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Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

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Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#21

It takes about 2 minutes worth of queries to discover there are no girls on this site. There are 3 girls there who match ["Rammstein", "Johnny Cash", "Radiohead"] as well as ["Lady Gaga", "Britney Spears", "Justin Bieber"]. If I type in my zip code, all 9 girls are identical. Nice concept, however.

I see 61 pages of results * 9 results per page with my last.fm profile.

Have you actually looked at the other pages?

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#22

"I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like... Books, records, films - these things matter." --Rob (John Cusack) in High Fidelity

I immediately thought of this as well upon seeing the site.

However didn't he come to the realization later in the book that perhaps those things aren't so important?

(I hope to come to that realization some day as well, soldiering on until then.)

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#24
post #22

"I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like... Books, records, films - these things matter." --Rob (John Cusack) in High Fidelity

I immediately thought of this as well upon seeing the site. However didn't he come to the realization later in the book that perhaps those things aren't so important? (I hope to come to that realization some day as well, soldiering on until then.)

I honestly can't remember, I've only seen the movie once, like 6 years ago, when a girl I was dating showed it to me primarily because she liked this quote. Other than this, I don't recall much of the movie.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#25
post #19

"Sorry, we couldn't find you any matches in using those artists." My inner socialite is upset, but the hipster part of me is pleased. :) As has already been mentioned, amazing name and a-mazing design. I look forward to checking into the site when the user base is bigger, so I'll find me some like-minded hipsters.

Sadly, I feel the same :). The catch-22 is that if the site is able to grab a user base, we'll be in a far larger company. I feel so torn...

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#27

Can I ask who did your design?

Our drummer (both founders play in a band together) did most of the initial work: http://milomarsei.com/. My friend Tim did the logo - timkeeling.com. And we've added to it as we went along, though we're both developers mostly.

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#29
Just amazing user flow. I immediately sent this to my designer and said 'THIS is what we need to do'. Really great instant gratification and user acquisition flow. Agree with other comments about the gender icons. I had to pause for a second and think about which I was :)

Very well done. I will you tons of success!

Re: Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

#30

First Impressions: The name is really really good. The design is top-notch, one of the best looking sites, let alone startups I've seen in a while. One thing, to me the male/female symbols were not intuitive. I see that they're labeled and they do look cool but I feel they take a way from an almost perfect interface. Unfortunately once I fill out the basic info I'm having trouble getting it to load. The page comes up…

Can you explain where exactly it's going blank? Is it after you update your profile or on the search page? I agree we could perhaps improve on those gender icons.

The search results after I fill out the "click here to begin" stuff and click go.
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