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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, the matchmaker problem we're attacking this way: * Coming soon, stats/points/levels for matchmakers. * Users ask their friends to matchmaker for them specifically, and we interleave other matches once in a while to spread out the love
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by thorax 18y ago
These 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
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by thorax 18y ago
Great feedback-- we can definitely do that. We went with the more superficial approach to catch people's attention initially and try to raise some eyebrows. I do think I would also prefer to date on a website not exactly termed this way, to
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by thorax 18y ago
We want rapid clicking to be fast. Abuse isn't going to be super common because people are going to be bored. Also "No" doesn't count against anything in our matching algorithm. It's basically just not recommending them for a match. Spammin
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by thorax 18y ago
There are lots of fun problems in this-- our matching algorithm at the moment is not super complex. Once we have more feedback/data, we will constantly tweak, but the starting plan is to make more successful matchmakers weighed slightly hig
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by thorax 18y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. :) We've done lots of user testing so far and get different impressions. The front page image will definitely change and be A/B tested to death once we launch-- it's just what we've got so far. Note that we're
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by thorax 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback so quickly! Regarding looks: Sure, looks are superficial ways to recommend matches, but that's just to get the conversation started (as it is on every dating website, pretty much ever). There's also a key here that y
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by thorax 18y ago
We're finishing up the last few key bugs that we've uncovered over the weekend and wanted to get your input before we start publicizing it. What do you think? Like/dislike? Thanks, as always.
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Ask HN: Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget(yumbunny.com)
21 points by thorax 18y ago|31 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, not what he meant in context, I bet, but the question certainly isn't meaningless when the context is collectibles: http://ri.ms/ebay_denarius
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by thorax 18y ago
Maybe this (or a worse) attacker would have killed him or knocked him out or something so he could better pose as them once he had the badge. Hard to say.
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by thorax 18y ago
They can say they had a cool date on Valentine's day.
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by thorax 18y ago
Nice work! This goes very well with some of our company's long-term goals of making things easier for techies (e.g. http://bug.gd and http://featurelist.org ) If you're interested in talking about partnership opportunities (at a minimum
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by thorax 18y ago
I would be happy to pay (much more even), but I don't think it's necessary to help the community.
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by thorax 18y ago
This site has taught me not to downvote with emotion. I pretty much think "how many votes should this have? how great is the comment?" and I upvote or downvote it based on how incorrect their current rating is. Lately I find myself upvoting
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by thorax 18y ago
A year ago, comments that weren't blatantly offensive/crummy/rude/jerkish usually didn't fall below 0 points. The restraint of the community is what encouraged me to get so involved. I'm all for downvoting a bad troll or uninvited meme/rick
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by thorax 18y ago
search.wikia.com uses Grub: http://search.wikia.com/about/crawl.html And that index is also open for download, though I haven't looked much into it.
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by thorax 18y ago
Now that you mention it. Am I the only one seeing this? For the past month or so, Google has been less satisfying in their search results for me. I've been an avid Google search addict since 1998, I really sense a palpable drop in result qu
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by thorax 18y ago
Or http://chatterous.com/hnyc
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by thorax 18y ago
Does anyone else see their sites reflected wildly incorrect by compete.com? I have two sites that get 5-8 times the traffic shown by compete's graphs. Because of this, I just never take compete.com's stats as reliable at all.
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by thorax 18y ago
I didn't have so nearly a negative reaction. How it went for me: * Visited the page * Saw screenshot on right (thought: "cute enough") * Read paragraph next to it * Said "huh.. running a virtual taxi service? might be kind of fun to try out
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by thorax 18y ago
It only needs to confuse them for a split second once in a while to be a net gain (no pun intended). Even if it's just misjuding where they begin and end, their motion, distance, etc. They're not going to be like an invisibility cloak, but
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by thorax 18y ago
I tend to use LeechBlock for Firefox so I can be reminded to get back to work when I get pulled back in. (I used to use 8aweek until it disappeared...)
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by thorax 18y ago
Code Igniter is solid.
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by thorax 18y ago
I guess we'll have to start one for people who aren't in school?
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm so tired of talking about fake gag iPhone apps. I'd like to thank the person who made the Clinometer app, wherever he or she is. It's like a $2 digital level. It's really a slick real-world tool I didn't expect to turn my iPhone into.
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by thorax 18y ago
It's hard to say what the quarter would have been like without a major ad push in Q3. Maybe the ads were bad, but maybe their revenue would have been worse without them-- solely from a business perspective, you have to be careful with state
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by thorax 18y ago
I prefer "silly" to "mind-numbingly foolish", but I don't think he does himself any favors by using the term.
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by thorax 18y ago
We were predicting this after we interviewed with them in November. :) Congrats, pg and Jessica.
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by thorax 18y ago
I've been using Jing for a while now. http://jingproject.com

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