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Show HN: OpenCirclez (Feedback welcome)

15 points by kapilkaisare 16y ago

ilium 16y ago
I was thinking about doing something like that not too long ago, glad to see someone's doing it. Where are you getting your events?
mhansen 16y ago
I can't figure out how to change my location from Manhattan (I'm in Australia)
- kapilkaisare 16y ago
  Hi 1. Did you enable the 'Share Location' option in your browser? It should have appeared on pageload. 2. The 'More Options' should allow you to change the city/area. Also, could you let me know which browser and OS you're using? EDIT: corrected typo.
  - mhansen 16y ago
    Thanks for replying! I didn't see anything on pageload. I'm on Chromium 8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10. (EDIT: I reloaded again, and I saw a bar come down asking if I can give this site my location. The bar was in light blue, and it was well camouflaged with the title of your page, and it also disappeared in a few seconds, so I never saw it the first time)
thinkdevcode 16y ago
Neat idea... 2 things: 1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a loop. 2) The twitter bar on the right side is too far down on the side and elongates your page. I dont believe this is intentional though because it doesnt look good. (screenshot: http://pexelu.com/Untitled.png http://pexelu.com/Untitled.png)
minalecs 16y ago
what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?
- shadowpwner 16y ago
  Not OP, but this lets you find events outside of your social circle (to the best of my knowledge).
  - minalecs 16y ago
    well just off the top of my head, I know upcoming (yahoo), going (aol), and myspace events all are events sites that allow search by location.
bertil 16y ago
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure why ‘Circles‘ are a problem, for instance, or whether you improve from them. Same problem with location — I didn't know where I was located, but it seemed to be Manhattan; when I tried to change that, I hit the wheel of death. To face testing, chicken-and-egg, you might want to filter your service to an area with enough density to make sense (but I'm not sure about the most obvious places where you'll find thematic competition). No cancel button on the “Post a message if anyone want to join you”. Biggest issue that I see so far: how do you improve things from Meetup?
sil3ntmac 16y ago
Using Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.

15 points by kapilkaisare 16y ago

ilium 16y ago

I was thinking about doing something like that not too long ago, glad to see someone's doing it. Where are you getting your events?

mhansen 16y ago

I can't figure out how to change my location from Manhattan (I'm in Australia)

kapilkaisare 16y ago
Hi 1. Did you enable the 'Share Location' option in your browser? It should have appeared on pageload. 2. The 'More Options' should allow you to change the city/area. Also, could you let me know which browser and OS you're using? EDIT: corrected typo.
- mhansen 16y ago
  Thanks for replying! I didn't see anything on pageload. I'm on Chromium 8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10. (EDIT: I reloaded again, and I saw a bar come down asking if I can give this site my location. The bar was in light blue, and it was well camouflaged with the title of your page, and it also disappeared in a few seconds, so I never saw it the first time)

thinkdevcode 16y ago

Neat idea... 2 things: 1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a loop. 2) The twitter bar on the right side is too far down on the side and elongates your page. I dont believe this is intentional though because it doesnt look good. (screenshot: http://pexelu.com/Untitled.png http://pexelu.com/Untitled.png)

minalecs 16y ago

what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?

shadowpwner 16y ago
Not OP, but this lets you find events outside of your social circle (to the best of my knowledge).
- minalecs 16y ago
  well just off the top of my head, I know upcoming (yahoo), going (aol), and myspace events all are events sites that allow search by location.

bertil 16y ago

Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure why ‘Circles‘ are a problem, for instance, or whether you improve from them. Same problem with location — I didn't know where I was located, but it seemed to be Manhattan; when I tried to change that, I hit the wheel of death. To face testing, chicken-and-egg, you might want to filter your service to an area with enough density to make sense (but I'm not sure about the most obvious places where you'll find thematic competition). No cancel button on the “Post a message if anyone want to join you”. Biggest issue that I see so far: how do you improve things from Meetup?

sil3ntmac 16y ago

Using Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.