Was it TechCrunch that recently pointed to Zuckerberg's original notes on his pre-Facebook project as the source for uLiken's inspiration? Comparing the harvard kids in the facebook to farm animals on something like hot or not?
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#12Your using rails, I would have expected some nice ajaxiness at least! Page loads when voting and reloadings pics were slow, ajax would help here.
Also - I would have expected clicking on either picture would count as a 'vote', rather then having to hit the vote button.
Design is nice and clean
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#13why is this fun?
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#14I suspect facebook will not approve of their logo appearing so prominently at the top right of the page.
Not sure if it was meant to be this way.. but the design looks eerily similar to facebook's.
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#15Weellll, it's okay. It does what it does, but what it does is not really for me. Sure, I'd like to click on hot chicks, but you know what I'd really love? If, when I clicked on that chick long enough, she begins to like me! Then she calls me and buys me dinner.
Now that's a problem you startup founders should solve! Getting me laid is a killer application, I tell you.
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#16Hot or Not in a different form. I don't see the point.
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#18I may well be alone in this view and I really don't want to sound rude but personally I just can't get excited about another one of these sites. It seems the successful ones (e.g. hotornot) in this area were the ones which were both original and fun. Unfortunately, I don't think this is either. Looks beautiful and I'm sure a lot of work went into it, but not for me. I feel bad, maybe I shouldn't have posted! Hmm..
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#19This is a neat little app. Not really ground-breaking, but hey, that's not a pre-requisite for success. That said, I think this is just a web base comparator, not a startup. I must be missing something, but what pain point are you soothing? How is this new? The fact that you have categories? Are you hoping to take all the results data and try to pull something useful out of it? Or is this just a "hey, let's learn rails and make a facebook app" type thing?
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#20Well done. Simple enough. Fun to use. I'll probably never use it again, but I'm sure there are many millions of people that would spend a dozen minutes or so on this site. With that kind of traffic, I think you have a good shot of success. My prediction is that the celebrity comparison will be the most popular, followed by the user submissions. It's fun to look at pretty faces. It would be interesting to see the patterns and clusters that develop in your data. That would be very cool if you shared the statistics with the community(or if you ever need a data junky to volunteer an analyze your database shoot me a message). Good luck.