Ask HN: Review my website

#1

Post by wushupork » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

Ask HN: Review my website
hottweeters.com

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#2

Post by marcusbooster » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:22 PM UTC

The hot-or-not craze at least had the decency to allow you to opt-in for judgment.

Re: Ask HN: Review my website

#3

Post by wushupork » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:27 PM UTC

marcusbooster wrote: post #2

The hot-or-not craze at least had the decency to allow you to opt-in for judgment.

point taken. this is a super beta app and many of the desired features were not developed. I wanted to release early and get feedback right away.

Would an opt-out be satisfactory?

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#4

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:29 PM UTC

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#5

Post by si2 » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:30 PM UTC

I like the concept just because it is built around twitter. I don't tweet myself, but I feel like it adds something to the twitter experience. There was an article talking about how twitter only has a 25% retention rate in their second month and sites like this might help that number get better.

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#6

Post by markessien » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:31 PM UTC

This has a major flaw. Like a massive flaw. There are way too many twitter accounts for the votes to be more than 1-2 per account - meaning your site would not do what it does.

The site is nicely designed, many people like playing the game, but without reducing the number of twitter accounts, it's going to be tough to work. I suggest you search out 100 accounts, add them, and then let new users type in their own twitter name if they want to be added.

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#7

Post by csomar » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:31 PM UTC

The profiles are choosen randomly, this is hard that I know one of them, won't it better that the user enter a profile name and then rate it.

Or better idea, display popular profiles

Re: Ask HN: Review my website

#8

Post by wushupork » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:31 PM UTC

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I've really struggled with that. On one hand you want people to be able to relate to it - ie - judging people you know or popular people, on the other hand, I wanted it to be so that everyone could have a chance of appearing on this site - not just the extremely attractive people or extremely popular. What do other people think?

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#9

Post by sanj » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:32 PM UTC

wushupork wrote: post #3

marcusbooster wrote: post #2

The hot-or-not craze at least had the decency to allow you to opt-in for judgment.

point taken. this is a super beta app and many of the desired features were not developed. I wanted to release early and get feedback right away. Would an opt-out be satisfactory?

No.

Re: Ask HN: Review my website

#10

Post by marcusbooster » Mon, May 11, 2009, 3:37 PM UTC

wushupork wrote: post #3

marcusbooster wrote: post #2

The hot-or-not craze at least had the decency to allow you to opt-in for judgment.

point taken. this is a super beta app and many of the desired features were not developed. I wanted to release early and get feedback right away. Would an opt-out be satisfactory?

At least the ranking system is all positive -- which is probably for the best. If you were to add the ability to down-vote, you'd have to watch out for some random teenage girl waking up one morning to a -50 because her classmates thought it'd be funny. That could lead to some trouble.

The site works well, I'm sure there's an audience for it.