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Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

Thanks for looking guys. This site has been a side-project/hobby of mine for a while now. The past few days for me have been spent rewriting it from the ground up to be a much better site. I know that there are other beer sites out there, but I think that there is something special about making a service like this freely available and open source, and I'm really proud of what I've created.

You can check out the code here: https://github.com/davidcelis/goodbre.ws/

The code that powers the recommendations themselves is here: https://github.com/davidcelis/recommendable/

Any feedback would be nice. This new design is in its infancy but, as far as I can tell, it's been very stable. If you find a bug, please, please let me know here or post on the issues tracker.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by joshschreuder »

I like the design, it's quite clean. Your blogs make for interesting reading too.

The concept reminds me of Untappd (http://untappd.com/) though theirs is a mobile app.

I was also impressed that this didn't just limit down to American beers, but it had some of my native Aussie beers also. Nice work!

Ideas:

- Maybe load the beer names via AJAX for the search box so that I can get suggestions of what I'm typing for.

- Have a mouseover tooltip on the thumbs up/down, bookmark etc. buttons so that I know what they do. It's not immediately obvious what the eye button does.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by jbarciauskas »

My comment is that UX wise, I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing on the site. It took me a few minutes to realize there was a search bar in the upper right that really is the focus for finding the beer you like and seeding the database to get recommendations. I'd add some sort of initial training session, and generally feature the search bar as a sort of "improve your recommendations, rate some beers!" feature.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

jbarciauskas wrote: post #5

My comment is that UX wise, I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing on the site. It took me a few minutes to realize there was a search bar in the upper right that really is the focus for finding the beer you like and seeding the database to get recommendations. I'd add some sort of initial training session, and generally feature the search bar as a sort of "improve your recommendations, rate some beers!" f…

Thanks, this is exactly the kind of thing I need to hear. As the person who made the site, I already know how to use it. I'll look into ways to make this all more obvious.

Re: Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

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Post by davidcelis »

LVB wrote: post #6

Good site. Some comments: - After a search or going to my profile, getting back to my dashboard should be more obvious. - "Fridge" is an odd term and icon for the want-to-try mark. - Can I submit beers? Looking forward to updates.

Yeah, I'll be adding an additional and more obvious link back to the dashboard soon. As far as submitting beers, that's also coming soon. I need to also make it more easily to accept said beers into the database, as I'm the only person working on the site. Managing this database (which has some 60,000 beers currently) is really tough to do alone. Thank you for looking!
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