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Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by HumanamuH »

ElliotH wrote: post #40
HumanamuH wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording? I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.

Asking for: - Looking - Orientation - Gender And then, 'what do you intend to do with people' or similar wording on the next page. I realise it's all innocent, it just sets an odd tone.

I'm open for suggestions on how to improve the wording. Quite tricky that languages are so overladen with all sorts of meanings. Especially challenging if it's not one's first language.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by FredBrach »

HumanamuH wrote: post #36
FredBrach wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Btw, the website is strong, looks serious and relatively trustable. It's a bit tedious to access the content but it's not very important, some people will care anyway. Best luck with it.

> Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Sorry, I don't understand the question. Can you elaborate what felt tedious to you?

> Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Sorry, I don't understand the question.

HumanamuH is about meeting people right? Will people meet other people like they would in private life - friends, love etc, or like they would in their non-private/professional one?

There is a distinction between the two in the real world. So if I seek to meet people in a non-private mode with HumanamuH, which is what I thought was the point because of its design, I don't want to see any sexual things in it. In other words, I will not want to meet, let's say a software engineer, with a profile which say: "I'm not looking for a sexual partner right now.".

Concerning what's tedious to me, I think the precise thing is the splited registration process: first the email, then check it, and after I have to re-enter other informations. Maybe: enter register informations and then just check the email would be ok.

[edit: change/update professional by non-private]

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by begriffs »

Two things I really like about this social network: it's simple, and it's oriented towards connecting interesting people.

I love that people get to post their intentions. Intentions mean people are doing things -- and can meet and help each other. This site is not for photosharing narcissists who are scared to venture outside their circle of friends, it's for adventurous people who want to meet more people to "enrich their lives" as the site says.

I'm excited to see HumanamuH take off, and I'm looking forward to using the "enriching" social network.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by HumanamuH »

unconed wrote: post #39
HumanamuH wrote: post #5

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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?

"I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users." And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.

True. I'm not sure how to effectively prevent harvesting. Limiting the rate at which profiles can be fetched only goes so far.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by HumanamuH »

begriffs wrote: post #43

Two things I really like about this social network: it's simple, and it's oriented towards connecting interesting people. I love that people get to post their intentions. Intentions mean people are doing things -- and can meet and help each other. This site is not for photosharing narcissists who are scared to venture outside their circle of friends, it's for adventurous people who want to meet more people to "enrich…

I hope that knowing what people intend to talk about and intend to do makes meeting people online a better experience. Especially in combination with predictions.

After reading online profiles, I often feel that I'm still missing something to decide whether I want to meet that person. Knowing about favorite movies or brands or whether someone is bad at describing himself, doesn't tell me much.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by HumanamuH »

FredBrach wrote: post #42
HumanamuH wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Sorry, I don't understand the question. Can you elaborate what felt tedious to you?

> Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Sorry, I don't understand the question. HumanamuH is about meeting people right? Will people meet other people like they would in private life - friends, love etc, or like they would in their non-private/professional one? There is a distinction between the two in the real world. So if I seek to meet people in a non-private mode with HumanamuH, which is what I thought wa…

Thanks for the clarification. HumanamuH isn't fixed to either non-private or professional contacts. Its purpose is to meet people who you find worthwhile to meet. Whether you decide to go on vacation with them or do business is up to you.

Stating that one isn't looking is meant to allow people to discourage dating requests if they aren't interested. Some people would certainly love to tell all their co-workers that they weren't looking for a partnership upfront. :-)

With the registration process I wanted to make sure to have a valid email address of every user. Otherwise people might start using the site, forget their passwords and then ask me to give them access to their accounts in order to not lose their established contacts.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by autophil »

HumanamuH wrote: post #38
autophil wrote: post #35

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I just didn't know what I was signing up for, and the name doesn't tell me anything. But I like the name a lot. I just think you need a killer tagline or something.

Just curious. Did you read the current tag line, the landing page and the tour and still felt that you've got no idea what it's all about?

Right.

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by jkaljundi »

HumanamuH wrote: post #13
jkaljundi wrote: post #11

You should provide more information on how the service works and what it does before asking for an e-mail address to sign up.

I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public. Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question. I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to h…

By "how it works" did not mean the internals but how the usage flow looks to the user and what the actual functionality is.

Re "what it does" - might have been my Saturday morning slowness, but I completely missed the tour link/page.

You could do some tests on the landing page using http://fivesecondtest.com/ to see what others notice and understand there. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

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Post by HumanamuH »

jkaljundi wrote: post #48
HumanamuH wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public. Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question. I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to h…

By "how it works" did not mean the internals but how the usage flow looks to the user and what the actual functionality is. Re "what it does" - might have been my Saturday morning slowness, but I completely missed the tour link/page. You could do some tests on the landing page using http://fivesecondtest.com/ to see what others notice and understand there. Good luck!

Thanks a lot for your clarification and for the very interesting link!
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