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Ask HN: Please Review My Webapp
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThis a side project I was working on for fun. If the site takes off I plan to aggregate the highest commented/liked tweets and celebrities. Beyond that I don't have any plans. Design is by a friend of mine: http://sandosh.info/v2/pages/home/ http://sandosh.info/v2/pages/home/ Thanks in advance for spending your time on reviewing the site. :)
- ujjwalg 17y agoI am not sure who is your target market. It doesn't mentions anywhere what is the purpose of creating a login, either. However, I have a suggestion which might make it appeal to a broader audience. When a user creates a login, you can provide a list of celebrities of each category. The user can pick the ones he/she wants to read the tweets from for each category. Maybe adding an option of receiving daily email/rss feed be useful. Also, being able to add all the checked celebrities into the twitter account be also useful.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThe functionality you just outlined exists already. If you create an account, you can pick the celebrities. The target audience is broad.Someone interested in tweets by celebs but does not want to either * create a twitter account and add celebs one by one * or feel like reading the celeb tweets only sometimes and does not want to pollute the twitter stream with non-stop celeb tweets.
- moe 17y agoI'm not sure if this is a bug but the tabs (All, Movie/TV etc.) are all empty for me. The design looks appealing at a glance (nice colors) but I have absolutely no idea what the service does and why I should register. From the blurb on the right I can guess that you're somehow tracking celebrities. But I still don't know what advantage that gives me over just following them myself? Oh, just noticed, when I select a country on the right then tweets start showing up. Well, again, I like the design, but wonder why I should sign up instead of just following those celebs myself? And what would signing up give me over what I already see right now?
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThe service tracks celebrity tweets. Signing up allows you to pick the celebrities instead of seeing everyone. I have outlined the target audience here he target audience is broad.Someone interested in tweets by celebs but does not want to either * create a twitter account and add celebs one by one * or feel like reading the celeb tweets only sometimes and does not want to pollute the twitter stream with non-stop celeb tweets.
- DanHulton 17y agoYou should have United States celebrities auto-selected. Or at least someone. Because showing up to blank screens with a non-intuitive way of turning it on is just no good.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoIt is a bug. Will fix it.
- petesalty 17y agoThe ability to pick your celebrities once you register was not obvious and something that I thought the site needed. I'd make sure this was front and center as an incentive to register. Having said that, why make people register to select their celebrities? If there's not a good reason then drop an id as a cookie and track their choices that way. I was not going to register, but had I been able to select the celebs right from the get go I probably would have done that then returned.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoI had thought about that but since the target audience is non-tech people, they might get very pissed/confused when their selections are no longer applicable when they return to the site because the cookie got deleted.
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- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoLogin w/ twitter account maybe, instead of a full-fledged signup?
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoYeah. But my target audience also include people who don't want to sign up for twitter but may want to read celebrity tweets. I'm still not sure if having a full fledged signup is good. But this is why I did it.
- _Lemon_ 17y agoWhy would people who don't want to register for Twitter register for your website? (a genuine question you need to ask yourself)
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoBecause in twitter, you have to find and follow the celebrities yourself.
- NEPatriot 17y agoSimple concept. Good execution. I would think about adding in a blurb at the top summing up what you do. Then follow that up with a sentence about why somebody should sign up - the benefits of being able to pick and choose celebs.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThanks. It seems "Why register" is the common question. I was thinking of adding a blurb to point out the benefits.
- fjabre 17y agoWell it's not something I would use but it is a pretty cool idea. I can see something like this really being popular, especially in LA and amongst the perezhilton.com crowd.. In fact you should try to get him to blog about your site. =) Best of luck..
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThanks. That crowd is part of the target audience.
- alttab 17y agoAfter reading the discussion (all 14 comments that exist right now), it seems that people have given you plenty to think about. It looks like you wanted to make a web app that was simple, interesting, and attainable. For that, I give you an A+. Using the Twitter API is good practice because its extremely popular. That said - the added value of something like this is probably minuscule in comparison to the effort it took to make it - especially nice and polished like it is. In any case, I bet you have a list of things you learned, plus a working demo on the web of your capabilities. Kudos!
- reynolds 17y agoYou might want to look into this: I just "liked" the same entry 10 times.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoActually it is intentional :). There were two reasons 1. If someone was that interested in liking an entry, there is no harm done as of now, as there is no ranking as of yet. 2. Evil idea: If someone likes an entry multiple times, it gives an impression of more users :). Reddit apparently started out like this. The founders had multiple accounts and posted stories under various accounts to show activity.