Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

tastebuds.fm

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 70 posts

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#11

Post by aeontech »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #9

It takes about 2 minutes worth of queries to discover there are no girls on this site. There are 3 girls there who match ["Rammstein", "Johnny Cash", "Radiohead"] as well as ["Lady Gaga", "Britney Spears", "Justin Bieber"]. If I type in my zip code, all 9 girls are identical. Nice concept, however.

I see 61 pages of results * 9 results per page with my last.fm profile.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#12

Post by joshbert »

This is incredible. I put my username in and was immediately prompted with nearly 10 females from around.

I may be getting ahead of myself here, but if I marry one of these girls, I shall invite you to our wedding which will have both our last.fm personal radio stations as music.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#15

Post by blhack »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #9

It takes about 2 minutes worth of queries to discover there are no girls on this site. There are 3 girls there who match ["Rammstein", "Johnny Cash", "Radiohead"] as well as ["Lady Gaga", "Britney Spears", "Justin Bieber"]. If I type in my zip code, all 9 girls are identical. Nice concept, however.

You're right, it is a nice concept. You're wrong, however, that there are "no girls on the site". I have gotten 9 results (at least) that appear to be completely different than yours.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#18

Post by dfreidin »

Great concept, and so far it looks like the execution is really good as well. However, I agree with rnernento about the gender icons. I see how they're based on the standard male and female symbols, but it's still a bit confusing, and not even slightly intuitive to someone who's never seen them before. I'm not sure what a better clever idea would be, but perhaps it would be best to switch to a basic M and F until another idea presents itself. Confusing symbols could potentially drive people away for no good reason.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#19

Post by kmfrk »

"Sorry, we couldn't find you any matches in using those artists."

My inner socialite is upset, but the hipster part of me is pleased. :)

As has already been mentioned, amazing name and a-mazing design.

I look forward to checking into the site when the user base is bigger, so I'll find me some like-minded hipsters.

Post reply on HN