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Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

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Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

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Post by kornifex »

chaz wrote: post #26

Your point of differentiation seems to be rating the scene of various venues. I would focus the landing page, app, and pitch on this, because at first pass, it looks like yet another startup that is trying to rate restaurants, stores, and parks. Having a screenshot with "New York City" and "Times Square" is not helpful (btw, note that it's Times Square and not Time Square). I would focus the locations down to just ba…

I think that you are absolutely right, even though we want to focus first on the 5-star rating of people and then we plan to offer a way to choose up to three pre-defined tags (as you rightly said hip, dive, etc.) to elaborate your rating of the place.

Sorry for the "Time Square" error, we use Foursquare venues and weren't paying attention, we will fix that.

We will also rethink our landing page in order to make it easier to understand what we do.

Thanks for the feedback ! :)

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

#32

Post by kornifex »

dominic_cocch wrote: post #30

I enjoy the site and the app looks nicely designed, but the boys vs. girls thing isn't interesting to me. Is this an app to find places to hook up with people? I don't generally judge cities, venues etc by the attractiveness of the people and an app for doing that should probably be aimed at a fairly specific demographic -- probably a similar demographic to OkCupid's.

We believe that when a place is crowded with what you think are cool people, it may very well be a cool place as well.

We do not target single people specifically but groups of friends. We think that friends who use the app together can have a lot of fun. The range of age is from 13 up to 35, even though the idea comes from a 45 year-old man. :)

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

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Post by kornifex »

mv wrote: post #25
mv wrote: post #24

Yosee Support link on the itunes page points at the broken link support.yosee.com Cool intro although it took a while to load for me.

also getting an error trying to register. 'the file /tmp/ ' does not exist

Should be fixed, thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

#34

Post by chaostheory »

Your site is nice and it feels well designed. My only complaint is that even on my 100 mbps connection, it took forever to load the content in the smart phone portion of the site.

Another question I have is what makes me want to use this as opposed to yelp or foursquare?

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

#35

Post by jack-r-abbit »

I think the app looks pretty nice. But clearly I am so far out of your target audience. I find it a rather sad commentary that how a place rates on the boys/girls is "a good reason to go" there. It just seems very shallow. I guess the types of places that are defined by the boy/girl rating rather than the food or the service or what ever else they offer are perfect for the people who are more interested in the boy/girl rating. That is not me. I'm sure you will find your user base though.

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

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Post by danso »

kornifex wrote: post #21
evanb wrote: post #15

It seems very heternormative. Girls rate boys, and boys rate girls?

Yes, we are planning to add gay/lesbians support, but we have a problem because the comments you post are limited to your gender (girls can see other girls comments, boys can see other boys comments). But we are definitely thinking about it!

Uh, this should not be an "oh that's for a future version"...in an urban city (which is presumably where this kind of app would be most used and most useful), you are alienating a good part of the audience.

Gender fairness issues aside, this kind of "design" issue raises doubts about how well you've thought this product through. Social/place-rating apps are hard, given the dominance of the big players in this space. This gender thing complicates things but is by far one of the easier things you'll have to deal with, and it doesn't appear you're dealing with it well.

That sounds harsh, but better to take a hard look at this now than at launch date.

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

#38

Post by kornifex »

chaostheory wrote: post #34

Your site is nice and it feels well designed. My only complaint is that even on my 100 mbps connection, it took forever to load the content in the smart phone portion of the site. Another question I have is what makes me want to use this as opposed to yelp or foursquare?

We believe that when you choose a bar, or a club, you may want to focus on the people first, and Yosee lets you rate these people and say if they are cool or not. Cool places for cool people. :)

Re: Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

#39

Post by kornifex »

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #35

I think the app looks pretty nice. But clearly I am so far out of your target audience. I find it a rather sad commentary that how a place rates on the boys/girls is "a good reason to go" there. It just seems very shallow. I guess the types of places that are defined by the boy/girl rating rather than the food or the service or what ever else they offer are perfect for the people who are more interested in the boy/gi…

I agree with you but we are still planning on adding more traditional information. :)
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