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Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#31
Looks great, guys. I think this is a cool idea.

The initial search box is flawed. I typed in "New York City" and it got stuck on that. You should be more flexible with user inputs, or at least fix the autocomplete so it still suggests "New York, NY" after I've typed in "New York City"..

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#32
Great UI and I like the large, in your face text sizes.

I notice that the suggestions for Miami are kind of weak in terms of interest value and the photos associated with them don't make sense (i.e., a guy in a nightclub for Dadeland Mall). Where are you getting the data from?

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#33
post #32

Great UI and I like the large, in your face text sizes. I notice that the suggestions for Miami are kind of weak in terms of interest value and the photos associated with them don't make sense (i.e., a guy in a nightclub for Dadeland Mall). Where are you getting the data from?

A lot of our photos are pulled from social networks, especially Foursquare.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#34

– The search button floating outside of search box looks off to me. (safari) – The search UX isn't very good. I sat there for 20-30 seconds after typing "detroit" in the box and clicking on the greyed-out button (not clear that's a deactivated state until you see green) before realizing that i had to make a selection from the drop down. I would add a notification with instructions upon clicking on the greyed out one…

Thanks - very helpful. Will check the search bug in Safari.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#35

Overall, this is really excellent. My town is small but near Silicon Valley, and this does a great job of showing me stuff that's actually near me. Well done! I imagine it's going to be hard to present information in the same way for large and small towns... Maybe you need some kind of a city/busy/crowded interface to give categories and narrow down, but for a little place without much of interest you just showed pag…

Great to hear you found some new stuff. If you logged in, you should start to see friend check-ins and things that are trending.

Do you think time of day would help or search instead of filter?

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#36
post #22

looks nice but no middle-click or no open in new tab kills it for me. also the results show events that were only temporary and are already over .i only checked Hamburg, Germany and the first 2 results are temporary events that are over.

We'll have to double check about expired events- they should automatically filter out. Thanks for the catch.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#37
post #32

Great UI and I like the large, in your face text sizes. I notice that the suggestions for Miami are kind of weak in terms of interest value and the photos associated with them don't make sense (i.e., a guy in a nightclub for Dadeland Mall). Where are you getting the data from?

Blocks8 is correct about the source. We are looking into both getting more/better sources of photos as well as improving how we select and reveal these images to the user so that we are showing the best and most relevant images

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#38
post #31

Looks great, guys. I think this is a cool idea. The initial search box is flawed. I typed in "New York City" and it got stuck on that. You should be more flexible with user inputs, or at least fix the autocomplete so it still suggests "New York, NY" after I've typed in "New York City"..

Oops! thanks for the input, we are planning on improving the autocomplete for cities in a few ways, added this to the last, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

#40
At first I didn't know whether to start putting in something to do or put my city in. I got confused when I started to put in "Watch a movie" and it didn't come up with any autocomplete results. It might be good to mention in the search bar, maybe as a placeholder "New York City, NY" or maybe even have your city retrieved through the HTML5 Location API.

Also, jQuery UI's Autocomplete by default looks really bad. While yeah, usability comes before shinyness, it's something worth fixing when there's time.

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