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Ask HN: Review my startup, Snapherd.com
So I've just launched Snapherd, a mobile photo game. Basically, every 48 hours a new catchword or catchphrase is given, and the goal is to take a picture of what you think best represents the subject matter.
The idea is simple, but I'd love to hear what the Hacker News community thinks!
- alaskamiller 18y agocute design. kind of an addicting concept. should make this into an iphone app. need to seed more, i only see two pics/words.
- tialys 18y agoWow... and iPhone (or Android) app could be great for this! Start the app, snap a pic and send it in with details about location and everything. It would certainly put the site in front of a lot more people as well.
- petervandijck 18y agoI like it too. Nice design. Nice concept. I think you need to convince 10 friends to snap lots of pictures to get things rolling, because right now it looks pretty empty, and nobody likes an empty community site.
- endtwist 18y agoIt should start filling up quite a bit more today...the word had just rolled over last night (from "debate" to "absurd") and my friends have not submitted new images quite yet. I do very much appreciate the input, though!
- mattjung 18y agoSimple, but appealing idea, nicely done. I'll keep an eye on it. How many users do you have already?
- mwinters58 18y agobusiness model? grow traffic and sell ads?
- kenver 18y agoOffer prizes/incentives to people who manage to incorporate a second "sponsor" type word.
- tomsaffell 18y agonice idea. maybe you could try to tie the word of the day to current affairs in some way? as for building traffic, maybe you could find a way for people to vote (or even submit) w/o needing to login. you might need to bring the login back ultimately, once it's popular - but do you need it now? final thought - the home page runs off the bottom of the screen (at 1280 x 1024) by a good few hundred pixels. And the bottom is where all the real content is. Maybe reshuffle and/or shrink? cheers tom saffell
- kenver 18y agoReally good idea and I like the site. You probably know, but when I tried to find it with a search engine there was nothing there. You should probably do something about that
- walesmd 18y agoI like it - design is nice. What is the incentive for winning (other than community)? I think this is a prime opportunity to purchase (or get one donated) an iPhone or the T-Mobile G1 and give one away.
- jsmcgd 18y agoI enjoyed the HL reference. I reckon all it needs now is some users and some content. Well done.
- vaksel 18y agodid I see a sign for your site during last night's debate? Or was that something else?
- endtwist 18y agoThat was my sign during last night's pre- and post-debate, on MSNBC. It got me a few new users, but not quite as many as I'd have hoped.
- Tapthat 18y agowhere.com did this a couple years back... It got some response but you definitely need to find a way to get buzzzz
- wensing 18y agohttp://www.snapherd.com http://www.snapherd.com For convenience.
- migpwr 18y agoI wish I didn't have to register to vote for a picture... i was about to vote for deep fried candy bars on "absurd"
- joshu 18y agoToday's word is "mesothelioma"
- calambrac 18y agoWhy 48 hours? Would cycling catchwords in shorter increments do a better job of keeping people engaged with the site? What's the smallest period of time you can find that still yields decent photos?
- pxlpshr 18y agoWe tried to do this last year when the "Safari SDK" was released, but the side project died... I still think it's a great idea and you've executed it nicely. There's another iPhone application that does something similar called Scavenge built by the hosting company A Small Orange, however they currently do not have the website component as far as I can tell. http://www.apptism.com/apps/scavenge http://www.apptism.com/apps/scavenge
- jcapote 18y agoopenid support would be nice, but I love the idea.