Is It Greg?
Details
- External ID
- 49690943
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Is It Greg?
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 65
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8771929824561403
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
My friend Greg often posts incredible things he just made, just for fun.Often, I don't realize that it's something HE made and then I see the URL, AND IT'S MY FRIEND, GREG!A few things he made that I think are amazing:- ikea complexity index: https://ikea.greg.technology/- Boing: https://boing.greg.technology/I want to make sure I don't miss anything from him, so I created this Chrome extension that flags things posted by Greg, or linking to his website or a subdomain.I hope other people will install the extension and never miss anything Greg made.
Enrichment
- Theme
- consumer mobile utilities and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- identity verification meme or test for greg
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward personal showcase and portfolio directory linking to projects built by a friend.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Guycombinator, gcombinator
Concerns raised: Worried about false negatives in author detection, Promotes e-celebrity culture and bias over content quality
Feature requests: Highlight comments from customizable author lists, Highlight commenters replying within their own subthreads, Author-anonymous viewing mode
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