Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kjf » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

Ask HN: Please review my new website
onesentencereview.com

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by mbuchanan » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:16 PM UTC

Great looking site.. And that's a really good idea to contain it to a single sentence.

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Post by w3matter » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

Great looking.

One tip... Leave the review form visible. After someone reviews the movie, save the review in a session, and redirect them to the signup (or login) page. After signup or login, save the review and redirect them back to the movie page... or even better... Redirect them back to a "thanks for reviewing page", where you can show them a list of movies that they could review.

This will exponentially increase the number of reviews that you will get, instead of forcing people to signup/login first.

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Post by swombat » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:31 PM UTC

Very slick. I only ever read one sentence (from Rotten Tomatoes) anyway, so this fits my usage pattern for reviews.

Are you planning to harvest tweets and other social media to help beef up your review base?

I've bookmarked your site for next time I look up film reviews.

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Post by Roridge » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

it's a bit like http://blippr.com but no reason there can't be two (or three) similar.

I like the layout, and colours, looks easier to find media than Blippr. Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kjf » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:35 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

Very slick. I only ever read one sentence (from Rotten Tomatoes) anyway, so this fits my usage pattern for reviews. Are you planning to harvest tweets and other social media to help beef up your review base? I've bookmarked your site for next time I look up film reviews.

Absolutely. One area I feel similar sites are lacking is linking in to the the social space so that's definitely something I'll be doing. Thanks for the bookmark :)

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Post by hockeybias » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:40 PM UTC

Nice!

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Post by vinhboy » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

Sorting of reviews maybe? and you should make more stuff clickable -- like your logo for starters.

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Post by bendtheblock » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content.

The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sign in with their Twitter account (or use OAuth) and their review gets tweeted. Those are just quick ideas - there must be something that can be done in this space.

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Post by kjf » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

vinhboy wrote: post #8

Sorting of reviews maybe? and you should make more stuff clickable -- like your logo for starters.

I agree with with you about the logo. I'll need to fix that. Reviews should be sorted in descending order. Do you mean having an option to change the sort order?