Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
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#2... and it will let you meet them.
Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1].
HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this:
1) You search for people
2) You talk to them
3) You rate them
4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting
Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as you do. It's important to note that people don't get a global rating, so there won't be good and bad people. There will only be people who are more or less likely to find meeting each other worthwhile.
There are still many issues I have to work on. The biggest challenge I am currently facing is to get users in order to find out how people feel about HumanamuH. If you have any advice on how to "go viral", I'd be happy to listen.
[1] Why this name? Its slogan is "Where humans meet." therefore "Human" meets "Human" => "HumanamuH".
Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
#3... and it will let you meet them. Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1]. HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this: 1) You search for people 2) You talk to them 3) You rate them 4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as…
I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email address.
Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I would find likeminded people by chance on odd websites; I think that's become harder as I've grown older.
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#4This is an amazing idea. I think it has infinite potential. Are you working in it full time ?
Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
#5... and it will let you meet them. Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1]. HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this: 1) You search for people 2) You talk to them 3) You rate them 4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as…
I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email address. Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I…
Yes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?
Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
#6This is an amazing idea. I think it has infinite potential. Are you working in it full time ?
I'm glad you like the idea. I am working near full time on it. Who needs weekends anyways?
Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email address. Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I…
Yes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?
Perhaps you could only share a limited amount of information to non-users, like the topics they'd like to talk about, and an "about you" or something. Just enough to catch one's interest.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?
Perhaps you could only share a limited amount of information to non-users, like the topics they'd like to talk about, and an "about you" or something. Just enough to catch one's interest.
Interesting idea. If one doesn't want to leak any profile information, one could only show the number of results to non-users but not the actual profiles.
Of course, it's very hard to prevent any malicious use of the profile data.
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#9Don't these sort of graphs always end up with a couple nodes having the majority of connections?
I'm leery of the idea of rating people and suspect this will just make explicit existing hierarchies.
Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
#10Don't these sort of graphs always end up with a couple nodes having the majority of connections? I'm leery of the idea of rating people and suspect this will just make explicit existing hierarchies.
It would be great if I had a big enough graph to answer your question. Hopefully this will change. It would be very interesting data.
My hope is that, given enough users, there will be many predictions across existing hierarchies.