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I love dating sites! In general: Very nice UI! You bill this as a "dating site," but it seems more like Hot-or-Not. If you want it to be a dating site, you'll
by psyklic 18y ago
I love dating sites!
In general: Very nice UI! You bill this as a "dating site," but it seems more like Hot-or-Not. If you want it to be a dating site, you'll need to add location, and try to match closer people first. I also think that you should add things like age and only match people similarly.
+ I'm not sure whether your business model will work well ($2.99 for unlimited chatting with someone). I've tried a number of sites, and the chances of a particular person working out is not good -- plus, a lot of people just won't reply after I contact them. More importantly, I'll need to know if someone is CLOSE to me to determine if I'll pay you. Also, your site falls into one of those that I'm distasteful of -- I sign up for the site, and then LATER, I find out there are hidden fees when they aren't initially mentioned.
+ I also feel like there's nothing to "do" on your site. You should have a page where I can see how many people have seen my picture, how many voted yes/no, maybe even to whom they voted yes/no on -- that would be interesting yet not too invasive.
+ Make it clear that the more I vote, the more my picture will be seen -- in other words, if I rate x people, I need to see a noticable increase in the number of people seeing MY picture. This works very well for Facebook apps like Compare People.
+ You may want to approve pictures before they're published. I already saw one in the queue that is non-human, and you could also get pornographic ones.
+ This would be a cool facebook app. Although apps are less prominent nowadays, here's how some current successful ones work -- periodically send me an email about x people voting me as a match or not. Provide a link to your facebook app page in the email that immediately asks me to rate people (more ratings, more views), and a side link to see my stats. This works on me at least!
+ When I first open the page, the larger upper box looked to me like a popup flash ad, and i totally didn't realize that the items on the right were clickable until i accidentally ran my cursor over them.
+ When entering my profile, if I sporadically decide to change my pic midway through, the form forgets everything I entered so far. And maybe the tab order should be both things I like, then things I dislike.
+ I'm not sure what "Loading...please vote to enable this user's queue" means. You should provide a countdown if it matters whether I vote.
+ I also agree with other posters -- "yumbunny" doesn't sound like a dating site haha
- thorax 18y agoThese are some great comments. Thanks so much for your time/review/thoughts. The site is more of an introduction/matchmaking site. I only billed it as a "dating" site in the link I submitted to HNYC because that's kind of the niche it fits in. Business model: We're testing this out initially to see how it goes. We will be adding location/nearness, but that's not used initially until we reach a critical mass. We definitely weren't trying to hide our messaging costs-- we just didn't want to dissuade people who are just curious from at least getting on the site and seeing matches. I don't want people to get confused and think it costs any money whatsoever to use/match/vote with our site or widgets. We'll keep that impression in mind and do our best to find a better middleground. Moderation: I 100% agree. We're definitely going to be moderating these pictures before inclusion (a day or two after launch). If you saw a nonhuman it was one of our left-over test images-- we have to track that one down. Sorry about that and thanks for mentioning it. Facebook: The entire backend is designed to work well as MySpace/Facebook/iPhone apps-- so that's soon on the radar. We wanted to start with the core site and build from there. On opening the page: We saw that a bit in user testing, too-- so we added the "arrow" and some initial flash animation to encourage clicking. We'll be watching how people handle this and adapting-- thanks for mentioning. Your other points I absolutely agree with, too-- we'll work on those. Thanks again!
- psyklic 18y agoI didn't realize I was receiving an activation email, but after I got it I realized you do have Matches/Messages/Share/etc. Perhaps you should make these pages available even before people activate, but mention that they'll have to activate before they become, well, active. Great job so far!