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After glancing at the site: 1. It doesn't look particularly good, visually. 2. It's not immediately clear what it does. I just saw a list of recipes, so I ass

After glancing at the site: 1. It doesn't look particularly good, visually. 2. It's not immediately clear what it does. I just saw a list of recipes, so I assume it's yet another recipe site (there are 1000s). 3. After making the effort to dive in further, the "restaurants tab" seems to give me a random map with some random restaurants. I don't get it: what does the site do for me? 4. This is a startup about local restaurants, right? Local is very, very hard. And restaurant reviews just aren't very compelling, particularly because the few reviews I looked at where pretty meh, not really worth reading, quite honestly. "Seven dollar lunches -- including soda and tax -- served in about seven minutes have made Celtic Crossing an incredibly popular Memphis lunch stop." -> booooring, and not different from restaurant reviews I can read in 100 other places. I think you're on the wrong track. Sorry to be harsh.

rsbrown 16y ago
Don't be sorry! Looking for honest feedback. Re: the reviews, we're actually trying to differentiate from other websites by offering "recommendations" instead of "reviews". For example, when I'm simply looking for a place to eat lunch today I don't necessarily want to read pages and pages of long-winded exposition (i.e., reviews) -- I simply want those in the know (local foodies) to point me in the right direction. What do you think of that approach?
- petervandijck 16y ago
  Sounds good in theory, but it's not there right now. I'd work hard on the UI and the content. As per your theory, I would expect to do a search, and then see: "JoeX says 'the burgerbarx is great because of y'." Ie. show the people recommending (the foodies) and show what they say. And make it look less like a databasedump (being harsh again) ;)
  - rsbrown 16y ago
    I appreciate it. We'll post a follow-up after we clean up the UI and get a second round of opinions. The team currently consists of tech/business talent -- no designers. And it shows.

rsbrown 16y ago

Don't be sorry! Looking for honest feedback. Re: the reviews, we're actually trying to differentiate from other websites by offering "recommendations" instead of "reviews". For example, when I'm simply looking for a place to eat lunch today I don't necessarily want to read pages and pages of long-winded exposition (i.e., reviews) -- I simply want those in the know (local foodies) to point me in the right direction. What do you think of that approach?

petervandijck 16y ago
Sounds good in theory, but it's not there right now. I'd work hard on the UI and the content. As per your theory, I would expect to do a search, and then see: "JoeX says 'the burgerbarx is great because of y'." Ie. show the people recommending (the foodies) and show what they say. And make it look less like a databasedump (being harsh again) ;)
- rsbrown 16y ago
  I appreciate it. We'll post a follow-up after we clean up the UI and get a second round of opinions. The team currently consists of tech/business talent -- no designers. And it shows.