Taste Engine 📊

Real-time consumer intelligence platform tracking fashion, brands, and culture trends.

What it does

Tracks trending topics across:

• Social Media: TikTok hashtags, Twitter engagement, Reddit sentiment
• Commerce: StockX resale prices, volume tracking
• Institutional: Fashion Week runways, Super Bowl ads, designer moves
• Fashion aesthetics: Mob wife, quiet luxury, gorpcore, opiumcore
• Brands: Chrome Hearts, Rick Owens, Balenciaga, Arc'teryx
• Footwear: Sambas, Salomon, New Balance

Features

✅ Multi-Platform Tracking

• TikTok: Hashtag velocity, sound-to-fashion correlation, creator influence
• Twitter: Real-time engagement metrics, viral moment detection
• Reddit: Sentiment analysis, community validation
• StockX: Resale price movements, volume tracking
• Runway: Fashion Week trends, runway-to-street gap analysis
• Super Bowl: Major ad campaign tracking, brand spend analysis

✅ Smart Analytics

• Cross-platform correlation detection
• Trend velocity scoring (0-100)
• Predictive insights ("This will peak in 7-14 days")
• Runway vs reality gap analysis
• Ad spend vs social reality comparison

✅ Automated Workflows

• GitHub Actions runs every 3 hours
• Auto-scans all data sources
• Generates data-driven posts
• Auto-posts to Twitter
• Commits updated data to repo

✅ Data-Driven Posts Real insights like:

"BMW spending $10.5M to revive quiet luxury in the Super Bowl. Trend score: 8/100. The money already wasted."

"Pattern detected: Fur coats 78% street adoption before Fashion Week validated. Culture leads, fashion follows."

Tech Stack

• Python 3
• bird CLI for Twitter data
• GitHub Actions for automation
• Multi-source data aggregation
• Real-time trend scoring

Quick Start

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/codebyellalesperance/taste-analytics.git
cd taste-analytics

2. Set up credentials (IMPORTANT 🔒)

Never commit secrets to git!

For local development:

# Copy the template
cp .env.example .env

# Edit .env and add your credentials
# Get Twitter cookies from your browser after logging in

For GitHub Actions:

• Go to Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions
• Add TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN and TWITTER_CT0
• See AUTOMATION.md for full setup

3. Run scripts

# Install dependencies
pip install requests

# Run individual collectors
python3 scripts/collect_tiktok.py
python3 scripts/collect_twitter.py
python3 scripts/collect_stockx.py

# Run full analysis
python3 scripts/ultimate_dashboard.py

# Generate posts
python3 scripts/generate_posts.py

Automation

The repo includes GitHub Actions workflows that run automatically:

• Every 3 hours: Full scan + auto-post 3 tweets
• Manual: Post on-demand from Actions tab

See AUTOMATION.md for complete setup guide.

Security

🔒 Never commit API keys, tokens, or credentials to git.

• Credentials go in .env (gitignored) or GitHub Secrets
• See SECURITY.md for best practices
• .env.example shows the template

Sample Output

Trend Scores

📈 TREND SCORES (0-100):
opiumcore       [████████░░░░░░░░░░░░]  40/100
archivefashion  [████████░░░░░░░░░░░░]  40/100
chrome hearts   [█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]   6/100

Cross-Platform Insights

🧠 CROSS-PLATFORM INSIGHTS:
1. Audio trend alert: 'Femininomenon by Chappell Roan' with 234,000 uses 
   directly driving coquette aesthetic. Music is the new fashion marketing.

2. PREDICTION: #archivefashion will peak in 7-14 days. Currently at 34M views 
   with +567% growth. Early movers should exit soon.

3. DEATH WATCH: #quietluxury down -67% on TikTok. The algorithm has moved on. 
   Brands still pushing this are already late.

Generated Posts

1. Trend scores right now: opiumcore (40/100), archivefashion (40/100), 
   gorpcore (9/100). The algorithm has spoken.

2. Extreme Shoulders on 27 runways. Street adoption: 3%. Balenciaga's $4,000 
   jackets about to hit clearance.

3. Platform breakdown for 'opiumcore': TikTok (explosive), StockX (rising), 
   Reddit (positive). Triple confirmation = real trend.

Architecture

Data Sources                Analysis                Output
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━            ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
TikTok                     Trend Scoring           Twitter Posts
Twitter          →         Correlation    →        Data Commits
Reddit                     Predictions             Artifacts
StockX                     Gap Analysis
Runway
Super Bowl

Project Structure

taste-analytics/
├── .github/workflows/     # Automation workflows
├── scripts/               # Data collectors & analyzers
│   ├── collect_tiktok.py
│   ├── collect_twitter.py
│   ├── collect_stockx.py
│   ├── collect_reddit.py
│   ├── collect_runway.py
│   ├── collect_superbowl.py
│   ├── dashboard.py
│   ├── generate_posts.py
│   ├── master_analyzer.py
│   └── ultimate_dashboard.py
├── data/                  # Generated data (gitignored)
├── output/                # Generated posts (gitignored)
├── .env.example           # Credential template
├── AUTOMATION.md          # Automation setup guide
├── SECURITY.md            # Security best practices
└── README.md              # This file

Use Cases

For Content Creators (@tasteengine)

• Auto-post data-driven trend insights
• Stay ahead of mainstream coverage
• Build authority with real metrics

For Brands (B2B SaaS potential)

• See what Fashion Week got wrong
• Know which Super Bowl ads will flop
• Predict trend peaks before they happen
• Never waste money on dead trends

The pitch:

"We would have saved BMW $10.5M. We would have told Balenciaga to skip extreme shoulders. We saw mob wife before Vogue. Pay us $5K/month to never waste money again."

YC Application Potential

One-liner:
"Bloomberg Terminal for consumer culture. We tell brands what's going to be cool before it's cool."

Why now:

• AI can finally process culture at scale
• Brands desperate for TikTok-speed insights
• Death of cookies = need new intelligence

Business model:

• Free: @tasteengine Twitter content
• $5K/month: Real-time dashboard for brands
• 100 brands = $6M ARR

Contributing

This is currently a private project. If you have access:

1. Never commit secrets (use .env or GitHub Secrets)
2. Follow the security guidelines in SECURITY.md
3. Run scripts locally before pushing
4. Test automation workflows before enabling

Cost

GitHub Actions: Free (2,000 min/month, we use ~480)
Data sources: Free (public APIs and scraping)
Total: $0/month ✅

License

Private - All rights reserved

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Questions? Open an issue or check the docs: AUTOMATION.md | SECURITY.md