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Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jcutrell »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #18
ToastyMallows wrote: post #16

It's not finding me by current location, it drops me in the map at what looks like Coords 0,0 in the Pacific Ocean.

Sorry about that! Probably not too many restaurants there to endorse. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it.

Same here - Chattanooga, TN plops me right in the ocean.

Tangentially related not, someone needs to put something awesome at that spot. It'd be the real life version of hijacking faecbook.com hits.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

#32

Post by thinkdevcode »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #9
josephjrobison wrote: post #6

Awesome job! I agree with your opinion on Yelp being imperfect for specific tastes, since it's all aggregate. What's your plan for gaining users, and getting to that critical mass?

Thanks! Learning how to grow a product is part of the next steps for me. Figuring out how to provide value before a user has a ton of friends on the site is important. One thought I've had is making featured lists from notable food critics for example.

Awesome job finishing the site! On a personal note I spend a lot of time eating out, especially at really great restaurants (5 star) all over Miami and Fort Lauderdale, FL. I would love to start adding restaurants, comments, etc. to this app but there is no real "push" for me to do that. Maybe some gamification? Points/rewards/mentions/etc. so that I feel like i'm gaining something by contributing? Just a thought. There may be other people who feel the same way

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

#33

Post by jenniferDewalt »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #20
nobodysfool wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Even when I put in my zipcode, it's not finding me and dropping me at 0,0. The name of my location shows up correctly in the search box, but it returns no results and drops me in the ocean. I can scroll around the map and zoom into my city, but it finds no results.

Hm, I think I understand the problem. Back to the code to see if I can track it down. :)

Ok, figured it out! Should be all fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

thinkdevcode wrote: post #32
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Learning how to grow a product is part of the next steps for me. Figuring out how to provide value before a user has a ton of friends on the site is important. One thought I've had is making featured lists from notable food critics for example.

Awesome job finishing the site! On a personal note I spend a lot of time eating out, especially at really great restaurants (5 star) all over Miami and Fort Lauderdale, FL. I would love to start adding restaurants, comments, etc. to this app but there is no real "push" for me to do that. Maybe some gamification? Points/rewards/mentions/etc. so that I feel like i'm gaining something by contributing? Just a thought. Th…

That is an excellent point and something I've been thinking about as well. One thought I've had is adding some sort of rating system where people who are active on the site get promoted as 'Awesome people who have good taste' (working title). I'm also thinking about ways to make the site more useful on a personal level.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

#37

Post by jenniferDewalt »

valtron wrote: post #34

I can see this being much better than Yelp. How are you doing the recommendations? Something along the lines of PageRank?

So far the site is based on location and what the people you're following have endorsed. In the future, results could also be ordered by things like number of endorsers, photos or comments.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

hardxxxtarget wrote: post #39

The UI is pretty amazing. But why do the body tags appear empty when I see the view source?

Thanks! The front end uses Backbone.js so most of the content is rendered with Javascript. The backend uses Rails as an api which on page load sends along a barebones html doc for Backbone to latch on to and work its magic. You can check out the source code on GitHub - https://github.com/jendewalt/yumhacker
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