Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think? • Hacker News Board

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by drdoctrine » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:46 PM UTC

magicmarkker wrote: post #7

magicmarkker wrote: post #5

Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.

Also there is no way to delete my account.

We are still working on that, we will defenetely impelement this in the near future. You will receive a newsletter when it's ready! If you can't wait shoot us a mail to account@mercurypuzzle.com that you want your account to be removed.

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

Mindphreaker wrote: post #4

I really like the look and feel of your frontpage! The "retina ready" badge on the right side made me chuckle.. ^^

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Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by drdoctrine » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

magicmarkker wrote: post #5

Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.

The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: birke@mercurypuzzle.com

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by klapinat0r » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png

If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same.

> > >

While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent.

There are no javascript errors.

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by xmpir » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:51 PM UTC

the adress for google is a small sales office in vienna. the adress for microsoft is the headquarters in redmond.

however those are my best-matching companies - sounds legit.

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by drdoctrine » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:55 PM UTC

klapinat0r wrote: post #14

Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same. > > > While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent. There are no javascript errors.

Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by drdoctrine » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 7:02 PM UTC

josephpmay wrote: post #3

Looks great! A couple of things: 1) The blue background in the "They are already in" section of the website is flickering on my laptop (13" non-retina MPB). 2) Why do you need so much information from my Facebook login? I understand Email and profile information, but why photos, status updates, and friends' profile information?

We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by nicvee » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

Great job guys! I really like the layout and the clear structure of the submenus. I´m curious if you come out on top!

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by codegeek » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

magicmarkker wrote: post #5

Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.

agreed. I tried searching New York but i get some town "New owen" ? in Kentucky.

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Post by klapinat0r » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 7:05 PM UTC

drdoctrine wrote: post #16

klapinat0r wrote: post #14

Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same. > > > While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent. There are no javascript errors.

Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?

It does work (also text on the front page when choosing field of interest). I had no idea I was not on english, and I hadn't chosen Dutch - I'm not in Netherlands.

I can not reset my answer though. If I choose "Back to start" followed by "Back to frontpage" and start over, I'm at step 3/7 again.

Not sure if it's related, but I see the (otherwise great) introduction/tour every time I restart.

Also, I can start matching without choosing a field of interest.

I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just writing down what I know in case it can help you solve it (or confirm that it only happens to me).

Trying on Chrome on Mac does work, but also has the "stuck at step 3/7" problem.

Firefox on Mac does work.