As some of you know I’ve been involved with a game called Counter-Strike and more specifically a plugin for that game called the Eventscripts Plugin. Basically the plugin allows people to change how the game acts depending on “events” and stuff happening.
My point is not about the plugin but about the guy who wrote it. His name is Mattie and he is a good friend of mine. I have become his friend and vice versa because of my participation in his Eventscript forum but in the past few years he has been doing some really cool and fun stuff on the web.
Enter Miracle Labs. That is what he calls his “company”. It consist of Mattie, a couple of his friends(Glenn and Ted), and his wife Helen. So far they have created several interesting and useful web sites.
The first one I knew about is called Bug.gd. That is a site that you can search to see if anyone else has seen a particular error or problem you’ve run into. The interesting part is it will optionally send you an email a few days after your visit if it didn’t help to see if you solved the problem.
Another is called ri.ms. It is a site similar to tinyurl.com that will shrink a url. It’s very useful for people who use Twitter because you only get 140 letter per post.
Their latest foray is called YumBunny. This is a dating/meeting site with a twist. It shows 2 people and asks if they look good together. You click Yes, maybe, or No. I’m still a little unclear on how it tells people they might match up but hopefully it takes off.
These are all intersting “Experiments” by Miracle Labs. I hope they do well. Below is the YumBunny thing.