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Looks neat. Couple suggestions: 1. Add some suggested artists that let me click and immediately start watching/listening. You want to demonstrate the value as
by huangm 16y ago
Looks neat.
Couple suggestions:
1. Add some suggested artists that let me click and immediately start watching/listening. You want to demonstrate the value asap, so anything you can do to reduce thinking will help. I spent awhile thinking, came up with "Arcade Fire", then found that there were no results. If this wasn't a post on HN, I would've bounced there.
2. Keyboard shortcuts. But this is obvious, and I'm sure you'll get around to it.
3. The on-hover controls are ok, but there should be some indication that they exist before I mouse-over. You could also use some basic icons to make the controls easier to parse (especially arrows for next and prev).
4. As it stands now, there's no way to surf videos easily. After clicking "next", I have to move my mouse out of the central area, then move it back over to click "next" again. The goal of a site like this is to facilitate brainless and easy surfing, so you should try to reduce as many friction points as possible.
- 32ftpersecond 16y agoThis. And the fourth video related to Radiohead was a 2 hour and 24 minute video of the 4th meeting of the Bipartisan Fiscal Commission in the USA... a la http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSXhjjsRcCQ&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSXhjjsRcCQ&feature=playe...
- jpwagner 16y agothe selection algorithm is going to be pretty hard here. i had a different problem, somehow getting stuck in a loop of two videos, back and forth forever. new Jam!
- iloveyouocean 16y agoThanks so much for the feedback. 1) I personally like the 'Google search box' method more than suggested artists, but I will definitely implement it and see what happens. Also, no results for 'Arcade Fire'? Bummer, I get plenty? 2)On their way :) 3)The controls are indeed a bit rough, improvements coming. 4) Excellent point. Perhaps we will make the 'Next' and 'Alternate' buttons persistent.
- petenixey 16y agoSeems like a great idea but I agree strongly with point 1 here. As retarded as it is it took me 20s just to remember Lady Gaga's name. Why not just start playing a video with the volume down, a one-click unmute button and then have five or six more popular ones for someone to chose down the side.
- pmsaue0 16y ago3) some basic icons added. good suggestion
- inkaudio 16y agoI discovered another site that does exactly the same thing but with seemingly better algorithms for pulling the Last.fm data. The site: http://tv.timbormans.com/ http://tv.timbormans.com/ was developed in 2007. Just not the same marketing story as viddyjam.