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Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: a dating website for dogs

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Re: Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: a dating website for dogs

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Post by btilly »

Snoddas wrote: post #20
akd wrote: post #9

You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something like that. Everyone knows it's not for doggie breeding, most pets are spayed or neutered.

"most pets are spayed or neutered" {{citation needed}}

http://ezinearticles.com/?Spay-and-Neuter-Statistics&id=... claims 75% of pet dogs and 87% of pet cats are neutered.

Of course when a single female cat can make over a dozen kittens per year, this is still not high enough to avoid the obvious problems.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: a dating website for dogs

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Post by rev_null »

Confusion wrote: post #7

I think you should realize that it may turn out you will actually primarily cater to dog owners looking for dates with other dog owners.

Or people pretending to be dogs to score dates.

On the internet, nobody knows you're not a dog.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: a dating website for dogs

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Post by liquimoon »

edanm wrote: post #12

A few comments about the basic design of the front page. I'm not a designer or anything, so take with a grain of salt. The design is nice, but has a little bit of a "thrown together" look: the different things on the page don't really seem like they belong together. I'd recommend a few things: 1. Align the logo of the site to the left (aligned with the text below). 2. Since I assume your subscription form at the bott…

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I am no designer myself. I've redesigned the home page according to your suggestions.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: a dating website for dogs

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Post by Snoddas »

btilly wrote: post #21
Snoddas wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"most pets are spayed or neutered" {{citation needed}}

http://ezinearticles.com/?Spay-and-Neuter-Statistics&id=... claims 75% of pet dogs and 87% of pet cats are neutered. Of course when a single female cat can make over a dozen kittens per year, this is still not high enough to avoid the obvious problems.

Wow, what a difference from here in Sweden. While cats are are about 70% fixed for dogs the number is MUCH smaller, 7% for females and 4% for males.

But we don't have a wild-dog problem here, leave a dog out unattended over the winter and it's pretty much guaranteed that it will be dead come spring. Cat's seem to do much better somehow.

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