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Pic A Fight: Instagram meets FaceMash
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- benjaminlotan 16y agoWow, i was in the middle of making one of these. Ha. should i stop? i was almost done.
- aepstein 16y agoChad, you are a machine.
- Skywing 16y agoWhat's the purpose? Like, what are my votes to be based on? FaceMash was based on hotness, or something. What is this? I see a picture of a C3-P0 helmet versus a picture of a VoIP phone. Am I supposed to just vote for the picture that somehow touches me the most?
- jazzychad 16y agoYep. Nothing too serious, just some fun; which ever one is more visually appealing to you, or (as you say) touches you the most. It will be interesting to see which pics rise to the top this way.
- russell_h 16y agoIt might be good to state that somewhere. When I looked at the site I felt like I was being called on to answer a question, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Led me to skip a lot of comparisons. Once I decided it didn't really matter it was a lot more relaxing. Also, gorgeous layout!
- jwegan 16y agoI think a little more instruction to the user would be helpful. I kept picking which picture I would rather be in a fight against until I came here and read the comments.
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- stevefarnworth 16y agoNice concept - not only as a bit of fun, but as visual feedback as to what types of photos your followers prefer to see from you.
- abi 16y agoCool stuff. Are you doing any face detection or do you just pick two random Instagram pics?
- jazzychad 16y agoCompletely random at this point.
- wmboy 16y agoCool idea! Just out of interest, how long did it take you to build it?
- dmpatierno 16y agoLooks great. I've been working on something similar for iOS, but with themed challenges. There's a lot of potential here. http://photochallengeapp.com http://photochallengeapp.com
- ericflo 16y ago> The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours? Thousand. Twenty-two Thousand. Is this generated dynamically? If so, awesome. If not, still cool.
- jazzychad 16y agoThis is a quotation from The Social Network. It's static. However, at the current rate, we could easily be passing that number... yikes! According to mixpanel, we've processed nearly 18k battles in less than one hour.
- tlrobinson 16y agoNice, though to be fair your potential user base includes all of the internet vs. just Harvard students.
- jazzychad 16y agoQuite true, but of all the Twitter/Social-related websites I've built (a lot), this one has seen more hits and buzz than all the rest already. Please allow me to be excited :)
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- ericxtang 16y agoDo you have a particular algorithm when selecting pictures?
- PStamatiou 16y agoselecting is random, rating is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
- melissamiranda 16y agoNice! Give it a day then see how it compares to the Flickr interesting photos. I bet there's more off beat and a better variety of photos. Human vs. Machine. Are you sharing what rises to the top via some feed? I'd love to plot them on a map.
- empire29 16y agoThe idea isnt inspired imho. That being said, allowing the user to vote using the arrow keys is. The fact that I could vote with barely any hand movement got me through ~10 votes which is 8 more that I wouldve had I been required to click on each image. Also, the design was simple, clean and effective. Good job.
- jazzychad 16y agomost ideas aren't, it's the implementations that are. we added the arrow key voting to reduce friction for exactly the reason you stated. Stammy did the design, all props to him for that. we hope you had some fun with it, that's what it was made for.
- ecto 16y agoI like the design, very clean. I did something similar at http://mugshotwars.com/ http://mugshotwars.com/ Elo is a fun algorithm. You can read about my implementation at http://campedersen.com/ http://campedersen.com/
- notphilatall 16y agoCute, I like the overall design a bit more than the voting to be honest. I did something similar over the weekend, plotting instagram pictures on a map. You can see it at http://insta.notphil.com/map.html http://insta.notphil.com/map.html - click on a place on the map and then on the pins that appear to see pictures taken there.
- cdevroe 16y agonotphilatall: I get "oops" on every click. :( But, I'd LOVE to see my Instagram photos on a Map!
- VomisaCaasi 16y agoI had an idea of building a similar dueling site using memes. Actually, I even designed and built the site, but decided to ditch the project it just before paying for a domain. The reason? I didn't want to turn into that guy who runs lolcats franchise.
- benjaminlotan 16y agobad call.
- VomisaCaasi 16y agoYou may be correct, but aside from wasting 2 weeks to plan the site, 2 weeks to the design the site, and another month to build that site, I don't particularly feel any other regrets as looking from mine point of view, there isn't anything more important than to achieve inner peace with oneself.
- hwong 16y agoThis is fun. I'm curious; what technologies are being used in the backend?
- jazzychad 16y agoNothing special.... rails 3, ruby 1.9.2 (this is my first rails app ever!), mysql, hosted on aws. stammy used Sass for the css styling. I wrote a few scripts to spin up more servers as load increases.
- aquarin 16y agoI am surprised how people spend too much time on useless things instead of solving really interesting problems. You can at least use some machine learning to present a pictures of increased interest to each user. Or present pr0n pictures based on personal taste.
- kalendae 16y agoHi, I've a identical project but for flickr photos: elograde.com with over 200k comparisons so far and some very quality photos. tho the flickr community has not really taken to it too much. (been up about a year now)
- cdevroe 16y agokalendae: Nice site. I think the major thing that separates Paul & Chad's site and your's is that you can start voting without any sign up whatsoever. Perhaps you three should collaborate or you could simply remove the registration portion and let people start voting from the homepage.
- kalendae 16y agoyou are absolutely right, most hotornot sites have that kind of low barrier to entry. my problem is that people who vote but don't submit photos don't really add to the project (not an ad site like hotornot and especially if they vote poorly and are taken out, the votes have to double up for them to have meaning to prevent random voting etc), right now there are actually way more votes than needed in proportion to people who submitted their photos. but yeah it might need some re-examining.
- dsims 16y agoDo you limit the number of photos? Seems like if the number of photos in the pool far exceeds the number of votes coming in, each photo would only ever have a handful of battles. I've build a similar voting system before but the purpose was to find a winner amongst all entries.
- jazzychad 16y agohey daniel, long time no see! we're probably going to cull the pics and delete the ones that fall below a certain elo/win/loss threshhold, so it should keep the quality of the pics high. and we can adjust the threshhold so that it keeps the total number of pics from getting too huge.
- EGreg 16y agoOne constructive criticism: it makes it too easy to just mash the left and right arrows. Take that feature away :)