I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
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Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#2You can now add pics too.
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#3Neat. One thing I might have done differently was to not make ratings on a 0-100 scale. We learned this the hard way at Cork'd; what's the real difference between 85 or 86? To the untrained palette, not much.
Also, curious how you're dealing with normalization of beer names; also an interesting challenge.
Good stuff overall; the site is fast and seems like it's got the right mix of features to make it fun to use. Best of luck!
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#4Neat. One thing I might have done differently was to not make ratings on a 0-100 scale. We learned this the hard way at Cork'd; what's the real difference between 85 or 86? To the untrained palette, not much. Also, curious how you're dealing with normalization of beer names; also an interesting challenge. Good stuff overall; the site is fast and seems like it's got the right mix of features to make it fun to use. Bes…
+1 for the rating advice. Make the beer ratings 0 to 10.
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#5Nice work. One thing that confused me: I register for an account and sign in, but when I try to comment on a beer, it asks me to login through Disqus or Facebook or OpenID, etc. Having 2 different authentication schemes in the same site is jarring.
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#6My suggestion would be to take the "Added" activities off the main feed, as it looks a little redundant to say "Someone drank [X beer]", immediately followed by "Someone added [X beer]".
Besides that, on the About page, the word "remember" is misspelled and I would capitalize Miller/Coors/Bud to make it look more professional.
But I like the idea!
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#7Needs a better color scheme and possible a picture of some beer.
What is a drink when it comes to beer? I am not american, so that might be a language issue.
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#8Neat. One thing I might have done differently was to not make ratings on a 0-100 scale. We learned this the hard way at Cork'd; what's the real difference between 85 or 86? To the untrained palette, not much. Also, curious how you're dealing with normalization of beer names; also an interesting challenge. Good stuff overall; the site is fast and seems like it's got the right mix of features to make it fun to use. Bes…
+1 for the rating advice. Make the beer ratings 0 to 10.
look how facebook or youtube are doing it... like or dislike. should be that easy. also I don't recall a situation where I thought: "well, maybe I like this beer"
Re: I made a beer website, brooski.net, check it out. Let me know what you think.
#9You might want to consider getting involved with the Open Beer Database (for the beer listings themselves) rather than become yet another island of beer information on the web.
"The goal of the Open Beer Database is to centralize basic beer and brewery information. We respect and enjoy all of the beer related communities that have sprung up across the internet, however, our main concern is the non-open nature of these community's databases. The continual duplication of this data will eventually lead to incomplete and/or out-of-date sources for basic beer and brewery data."
I'm a BeerAdvocate.com user but I do think that there is room for a more social rating/sharing site that is more focused on questions like: What are my friends drinking/recommending? What do I like? What is available near me?
edit - I'd recommend looking the "BeerAdvocate Talk & Site Help " board on BeerAdvocate and picking out the suggestions that are related to social sharing of information and ratings. The site is very much focused on long-form reviews and these types of suggestions are often shot down, but the ideas and opinions should be valuable to you.