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Review my app: FoodFyt, FaceMash for food

10 points by Baher 15y ago

moblivu 15y ago
Great website! I just lost 20 minutes of my life rating food to then die in even to eat many of them. I think it is therefore a mission success! I think a great concept you could add would be a food fight mode where you create your own fight between two image you added and can send a link to it. This would be great when two person argue about who cooked better or what tastes better between two thing. It would be a simple way to incorporate the classic human fight over two meal with a fun tool to get a result out the fight.
- Baher 15y ago
  Thanks! Great idea! allowing users to create custom pairs of photo and allow to share them is on the upcoming features list, and perhaps a facebook app would suit this purpose.
jaredstenquist 15y ago
Interesting idea. It would be a lot more valuable with a domain name that a potential user could spell after hearing it mentioned to them. Also - A caption for each submission would be huge.
- Baher 15y ago
  that's the best domain name that I could think of at the time. As for the caption, I'm not sure yet... I'm still trying to see if I can pull the photo comment from Instagram.
revorad 15y ago
Looks cool. You could do better with displaying the results like this site - http://www.thematchinggame.com/ http://www.thematchinggame.com/
- Baher 15y ago
  bar grahps is definitely a more powerful visual cue... will see when I can add it, thanks for the idea!
  - revorad 15y ago
    Not just the type of graph but the fact that you don't have to scroll down to see the results. I didn't notice the results until I scrolled by mistake. If you have to keep scrolling up and down, it's annoying.
    - Baher 15y ago
      true! we could improve that by saving some of the spaces in the design to bring above the fold, will do that right away!
jsavimbi 15y ago
That's awesome, thank you! Would love to be able to sign in via Instagram and add my images.
- Baher 15y ago
  Thought about this, but if we open it up to users some of them may upload photos that are not about food, right? Or maybe we can do some moderation before including them, or even allow users to weed out non-food photos.
  - jsavimbi 15y ago
    There's your problem right there. If I can't upload my photos and compare them to others and be judged, then I have no use for the service. There are solutions to this problem, but censuring, controlling or impeding user contributions is not one of them.
ecito 15y ago
I think it's becoming the norm for these comparison sites to use the 1 and 2 keys to select between the two choices. You don't have it, I was disappoint.
- Baher 15y ago
  you're absolutely right! it was a weekend project of sorts, so we didn't have time to add everything we wanted to see
alexmchale 15y ago
Thank you for not calling it a "startup." I like the site!
- Baher 15y ago
  can't call a weekend project a startup!
r00k 15y ago
Very nice design. One request: keyboard shortcuts. If you'd like people to play a bunch (and I imagine you would), this would be a nice touch.
- Baher 15y ago
  true, will add this by today or tomorrow
djjose 15y ago
Pretty cool! Noticed a possible bug though. Mouseover the left image gives me a vote url param of r and right image param yields l. Could cause some weird reports for ya if you hadn't noticed.
thebigj 15y ago
hey question, how did you overcome the network effect problem, since for voting games like these to be 'fun', would require a pool of 'items' to be in the universe.

10 points by Baher 15y ago

Great website! I just lost 20 minutes of my life rating food to then die in even to eat many of them. I think it is therefore a mission success! I think a great concept you could add would be a food fight mode where you create your own fight between two image you added and can send a link to it. This would be great when two person argue about who cooked better or what tastes better between two thing. It would be a simple way to incorporate the classic human fight over two meal with a fun tool to get a result out the fight.

Baher 15y ago
Thanks! Great idea! allowing users to create custom pairs of photo and allow to share them is on the upcoming features list, and perhaps a facebook app would suit this purpose.

jaredstenquist 15y ago

Interesting idea. It would be a lot more valuable with a domain name that a potential user could spell after hearing it mentioned to them. Also - A caption for each submission would be huge.

Baher 15y ago
that's the best domain name that I could think of at the time. As for the caption, I'm not sure yet... I'm still trying to see if I can pull the photo comment from Instagram.

revorad 15y ago

Looks cool. You could do better with displaying the results like this site - http://www.thematchinggame.com/ http://www.thematchinggame.com/

Baher 15y ago
bar grahps is definitely a more powerful visual cue... will see when I can add it, thanks for the idea!
- revorad 15y ago
  Not just the type of graph but the fact that you don't have to scroll down to see the results. I didn't notice the results until I scrolled by mistake. If you have to keep scrolling up and down, it's annoying.
  - Baher 15y ago
    true! we could improve that by saving some of the spaces in the design to bring above the fold, will do that right away!

jsavimbi 15y ago

That's awesome, thank you! Would love to be able to sign in via Instagram and add my images.

Baher 15y ago
Thought about this, but if we open it up to users some of them may upload photos that are not about food, right? Or maybe we can do some moderation before including them, or even allow users to weed out non-food photos.
- jsavimbi 15y ago
  There's your problem right there. If I can't upload my photos and compare them to others and be judged, then I have no use for the service. There are solutions to this problem, but censuring, controlling or impeding user contributions is not one of them.

ecito 15y ago

I think it's becoming the norm for these comparison sites to use the 1 and 2 keys to select between the two choices. You don't have it, I was disappoint.

Baher 15y ago
you're absolutely right! it was a weekend project of sorts, so we didn't have time to add everything we wanted to see

alexmchale 15y ago

Thank you for not calling it a "startup." I like the site!

Baher 15y ago
can't call a weekend project a startup!

r00k 15y ago

Very nice design. One request: keyboard shortcuts. If you'd like people to play a bunch (and I imagine you would), this would be a nice touch.

Baher 15y ago
true, will add this by today or tomorrow

djjose 15y ago

Pretty cool! Noticed a possible bug though. Mouseover the left image gives me a vote url param of r and right image param yields l. Could cause some weird reports for ya if you hadn't noticed.

thebigj 15y ago

hey question, how did you overcome the network effect problem, since for voting games like these to be 'fun', would require a pool of 'items' to be in the universe.