Show HN: LaughMatch • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#31

Post by JonLim » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 12:38 AM UTC

I really like the idea (as many others here seem to!) but there's an inherent problem with going beyond the US: some of the funny content is not available to the rest of us.

I was voting on some dog against a door stop, which was nice, but the following video was a clip from Portlandia, which I was not allowed to watch (in Canada.)

There were only the choices to not enjoy, or enjoy the video. There was no "skip this please" option.

Otherwise, keep working on this, it definitely has potential!

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#32

Post by pal_graham » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 12:47 AM UTC

absolutely great idea. I didn't login but coming from other dating sites, I think this is a fun possibly more rewarding alternative.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#33

Post by jbkring » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:32 AM UTC

love the stark contrasting colors in your design. wonder how the login/vote buttons would look if they were flat like the rest of the design. too bad i already have an awesome gf (with a very similar sense of humor), i would definitely use this.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#34

Post by darien » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:32 AM UTC

I think it's an alluring idea for match making. But what's to stop OKCupid from releasing this same feature for their audience in less than 3 days. I assure you that their engineers also read Hacker News. That aside, really innovative use of youtube, better than Feross Aboukhadijeh's creation of Youtube Instant.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#35

Post by mehulkar » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:34 AM UTC

I don't like the slider. I'd prefer a boolean :) or :(. Other than that, this is great.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#36

Post by esolyt » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:51 AM UTC

Have you also considered doing a browser extension that will display an interface for voting when you're on Youtube?

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#37

Post by natch » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 3:18 AM UTC

Cool idea.

One nitpick is: you're asking me to vote on whether a set of 30 or so jokes in a three and a half minute clip were funny. It's hard to do that, because some were funny, and some were not. Maybe with time addressing of the clips (possible with Youtube URLs I believe) you could offer up shorter segments and the idea would be more convincing, and probably work better as well.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#38

Post by charleshaanel » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 3:32 AM UTC

Interesting take on behavioral target marketing. Good start. Have you considered adding a stronger call to action for the sign up process (upper right).

Also I noticed a blue button. Have you considered split testing red and yellow buttons? Those colors consistently work. Check out the color of Paypal or Amazon's CTA buttons - you'll see what I mean.

Good luck.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#39

Post by bmelton » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #30

stuffihavemade wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's wrong philosphy to have. If I've built something (especially a 3 day project when I haven't invested too much time yet), I want all the criticism I can get. Comments like "that seems cool" are just noise. On the ohter hand, someone pointing out a legitimate showstopper can save you 6 months of time working on a dead end idea that could be spent working on something else.

Who's saying anything about what we're supposed to be saying? All I'm saying is "stop saying you built this in 3 days".

If I've gleaned your logic correctly, saying "I built this in three days" attracts the most critique. As such, if you're looking for critique (insensitive or otherwise), that seems like exactly the sort of preface to attach to the title of your submission.

I agree that nobody should be impressed... with all the Rails Rumbles, Django-dashes and StartupWeekend projects I've seen in the past, it takes quite a bit to wow me with a 76 hour project, but I don't know know why that should bother the creator either way.

Edit: Sorry, my eyes are glazed over, and I just realized that's basically exactly what the GP said. Apologies for being repetitive.

Re: Show HN: LaughMatch

#40

Post by anigbrowl » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 4:01 AM UTC

stuffihavemade wrote: post #3

I would be shocked if you've used a dating site before. Not to critize your product (the site looks pretty nice), but it's solving a problem that doesn't exist.

I strongly disagree. 'sense of humor' consistently ranks near the top of 'what people desire in a mate' surveys of both men and women. I'm not going to go off digging up citations for this on a Saturday evening, but I think it's a very important aspect of human relations. Different people find different sorts of things funny, and those preferences are deeply held.