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Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake »

zupreme wrote: post #13

I'm on a relatively fast connection (16mb down) and it took a significant amount of time to load for me (Macbook Pro using Safari). Perhaps enabling caching on your server will help speed things up some. The site looks good otherwise. Good luck!

Thanks. I've left the optimizing to later...oops.

Just out of curiosity, did you see the basic UI, then a "loading..." title with an ad rotating? If so, that was because the influx of votes made all the current matches pretty much end within 3 seconds. Yikes!

I'll probably use Amazon CloudFront at some point.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake »

kkbb wrote: post #20

Great idea, I think this will be a big success. Personally I don't think you should let people vote within a certain breed, its more fun as a free-for-all. That being said, it would be cool to browse through the top ranked within a breed. Most people will be interested in voting non-stop, but some might just be looking for a specific breed to adopt. And now that I think of it, in order to better categorize the dogs y…

Thanks! One of the things on my list is to normalize the breed information so I can do just that.

I'm also working on a widget with push updates so people can embed it on their blog and watch the voting live.

Love the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by kkbb »

kkbb wrote: post #20

Great idea, I think this will be a big success. Personally I don't think you should let people vote within a certain breed, its more fun as a free-for-all. That being said, it would be cool to browse through the top ranked within a breed. Most people will be interested in voting non-stop, but some might just be looking for a specific breed to adopt. And now that I think of it, in order to better categorize the dogs y…

Oh also, after your finished with the cat version pls do a ferret one.

jk jk

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake »

TWSS wrote: post #25

I love that most of the dogs seem to be adoptable. It's a great hook. I wonder if you could allow users who've logged in with Facebook to only see dogs near them.

That's a really good idea. I suppose I should add a box for zip code on the submit dog page and show it when the user provides an Adoption URL.

I guess I didn't think of that because most of my friends' dogs where adopted from all over the country.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake »

mrhyperpenguin wrote: post #10
jayzee wrote: post #5

I would not start running ads right out of the gate. You could show something funny while the pics load instead of ads.

I agree with this. I waited 30 seconds just looking at ads while the page was 'loading'. After that I just left because I felt you were more interested in show me ads than content.

I totally agree. The ads that were showing should only have shown IF you'd worked through all the possible matches to vote on. The HN bump had almost instantly completed every match available and the system hadn't generated more yet.

It was configured to end a match after one dog got 5 votes and won by two, a process that normally takes hours. It took less than a second with the HN traffic. My bad.

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