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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

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Post by jollyjerry »

kilian wrote: post #33

Hey Julian, when are you gonna e-mail me back? ;) Anyway, tastebuds is great. Though there are no matches in my country yet, a cute girl from some other country did favorite me. What I miss is search in all matches regardless of country.

offtopic, but guitaryst looks pretty sweet. You guys should compile a list of other cool apps built on top of last.fm

great job on the UX for tastebuds. It's not only pretty, but the barrier to entry was low and really draws you in to try it. The artist autocomplete was a perfect example of this.

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

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Post by dheerosaur »

dfreidin wrote: post #18

Great concept, and so far it looks like the execution is really good as well. However, I agree with rnernento about the gender icons. I see how they're based on the standard male and female symbols, but it's still a bit confusing, and not even slightly intuitive to someone who's never seen them before. I'm not sure what a better clever idea would be, but perhaps it would be best to switch to a basic M and F until ano…

Will small face icons or smilies be good alternatives for M and F?

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

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Post by kjell »

I wrote this down in my idea book a month ago, but I figured eventually someone else would do it. And this is sweet.

One feature request: could you somehow weigh the different artists in my history according to what I've been listening to lately? I've got 7 years of audioscrobbler history, and my musical tastes have been everywhere in that time. Today they're pretty far out there as far as people my age go. The matches it shows me line up much better with a five-years-younger me. I'm sure you've already thought of this and lots of data needs to be there before the matching can get complex. Just wanted to throw in my pennies.

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

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Post by Mz »

I'm generally against dating sites for the same reason I am against dating (short version: I think it's a broken paradigm). But I'm impressed with this idea. Kudos for finding some connection to start out with other than "we both are hoping to get hooked up". I hope you do very well.

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

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Post by mahmud »

Mz wrote: post #57

I'm generally against dating sites for the same reason I am against dating (short version: I think it's a broken paradigm). But I'm impressed with this idea. Kudos for finding some connection to start out with other than "we both are hoping to get hooked up". I hope you do very well.

I'm generally against dating sites for the same reason I am against dating

You're against dating? Two consenting adults courting each other to better know each other .. seems like a very sensible thing to me. Without dating what do we have left? arranged marriage and kidnapping?

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

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Post by ThomPete »

zavulon wrote: post #50

This is great.. the only thing I don't like is how you have to register to view someone's profile. Seems like you should need to register to message them.. how am I supposed to be interested enough to sign up without seeing any profiles?

I guess that since you can see pictures you will know whether you are interested or not enough to sign up for the rest.
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