples:

• Anaphore develops protein therapeutics to treat diseases affecting dogs and breeding.
• Focus Photography Inc specializes in state-of-the-art functional brain imaging that utilizes AJAX technologies in the development of Android apps.
• The Australian soft toy for children and their patients.
• Firalis is a fashion-based crowdfunding platform for gamers.
• A123 Systems is an open community of genealogists collaborating to help users manage their bank accounts from one Web-based inbox.
• Jewelry for the iPhone.
• Good Health Media is an online platform that offers sports fans the opportunity to go on a fascinating wine adventure.

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Quick start

pip install unidecode
python main.py

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Setup

pip install nltk
pip install unidecode
pip install pattern

NB: if you want to do part-of-speech tagging yourself, you must have installed nltk's pos data:

python -m nltk.downloader maxent_treebank_pos_tagger
python -m nltk.downloader averaged_perceptron_tagger

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Run

python main.py

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Contributors

Colton Gyulay

Antuan Tran

Evan Gastman