3 ms·

Show HN: Dicely, a webapp to make decisions on where to eat

2 points by dicely 14y ago

dicely 14y ago
Looking for what people think and any helpful feedback. Just made by a bunch of us who got tired of asking the question and only getting lists of choices thrown back at us instead of decisions. Thanks!
- digisth 14y ago
  Attractive look. First problem: I typed my ZIP (10002) and pressed enter, not expecting a location autocomplete, and received the "location cannot be found error." Consider either doing the lookup on enter press or refusing to submit before a lookup is complete. Edit: options need a price level search, a la Yelp/Menupages. Edit 2: the "dice" need a visual indicator (slide in arrow or such) that they can be used again for another suggestion.
  - dicely 14y ago
    Thanks digisth. Which browser are you on? Usually most modern browsers utilize the html5 geolocation API. The zip code entry shows after a location cannot be found (which means automagically using the browser, probably should make that clearer) so you should have been able to submit the zip code just fine. Curious what browser you're using though. As for price search, although we can do it, sadly not many of our APIs (aggregation of Yelp, Foursquare, Factual, Google, and Citygrid) expose price information when searching around a lat/lon point (they're available on expensive detail calls which we can't do). We could expose it but it would cut the population down to a few dozen from near 100 or so restaurants, which may not be a bad idea. Thanks again! Edit: the roll button (middle of page) can be used to advance or the Dicely logo. But yes, a clear tooltip can and will be thrown on there. Thanks for the tip.
    - digisth 14y ago
      Tried it with Firefox 15 and Chrome 22 on Win64 Vista. It's a race condition. First, deny location tracking then type a ZIP code very quickly and hit enter. You get "Invalid manual location entered, please input your current location above to find yourself some food." If you type it in and wait, it works fine. if (!isEmpty(cur_locality)) is returning false after enter press sometimes. Enter is not triggering the autocomplete functionality every time.
      - dicely 14y ago
        Ah! I see it now. Will take care of this and push it soon. Thanks digisth. I am trying to figure out how to give you an upvote. I clicked the triangle but it doesn't show you having a point. HN newb here so would love to be enlightened.

2 points by dicely 14y ago

Looking for what people think and any helpful feedback. Just made by a bunch of us who got tired of asking the question and only getting lists of choices thrown back at us instead of decisions. Thanks!

digisth 14y ago
Attractive look. First problem: I typed my ZIP (10002) and pressed enter, not expecting a location autocomplete, and received the "location cannot be found error." Consider either doing the lookup on enter press or refusing to submit before a lookup is complete. Edit: options need a price level search, a la Yelp/Menupages. Edit 2: the "dice" need a visual indicator (slide in arrow or such) that they can be used again for another suggestion.
- dicely 14y ago
  Thanks digisth. Which browser are you on? Usually most modern browsers utilize the html5 geolocation API. The zip code entry shows after a location cannot be found (which means automagically using the browser, probably should make that clearer) so you should have been able to submit the zip code just fine. Curious what browser you're using though. As for price search, although we can do it, sadly not many of our APIs (aggregation of Yelp, Foursquare, Factual, Google, and Citygrid) expose price information when searching around a lat/lon point (they're available on expensive detail calls which we can't do). We could expose it but it would cut the population down to a few dozen from near 100 or so restaurants, which may not be a bad idea. Thanks again! Edit: the roll button (middle of page) can be used to advance or the Dicely logo. But yes, a clear tooltip can and will be thrown on there. Thanks for the tip.
  - digisth 14y ago
    Tried it with Firefox 15 and Chrome 22 on Win64 Vista. It's a race condition. First, deny location tracking then type a ZIP code very quickly and hit enter. You get "Invalid manual location entered, please input your current location above to find yourself some food." If you type it in and wait, it works fine. if (!isEmpty(cur_locality)) is returning false after enter press sometimes. Enter is not triggering the autocomplete functionality every time.
    - dicely 14y ago
      Ah! I see it now. Will take care of this and push it soon. Thanks digisth. I am trying to figure out how to give you an upvote. I clicked the triangle but it doesn't show you having a point. HN newb here so would love to be enlightened.