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Ask HN: Please Re-Review My Webapp

Site: http://www.celebsutra.com Previous Review: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803 New since last review: Top celebs by twitter activity and followers, Pictures shared by celebs are easily browseable and I think the celeb list was revamped after the previous review. About: Celebsutra aggregates tweets by celebrities. This a side project I was working on for fun Design is by a friend of mine: http://sandosh.info/v2/pages/home/ Thanks in advance for spending your time on reviewing the site. :)

boundlessdreamz 17y ago
Clickable links http://www.celebsutra.com http://www.celebsutra.com http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803 The image browser can become popular is my hunch. http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures
- icey 17y ago
  In my opinion the picture browser should be your homepage with a twitter stream running off in one column. Then people could click in to the twitter streams they were interested in. This is just a guess of course, but I've always felt like people like pictures over text, especially when it comes to celebrities. (For the record, I am almost assuredly not your target market; I have no idea who most of these people are with the exception of the politicians.)
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    Was thinking along the same lines. As you said pictures seem to be far more popular.
    - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
      I have made photos as the main feature of the site now.
- prawn 17y ago
  (Not your target market, but I'm sure with some work your site could be interesting to some.) 1. As someone has already said, feature the photos more strongly in your layout. Otherwise what you've put up is a little too like Twitter Lists, right? 2. Maybe make their name and photo larger (even if it means using a stronger photo that isn't their current avatar). 3. Upgrade the design - it's pretty bland and not very "celeb". Needs to be brighter and bolder. 4. You'll want to have more countries represented before plugging it to the public - I'm sure you could do a country per evening for a couple of weeks, just find a list of movie and sports stars, track them down online and get them into your database.
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    1: Yeah. Will be doing so 2: In the photo view or the tweets view ?
    - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
      I have made photos as the main feature of the site now.
    - prawn 17y ago
      Tweets view. For celeb lovers, I imagine a big part of it is the vibrant looks and identities and small avatars might not really cut it. Maybe just use a larger version of their avatar because custom-creating your own adds more work you don't want to be doing.
delano 17y ago
Interesting. It would be more useful for me if it displayed only a subset of messages from any one account. Some accounts are very active (e.g. Martha Stewart: http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate ). I'd like to be able to get a sense of what's happening from a single page. What is your target audience by the way?
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  If you register you can choose the celebs you want to see. Target audience is anyone interested in following celebrity news. Readers of tmz.com etc.
joez 17y ago
Can you have a view that shows the last tweet of each celebrity you want to see? This might be a good alternative to getting spammed by one prolific celebrity (or one who is paying someone to twitter for them). This might go against the real time grain though... maybe use AJAX and sort the a celebrity who just tweeted to the top? Also, reach out to some celebrities and see if you can get them to tweet you. I know some maybe receptive if this will help them get more users. I.e. if you know that users who followed Martha also likely followed Newt Gingrich, you could build a suggestion engine. (you maybe able to scrape twitter for this data?) Hopefully this feedback was of nonzero value. Unfortunately, I don't think HN is the same demographic as the one you are targeting :) Edit: Oh I just had an interesting idea. When people sign up for your service, give them an opt-in to also follow celebsutra. Whenever someone follows a celeb through celebsutra, you RT their action. (@biggestcelebfan just follow @bigceleb through @celebsutra) This could be a kind of discover engine for people to find people with the same interest. I know it's a little spammy, make it an easy opt out but it could easily create a viral loop.
mailarchis 17y ago
1. I guess you might wanna test with putting fewer pics on home page but of higher resolution if possible. It can be two rows with a simple right/left arrows that pull in more pics without requiring the page to refresh. 2. For login you can use Twitter's OAuth

boundlessdreamz 17y ago

Clickable links http://www.celebsutra.com http://www.celebsutra.com http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803 The image browser can become popular is my hunch. http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures

icey 17y ago
In my opinion the picture browser should be your homepage with a twitter stream running off in one column. Then people could click in to the twitter streams they were interested in. This is just a guess of course, but I've always felt like people like pictures over text, especially when it comes to celebrities. (For the record, I am almost assuredly not your target market; I have no idea who most of these people are with the exception of the politicians.)
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  Was thinking along the same lines. As you said pictures seem to be far more popular.
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    I have made photos as the main feature of the site now.
prawn 17y ago
(Not your target market, but I'm sure with some work your site could be interesting to some.) 1. As someone has already said, feature the photos more strongly in your layout. Otherwise what you've put up is a little too like Twitter Lists, right? 2. Maybe make their name and photo larger (even if it means using a stronger photo that isn't their current avatar). 3. Upgrade the design - it's pretty bland and not very "celeb". Needs to be brighter and bolder. 4. You'll want to have more countries represented before plugging it to the public - I'm sure you could do a country per evening for a couple of weeks, just find a list of movie and sports stars, track them down online and get them into your database.
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  1: Yeah. Will be doing so 2: In the photo view or the tweets view ?
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    I have made photos as the main feature of the site now.
  - prawn 17y ago
    Tweets view. For celeb lovers, I imagine a big part of it is the vibrant looks and identities and small avatars might not really cut it. Maybe just use a larger version of their avatar because custom-creating your own adds more work you don't want to be doing.

delano 17y ago

Interesting. It would be more useful for me if it displayed only a subset of messages from any one account. Some accounts are very active (e.g. Martha Stewart: http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate ). I'd like to be able to get a sense of what's happening from a single page. What is your target audience by the way?

boundlessdreamz 17y ago
If you register you can choose the celebs you want to see. Target audience is anyone interested in following celebrity news. Readers of tmz.com etc.

joez 17y ago

Can you have a view that shows the last tweet of each celebrity you want to see? This might be a good alternative to getting spammed by one prolific celebrity (or one who is paying someone to twitter for them). This might go against the real time grain though... maybe use AJAX and sort the a celebrity who just tweeted to the top? Also, reach out to some celebrities and see if you can get them to tweet you. I know some maybe receptive if this will help them get more users. I.e. if you know that users who followed Martha also likely followed Newt Gingrich, you could build a suggestion engine. (you maybe able to scrape twitter for this data?) Hopefully this feedback was of nonzero value. Unfortunately, I don't think HN is the same demographic as the one you are targeting :) Edit: Oh I just had an interesting idea. When people sign up for your service, give them an opt-in to also follow celebsutra. Whenever someone follows a celeb through celebsutra, you RT their action. (@biggestcelebfan just follow @bigceleb through @celebsutra) This could be a kind of discover engine for people to find people with the same interest. I know it's a little spammy, make it an easy opt out but it could easily create a viral loop.

mailarchis 17y ago

1. I guess you might wanna test with putting fewer pics on home page but of higher resolution if possible. It can be two rows with a simple right/left arrows that pull in more pics without requiring the page to refresh. 2. For login you can use Twitter's OAuth