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CoinGossip

A read on what crypto communities were actually talking about, not just price.

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CoinGossip homepage showing cryptocurrency discussion tracking.
CoinGossip popularity view comparing cryptocurrencies by online attention.
CoinGossip detail view with headlines and sentiment signals.
CoinGossip historical trend view for cryptocurrency attention.

Why it existed

Price charts were everywhere, but it was harder to see what crypto communities were actually talking about.

The friction it answered

Most sentiment tools were either too shallow or too expensive.

What was built

A scraping and aggregation pipeline with trend detection over social chatter, charted against price.

What it left behind

CoinGossip taught me to distrust a single metric and to show the workings, not just the conclusion. It was also where I learned how newer frontend frameworks changed product development: React, Redux, and API-driven interfaces made it easier to build a richer analytics view than the older server-rendered patterns I had used before.

Date

2018

Built around

  • React
  • Django REST Framework
  • Redux
  • Python
  • NLP

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