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40 points by satjot 14y ago

Tapfame is the easiest way to create a portfolio of all the mobile apps you've worked on. Once you create a portfolio you will start receiving freelance gigs that businesses and companies post.

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- ethyreal 14y ago
  they have a "featured" profile here: http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/ http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/ But I agree that requiring Facebook is always a big turn off of many people ( me included )
  - satjot 14y ago
    We should make that featured portfolio a bit more prominent. Thanks for the feedback!
  - alamgir_mand 14y ago
    definitely should put up a screenshot or example of a profile on the homepage. please don't expect me to commit and login with my fb info unless i know exactly what i'm getting
  - randomdrake 14y ago
    Ahh, quite right. I've deleted my comment as I can see that there is a demo of sorts. I don't know how I missed this on the first try. Maybe it should be more prominent. I simply wanted to check out the site and the two biggest things staring me in the face were that I was a developer or a company. Both of these required something I wasn't willing to give up: Facebook login or company details including email. It would still be nice to see some sort of actual demo of the process or how it works without having to provide that kind of information rather than an example portfolio.
  - glimcat 14y ago
    Reasons I didn't sign up for a trial: * Got Faceblocked. * No obvious demo until I looked here. * Demo profile suggests it's iOS-only. * Demo profile has flawed animations.
    - satjot 14y ago
      Will fix all these issues in the next release. Thanks glimcat. Reg faceblocked: we'll let you create a portfolio without auth. To get freelance gigs though, you'll need to either FB auth or Linkedin auth. Reg Demo: redesigning landing page Reg demo profile: will add a few more demo profiles. Reg flawed animations: could you be more specific?
      - gtCameron 14y ago
        Not sure is this is what gp meant, but the cycle of screenshots through the iphone screen slide in and out over the whole screenshot of the phone, not just the screen portion. You should be able to pretty easily play with the positioning and width of the carousel to fix it so they just slide across the screen.
      - glimcat 14y ago
        The animation of the images sliding goes off the sides of the phone's display area. It would be nice if it were a bit slower as well. Sounds good, I'll flag it to check out again later.
ja27 14y ago
It looks like I have to manually enter each app's URL. I like how easy it was to try Kickfolio - just enter app names. http://kickfolio.com/ http://kickfolio.com/
- satjot 14y ago
  Do you know someone there? Would love to chat.
  - danielamitay 14y ago
    They're just querying the app store search API: http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=$APP_NAME http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=$APP... This is the same search API that Apple uses for the App Store, and returns the same order and results as Kickfolio. The first result is usually correct, but you could always double check with the developer. Example: http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=ShareCal http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=Shar...
    - chrisnolet 14y ago
      Nice work! Daniel is pretty much spot on. We run the search term through a regex to see if the user has entered an iTunes URL first (as we accept either search terms or URLs), then we pass the search term to the search API listed above. There is a little magic in sorting the results and a little magic in combining results from the different international stores. We started with that though and it gets great results. There are a couple of (fairly old) Rails gems for it too.
gamzer 14y ago
Interesting idea! Not sure why but I have only read your main headline when I looked at the page for the third time. My attention was completely drawn to anything below that blue-black bar. It has almost camouflage-like properties. In the featured portfolio all tooltip app names are "App Name".
- arank 14y ago
  sorry. fixed the "app name" thing.
dheedene 14y ago
has a really nice light feel to it
philippb 14y ago
I like the idea. When I worked at appbackr we thought about something similar. It would be cool when there is a little more data in the about the performance of the app. I think of it like a dribble for app developers that keeps itself up to date. As we're programmers we don't want to maintain it :) You should talk to my friends from appmonsta. They have a lot of data around apps. Maybe you can work something out.
- satjot 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Can you shoot me an email satjot at tapfame ?
spaghetti 14y ago
Please provide alternatives to fb login. What are other ways to vet someone's identity or prevent outsourcing firms from creating profiles?
- satjot 14y ago
  Linkedin maybe? What if we let developers create portfolios without social identies. Then, if they do want to be notified about freelance gigs they would need to connect their Fb/Linkedin.
  - spaghetti 14y ago
    I definitely prefer Linkedin over Facebook. The multi-stage approach could work. When a developer creates a nice profile it will probably get interest from people seeking freelancers. You can then entice developers to add social identities with something like "123 people were interested in your profile. Verify your identity and contact them today!". I forget how eLance does the identity verification. iirc it was on the thorough side. Perhaps more work than you want to invest now but perhaps worth it later.
    - satjot 14y ago
      noted. thanks!
chomchom 14y ago
I'd like to stick Novoda on it but we are a company of developers rather than an individual: http;//www.novoda.com but I can only sign up as an individual on Facebook.
verganileonardo 14y ago
I dont have a Facebook account. :/
autotravis 14y ago
Am I the only one seeing the "e" cut off of "you've" on the site? : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1634015/photos/tapfame.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1634015/photos/tapfame.png
- satjot 14y ago
  on it.
- satjot 14y ago
  What browser are you using?
ken 14y ago
I'm seeing a pattern here (and this is not a criticism of Tapfame, though I'd love to hear their perspective). There seems to be general agreement that a startup should build something people want. The most common response here (and with similar apps, in recent memory) is people saying they don't want to have to register with another service like Facebook to use it. And yet, people keep building websites that do just that, and indicate that they will not change this. Is Facebook so big that startups can afford to blow off everyone who doesn't use it? Is integrating with Facebook's identity system so much easier than writing your own that it saves significant development time? Is there a strategic plan to do something unique with Facebook later? I'm not saying anyone should do product design by surveying users, and I admit I'm not a great product designer, but when potential users all say "I'm not going to use this product because it makes me jump through hoop X" (and X isn't a fundamental component), my response would be to remove X.
- potatolicious 14y ago
  > "And yet, people keep building websites that do just that, and indicate that they will not change this." IMO there are two salient points to this: 1 - The people who really, really dislike logging in with Facebook (to the point where they will refuse to participate) are a small but vocal minority. Even in the tech industry itself. 2 - The strong dislike for using Facebook login is many-fold. For most people it comes down to abuse of the Facebook link (e.g., spamming things onto your feed, messaging your friends, being in general awful), and that is a trust issue that can be mitigated with the correct positioning and assurances. The people who are against cross-network authentication on principle (as opposed to some negative artifact of its current implementation) are an even smaller camp, and they're the only ones you're really guaranteed to lose out on. > "but when potential users all say "I'm not going to use this product because it makes me jump through hoop X" (and X isn't a fundamental component), my response would be to remove X." 1 - Beware of what your users say, it is not always what they want, or what they would use. People are extraordinarily bad at guessing their own motivations, if you took all feedback literally at face value, you might be screwed. A complaint against X may be actually a complaint against sub-component Y, or the interaction of X with unrelated bit Z. 2 - The benefit here vastly outweighs the objections. The numbers have shown this again, and again, and again, and again, that when given the option to do a one-click signin vs. filling out a form (and giving out your email address, again), people will overwhelmingly choose the former.
vellum 14y ago
You should put up a screenshot on the front page. Also, the demo link just looks like regular text.

40 points by satjot 14y ago

Tapfame is the easiest way to create a portfolio of all the mobile apps you've worked on. Once you create a portfolio you will start receiving freelance gigs that businesses and companies post.

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ethyreal 14y ago
they have a "featured" profile here: http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/ http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/ But I agree that requiring Facebook is always a big turn off of many people ( me included )
- satjot 14y ago
  We should make that featured portfolio a bit more prominent. Thanks for the feedback!
- alamgir_mand 14y ago
  definitely should put up a screenshot or example of a profile on the homepage. please don't expect me to commit and login with my fb info unless i know exactly what i'm getting
- randomdrake 14y ago
  Ahh, quite right. I've deleted my comment as I can see that there is a demo of sorts. I don't know how I missed this on the first try. Maybe it should be more prominent. I simply wanted to check out the site and the two biggest things staring me in the face were that I was a developer or a company. Both of these required something I wasn't willing to give up: Facebook login or company details including email. It would still be nice to see some sort of actual demo of the process or how it works without having to provide that kind of information rather than an example portfolio.
- glimcat 14y ago
  Reasons I didn't sign up for a trial: * Got Faceblocked. * No obvious demo until I looked here. * Demo profile suggests it's iOS-only. * Demo profile has flawed animations.
  - satjot 14y ago
    Will fix all these issues in the next release. Thanks glimcat. Reg faceblocked: we'll let you create a portfolio without auth. To get freelance gigs though, you'll need to either FB auth or Linkedin auth. Reg Demo: redesigning landing page Reg demo profile: will add a few more demo profiles. Reg flawed animations: could you be more specific?
    - gtCameron 14y ago
      Not sure is this is what gp meant, but the cycle of screenshots through the iphone screen slide in and out over the whole screenshot of the phone, not just the screen portion. You should be able to pretty easily play with the positioning and width of the carousel to fix it so they just slide across the screen.
    - glimcat 14y ago
      The animation of the images sliding goes off the sides of the phone's display area. It would be nice if it were a bit slower as well. Sounds good, I'll flag it to check out again later.

ja27 14y ago

It looks like I have to manually enter each app's URL. I like how easy it was to try Kickfolio - just enter app names. http://kickfolio.com/ http://kickfolio.com/

satjot 14y ago
Do you know someone there? Would love to chat.
- danielamitay 14y ago
  They're just querying the app store search API: http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=$APP_NAME http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=$APP... This is the same search API that Apple uses for the App Store, and returns the same order and results as Kickfolio. The first result is usually correct, but you could always double check with the developer. Example: http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=ShareCal http://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=software&term=Shar...
  - chrisnolet 14y ago
    Nice work! Daniel is pretty much spot on. We run the search term through a regex to see if the user has entered an iTunes URL first (as we accept either search terms or URLs), then we pass the search term to the search API listed above. There is a little magic in sorting the results and a little magic in combining results from the different international stores. We started with that though and it gets great results. There are a couple of (fairly old) Rails gems for it too.

gamzer 14y ago

Interesting idea! Not sure why but I have only read your main headline when I looked at the page for the third time. My attention was completely drawn to anything below that blue-black bar. It has almost camouflage-like properties. In the featured portfolio all tooltip app names are "App Name".

arank 14y ago
sorry. fixed the "app name" thing.

dheedene 14y ago

has a really nice light feel to it

philippb 14y ago

I like the idea. When I worked at appbackr we thought about something similar. It would be cool when there is a little more data in the about the performance of the app. I think of it like a dribble for app developers that keeps itself up to date. As we're programmers we don't want to maintain it :) You should talk to my friends from appmonsta. They have a lot of data around apps. Maybe you can work something out.

satjot 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Can you shoot me an email satjot at tapfame ?

spaghetti 14y ago

Please provide alternatives to fb login. What are other ways to vet someone's identity or prevent outsourcing firms from creating profiles?

satjot 14y ago
Linkedin maybe? What if we let developers create portfolios without social identies. Then, if they do want to be notified about freelance gigs they would need to connect their Fb/Linkedin.
- spaghetti 14y ago
  I definitely prefer Linkedin over Facebook. The multi-stage approach could work. When a developer creates a nice profile it will probably get interest from people seeking freelancers. You can then entice developers to add social identities with something like "123 people were interested in your profile. Verify your identity and contact them today!". I forget how eLance does the identity verification. iirc it was on the thorough side. Perhaps more work than you want to invest now but perhaps worth it later.
  - satjot 14y ago
    noted. thanks!

chomchom 14y ago

I'd like to stick Novoda on it but we are a company of developers rather than an individual: http;//www.novoda.com but I can only sign up as an individual on Facebook.

verganileonardo 14y ago

I dont have a Facebook account. :/

autotravis 14y ago

Am I the only one seeing the "e" cut off of "you've" on the site? : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1634015/photos/tapfame.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1634015/photos/tapfame.png

satjot 14y ago
on it.
satjot 14y ago
What browser are you using?

ken 14y ago

I'm seeing a pattern here (and this is not a criticism of Tapfame, though I'd love to hear their perspective). There seems to be general agreement that a startup should build something people want. The most common response here (and with similar apps, in recent memory) is people saying they don't want to have to register with another service like Facebook to use it. And yet, people keep building websites that do just that, and indicate that they will not change this. Is Facebook so big that startups can afford to blow off everyone who doesn't use it? Is integrating with Facebook's identity system so much easier than writing your own that it saves significant development time? Is there a strategic plan to do something unique with Facebook later? I'm not saying anyone should do product design by surveying users, and I admit I'm not a great product designer, but when potential users all say "I'm not going to use this product because it makes me jump through hoop X" (and X isn't a fundamental component), my response would be to remove X.

potatolicious 14y ago
> "And yet, people keep building websites that do just that, and indicate that they will not change this." IMO there are two salient points to this: 1 - The people who really, really dislike logging in with Facebook (to the point where they will refuse to participate) are a small but vocal minority. Even in the tech industry itself. 2 - The strong dislike for using Facebook login is many-fold. For most people it comes down to abuse of the Facebook link (e.g., spamming things onto your feed, messaging your friends, being in general awful), and that is a trust issue that can be mitigated with the correct positioning and assurances. The people who are against cross-network authentication on principle (as opposed to some negative artifact of its current implementation) are an even smaller camp, and they're the only ones you're really guaranteed to lose out on. > "but when potential users all say "I'm not going to use this product because it makes me jump through hoop X" (and X isn't a fundamental component), my response would be to remove X." 1 - Beware of what your users say, it is not always what they want, or what they would use. People are extraordinarily bad at guessing their own motivations, if you took all feedback literally at face value, you might be screwed. A complaint against X may be actually a complaint against sub-component Y, or the interaction of X with unrelated bit Z. 2 - The benefit here vastly outweighs the objections. The numbers have shown this again, and again, and again, and again, that when given the option to do a one-click signin vs. filling out a form (and giving out your email address, again), people will overwhelmingly choose the former.

vellum 14y ago

You should put up a screenshot on the front page. Also, the demo link just looks like regular text.