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Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

22 points by drdoctrine 14y ago

DGCA 14y ago
In the assessment, 'help' and 'next' should be farther apart, different colors, maybe in different places, and definitely bigger. EDIT: And I get really turned off when I have to spam my friends with requests, so thanks for giving me the option not to. EDIT2: This assessment is painfully long.
xmpir 14y ago
I wonder if the companies that "match" me know about their participation in the project...
josephpmay 14y ago
Looks great! A couple of things: 1) The blue background in the "They are already in" section of the website is flickering on my laptop (13" non-retina MPB). 2) Why do you need so much information from my Facebook login? I understand Email and profile information, but why photos, status updates, and friends' profile information?
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.
Mindphreaker 14y ago
I really like the look and feel of your frontpage! The "retina ready" badge on the right side made me chuckle.. ^^
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magicmarkker 14y ago
Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.
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  - magicmarkker 14y ago
    Guess it should be clear that it works only for places other than United States
- magicmarkker 14y ago
  Also there is no way to delete my account.
  - drdoctrine 14y ago
    We are still working on that, we will defenetely impelement this in the near future. You will receive a newsletter when it's ready! If you can't wait shoot us a mail to account@mercurypuzzle.com that you want your account to be removed.
- xmpir 14y ago
  for me it works - even though it is very slow...
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: birke@mercurypuzzle.com
- codegeek 14y ago
  agreed. I tried searching New York but i get some town "New owen" ? in Kentucky.
AndreasLuckey 14y ago
awesome page! I'm sure it is going to make an impact on the online job-application process! What do you guys say?
klapinat0r 14y ago
Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same. > <label class="radio"> > <input value="342" name="answer" type="radio"> > </label> While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent. There are no javascript errors.
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?
  - klapinat0r 14y ago
    It does work (also text on the front page when choosing field of interest). I had no idea I was not on english, and I hadn't chosen Dutch - I'm not in Netherlands. I can not reset my answer though. If I choose "Back to start" followed by "Back to frontpage" and start over, I'm at step 3/7 again. Not sure if it's related, but I see the (otherwise great) introduction/tour every time I restart. Also, I can start matching without choosing a field of interest. I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just writing down what I know in case it can help you solve it (or confirm that it only happens to me). Trying on Chrome on Mac does work, but also has the "stuck at step 3/7" problem. Firefox on Mac does work.
    - klapinat0r 14y ago
      Only way I can reset it seems to be to delete all cookies. Liking the questions, short and to the point. Great design and feel :)
      - drdoctrine 14y ago
        Thank you very much! We'll look into that!
xmpir 14y ago
the adress for google is a small sales office in vienna. the adress for microsoft is the headquarters in redmond. however those are my best-matching companies - sounds legit.
nicvee 14y ago
Great job guys! I really like the layout and the clear structure of the submenus. I´m curious if you come out on top!
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  Thank you very much! This means a lot to us! Hehe we thought about that, but we are not participating in the company matching.. ;)
alexjeffrey 14y ago
I was enthralled until you asked me to create an account - I have so many accounts online that I really don't want to have to remember yet another password (or compromise my security by reusing one). Is forcing account creation key to the core functionality? Also, I'd be wary of signing up with Facebook for a job-search app - while I'm not actually looking for a new job, if I were that'd put me off in case you posted a notification to my wall.
- xmpir 14y ago
  you could use the facebook sign-up...
  - alexjeffrey 14y ago
    read the second paragraph, I edited it in shortly after posting
    - xmpir 14y ago
      sorry - i shot too fast ;). i agree - facebook is not the ideal job application profile...
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! The overall goal of the platform is to connect talents with interesting companies. Especially for huge companies it is often hard to find suitable candidates. If you wouldn't register they couldn't reach out to you at a later point. You are right about facebook! That's exactly why we choose to implemenent the mannual signup option without facebook. But we do respect the privacy of our users very much! We never post on any walls or something. In our the privacy settings you can furthermore control the visibility of every single field on your profile.
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mabid 14y ago
seems to be down at the moment I am getting Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.
martin-adams 14y ago
Nice UI, but you lost my focus after filling out the initial questions with the: "I have read the terms and conditions of membership and the privacy policy and agree with the content." I clicked on one of the embedded links, such as the terms and I lost the page I was looking at. Pressing back then reset everything. However, if I click the logo it looks like its restored. I'd say open in new window or have a dialog.
- martin-adams 14y ago
  Also, why do you need a date of birth?
  - xmpir 14y ago
    i guess this is an important criteria for recruiters/companies
    - masto 14y ago
      An illegal one, in many (most?) places.
      - xmpir 14y ago
        Really, I did not know that. I think at least it is a useful one, as it highly corellates with a person's experience.
      - jsherer 14y ago
        In the U.S. definitely. Check out The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
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PebblesRox 14y ago
I'm able to choose my location once I type it in, but when I click it just goes back to the loading... message. I can't get it to load and it won't let me continue otherwise.
- PebblesRox 14y ago
  Oh, I just noticed that it was listed a second time in the drop-down and when I choose the lower one it worked. Yay, now I get to explore the website!
visavis 14y ago
still skeptical, but looking forward to this. Like the functionality n design. Could ease a lot of things for me...keep on going guys
PebblesRox 14y ago
I imported data from facebook but the button still says skip. I think it's done but I can't tell. I'll push the skip button but hopefully it doesn't actually skip anything.
ubersoldat2k7 14y ago
Nice UI. What does those button at the landing page mean? I was there expecting for a hint to come up from any of the buttons. Then, for some reason, I didn't get what I think were questions since after the "tutorial" (really nice) that part was all white with only the radio buttons.
- xmpir 14y ago
  seems you're having the same problem as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5456874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5456874
allsystemsgo 14y ago
I'd be interested if this site showed me how to get to a dream job. I'm by no means ready for my dream job, and I'm taking what I think are the correct steps to get to that dream job, but I'm not sure...
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"
teoryn 14y ago
In level 9 rank (among contacts and global) is shown, but percentile would be more interesting.

22 points by drdoctrine 14y ago

DGCA 14y ago

In the assessment, 'help' and 'next' should be farther apart, different colors, maybe in different places, and definitely bigger. EDIT: And I get really turned off when I have to spam my friends with requests, so thanks for giving me the option not to. EDIT2: This assessment is painfully long.

xmpir 14y ago

I wonder if the companies that "match" me know about their participation in the project...

josephpmay 14y ago

Looks great! A couple of things: 1) The blue background in the "They are already in" section of the website is flickering on my laptop (13" non-retina MPB). 2) Why do you need so much information from my Facebook login? I understand Email and profile information, but why photos, status updates, and friends' profile information?

drdoctrine 14y ago
We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.

Mindphreaker 14y ago

I really like the look and feel of your frontpage! The "retina ready" badge on the right side made me chuckle.. ^^

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magicmarkker 14y ago

Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.

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- magicmarkker 14y ago
  Guess it should be clear that it works only for places other than United States
magicmarkker 14y ago
Also there is no way to delete my account.
- drdoctrine 14y ago
  We are still working on that, we will defenetely impelement this in the near future. You will receive a newsletter when it's ready! If you can't wait shoot us a mail to account@mercurypuzzle.com that you want your account to be removed.
xmpir 14y ago
for me it works - even though it is very slow...
drdoctrine 14y ago
The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: birke@mercurypuzzle.com
codegeek 14y ago
agreed. I tried searching New York but i get some town "New owen" ? in Kentucky.

AndreasLuckey 14y ago

awesome page! I'm sure it is going to make an impact on the online job-application process! What do you guys say?

klapinat0r 14y ago

Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same. > <label class="radio"> > <input value="342" name="answer" type="radio"> > </label> While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent. There are no javascript errors.

drdoctrine 14y ago
Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?
- klapinat0r 14y ago
  It does work (also text on the front page when choosing field of interest). I had no idea I was not on english, and I hadn't chosen Dutch - I'm not in Netherlands. I can not reset my answer though. If I choose "Back to start" followed by "Back to frontpage" and start over, I'm at step 3/7 again. Not sure if it's related, but I see the (otherwise great) introduction/tour every time I restart. Also, I can start matching without choosing a field of interest. I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just writing down what I know in case it can help you solve it (or confirm that it only happens to me). Trying on Chrome on Mac does work, but also has the "stuck at step 3/7" problem. Firefox on Mac does work.
  - klapinat0r 14y ago
    Only way I can reset it seems to be to delete all cookies. Liking the questions, short and to the point. Great design and feel :)
    - drdoctrine 14y ago
      Thank you very much! We'll look into that!

xmpir 14y ago

the adress for google is a small sales office in vienna. the adress for microsoft is the headquarters in redmond. however those are my best-matching companies - sounds legit.

nicvee 14y ago

Great job guys! I really like the layout and the clear structure of the submenus. I´m curious if you come out on top!

drdoctrine 14y ago
Thank you very much! This means a lot to us! Hehe we thought about that, but we are not participating in the company matching.. ;)

alexjeffrey 14y ago

I was enthralled until you asked me to create an account - I have so many accounts online that I really don't want to have to remember yet another password (or compromise my security by reusing one). Is forcing account creation key to the core functionality? Also, I'd be wary of signing up with Facebook for a job-search app - while I'm not actually looking for a new job, if I were that'd put me off in case you posted a notification to my wall.

xmpir 14y ago
you could use the facebook sign-up...
- alexjeffrey 14y ago
  read the second paragraph, I edited it in shortly after posting
  - xmpir 14y ago
    sorry - i shot too fast ;). i agree - facebook is not the ideal job application profile...
drdoctrine 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The overall goal of the platform is to connect talents with interesting companies. Especially for huge companies it is often hard to find suitable candidates. If you wouldn't register they couldn't reach out to you at a later point. You are right about facebook! That's exactly why we choose to implemenent the mannual signup option without facebook. But we do respect the privacy of our users very much! We never post on any walls or something. In our the privacy settings you can furthermore control the visibility of every single field on your profile.
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- alexjeffrey 14y ago

mabid 14y ago

seems to be down at the moment I am getting Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.

martin-adams 14y ago

Nice UI, but you lost my focus after filling out the initial questions with the: "I have read the terms and conditions of membership and the privacy policy and agree with the content." I clicked on one of the embedded links, such as the terms and I lost the page I was looking at. Pressing back then reset everything. However, if I click the logo it looks like its restored. I'd say open in new window or have a dialog.

martin-adams 14y ago
Also, why do you need a date of birth?
- xmpir 14y ago
  i guess this is an important criteria for recruiters/companies
  - masto 14y ago
    An illegal one, in many (most?) places.
    - xmpir 14y ago
      Really, I did not know that. I think at least it is a useful one, as it highly corellates with a person's experience.
    - jsherer 14y ago
      In the U.S. definitely. Check out The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
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PebblesRox 14y ago

I'm able to choose my location once I type it in, but when I click it just goes back to the loading... message. I can't get it to load and it won't let me continue otherwise.

PebblesRox 14y ago
Oh, I just noticed that it was listed a second time in the drop-down and when I choose the lower one it worked. Yay, now I get to explore the website!

visavis 14y ago

still skeptical, but looking forward to this. Like the functionality n design. Could ease a lot of things for me...keep on going guys

PebblesRox 14y ago

I imported data from facebook but the button still says skip. I think it's done but I can't tell. I'll push the skip button but hopefully it doesn't actually skip anything.

ubersoldat2k7 14y ago

Nice UI. What does those button at the landing page mean? I was there expecting for a hint to come up from any of the buttons. Then, for some reason, I didn't get what I think were questions since after the "tutorial" (really nice) that part was all white with only the radio buttons.

xmpir 14y ago
seems you're having the same problem as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5456874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5456874

allsystemsgo 14y ago

I'd be interested if this site showed me how to get to a dream job. I'm by no means ready for my dream job, and I'm taking what I think are the correct steps to get to that dream job, but I'm not sure...

drdoctrine 14y ago
The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"

teoryn 14y ago

In level 9 rank (among contacts and global) is shown, but percentile would be more interesting.