I wanted to add a couple of nightclubs in my town (Kiev, Ukraine) but I was limited to London?
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#12I'd like to see a feature where people could at photos from those buzzed locations. Integrate with twitter, facebook etc.
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#13I'm a little confused as to the workflow. Here's what i did, assuming I wanted to vote on a place I like:
1. Enter "fernandez & wells" into the name box. Hit search. 2. Two results are shown. Both have what look like votes already (+4, +5 icons). But my only action is "add this place." Where do I vote? 3. When I click to add the place, I'm presented with a big form, which I don't care about. I click "add place" anyway, and after clicking a couple of times with nothing happening, i realize it's trying to get me to select a category. I select a category (restaurant), click add again, and get an error "invalid username or userid in get_avatar"
So... hiccups aside, seems like a good idea. Execution-wise, streamline, streamline, streamline.
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#14Like it. The header part is to big in my opinion. You should come up with a nice slogan or a line to describe what your project is about. How do you do approach new customers? What is the business model behind it?
I'm having a little difficulty coming up with a tagline for the site that isn't "It's Digg for Places". Any suggestions on this front would be hugely appreciated. As would suggestions of strategies for approaching new customers. It's brand new at the moment, I'm still working out some problems but once it's ready I want to be in a position to grow reasonably quickly.
Re. the business model - I have a few ideas in mind right now, particularly in the arena of local advertising/coupons/offers. Nothing fleshed out yet.
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#15Nice idea and nice design. It would also be nice if you could show people stuff from their own city (IP geolocation maybe?).
Of course - that's the plan. We're London only for now as we work things out. Once it's fairly stable we should be able to roll out to other cities pretty rapidly.
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#16I'd like to see a feature where people could at photos from those buzzed locations. Integrate with twitter, facebook etc.
Great idea - I also want to add Facebook Connect functionality to remove a barrier to entry for signup.
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#17I'd be interested to see a service like this track what is happening real time. So, imagine a user goes to a bar and texts/emails/iPhone app, whatever, that would buzz up that local for the night. Then users could look to see what is going on in real time. That may be what you are doing here, if so, I would make it more clear. As it is, it seems like a review site, almost like Urbanspoon.
A mobile interaction is necessary, I agree. Without it we're left showing you what popular in the past day/week/month/all time as we have at the moment.
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#18I wanted to add a couple of nightclubs in my town (Kiev, Ukraine) but I was limited to London?
OP said it was London only at the moment while he's testing it.
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#19I'm a little confused as to the workflow. Here's what i did, assuming I wanted to vote on a place I like: 1. Enter "fernandez & wells" into the name box. Hit search. 2. Two results are shown. Both have what look like votes already (+4, +5 icons). But my only action is "add this place." Where do I vote? 3. When I click to add the place, I'm presented with a big form, which I don't care about. I click "add place" anywa…
OK - this is a product of it being somewhat rushed to get something out the door.
The workflow does need to be trimmed, let me explain a little of what went on there.
1) You entered "fernandez & wells" we check our DB, found nothing then went off to check Google 2) The 2 results were from Google. The +4 icon is confusing here, it's a half implemented feature. It's actually there to show how much Karma a user would get by adding it. 3) I should make the error more prominent. As for "invalid username or userid in get_avatar" - basically you shouldn't have got to this screen to be able to add a venue without being logged in. I'll make the user check early and redirect to the login/registration screen.
Thanks for the feedback.
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#20I'd be interested to see a service like this track what is happening real time. So, imagine a user goes to a bar and texts/emails/iPhone app, whatever, that would buzz up that local for the night. Then users could look to see what is going on in real time. That may be what you are doing here, if so, I would make it more clear. As it is, it seems like a review site, almost like Urbanspoon.
A mobile interaction is necessary, I agree. Without it we're left showing you what popular in the past day/week/month/all time as we have at the moment.
Yeah I think the ussage would really benefit from tailor made mobile apps.