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Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by mynegation »

Very nicely done and I've been looking for something like that for a long time!

Couple of immediate remarks: 1. Allow sign-in using e-mail in addition to user name. I am using firtsnamelastname or FLastname or sometimes something else (depending on availability) and need to remember each time my username. Remembering e-mail address is much easier 2. Unless you want to limit your addressable market to US, Liberia and Myanmar, add a possibility to specify my height and width in metric units (cms and kgs)

Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by jasonkester »

doctorj wrote: post #23
jasonkester wrote: post #19

Once you're logged in, there's no way to get back to the homepage to figure out what the site is supposed to be about. I can click through restaurants and menu items, but there's no indication as to what is actually going on. Tooltips pop up randomly, and if you can manage to keep one on the screen, they give you a paragraph that doesn't actually explain what's going on. There seem to be star ratings that you can cli…

The recommendation engine takes into account the choices made prior to the current meal before making a new recommendation. You are seeing the "Looks like you selected a combo" message because someone else made a selection using the hacker account and the app will not let you select multiple meals in the same time period. This will not happen if you created an account for yourself. There is a FAQ link in the app that…

Why not simply link the logo to the homepage? That's an affordance that every other web app in existence makes, and it was pretty surprising that you don't even have your logo linked to anything.

Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by doctorj »

jasonkester wrote: post #32
doctorj wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The recommendation engine takes into account the choices made prior to the current meal before making a new recommendation. You are seeing the "Looks like you selected a combo" message because someone else made a selection using the hacker account and the app will not let you select multiple meals in the same time period. This will not happen if you created an account for yourself. There is a FAQ link in the app that…

Why not simply link the logo to the homepage? That's an affordance that every other web app in existence makes, and it was pretty surprising that you don't even have your logo linked to anything.

Great idea and done. The logo in the app now points to the all locations page. The logo outside the app points to the company home page.

Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by bajsejohannes »

cont4gious wrote: post #24
bajsejohannes wrote: post #18

I really liked going into that site and testing it out. Unfortunately, this will not be true when there is no 'hacker' account. If the site is going to be free in the future, I would definitely try to get rid of the mandatory creation of an account. How about being able to use the site (using cookies for a temporary account) and make the registration something you can do after a while? (like stackoverflow.com)

This would really defeat the purpose of personalized recommendations. The test account was for a quick look at what we offer, not as a long-term solution.

Not really. What you do is create a temporary account for each session, unless one exists already. If the user chooses to create an account later, it is not really created, but the temporary account is promoted to a permanent one, and the details like username are filled in.

Again, check out stackoverflow.com. They do this.

Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by doctorj »

bajsejohannes wrote: post #34
cont4gious wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would really defeat the purpose of personalized recommendations. The test account was for a quick look at what we offer, not as a long-term solution.

Not really. What you do is create a temporary account for each session, unless one exists already. If the user chooses to create an account later, it is not really created, but the temporary account is promoted to a permanent one, and the details like username are filled in. Again, check out stackoverflow.com. They do this.

Unlike stackoverflow.com the food recommendations generated by Usable Health are dependent on each of the answers in the sign up process. For example someone who weighs a 100 pounds will receive different recommendations from someone who weighs 200 pounds so unfortunately there is no way of getting around the complete sign up / nutritional profile creation process.

Re: Preview HN: match-making site for food

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Post by bajsejohannes »

doctorj wrote: post #35
bajsejohannes wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. What you do is create a temporary account for each session, unless one exists already. If the user chooses to create an account later, it is not really created, but the temporary account is promoted to a permanent one, and the details like username are filled in. Again, check out stackoverflow.com. They do this.

Unlike stackoverflow.com the food recommendations generated by Usable Health are dependent on each of the answers in the sign up process. For example someone who weighs a 100 pounds will receive different recommendations from someone who weighs 200 pounds so unfortunately there is no way of getting around the complete sign up / nutritional profile creation process.

I see! Well, then I agree that my suggestion might not be a good fit. (I was fooled by the fact that I could try it without entering any details)
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