(Copy & pasted from a feedback email to Dave because I thought others might like to elaborate and discuss):
Great job on starting HackerBuddy. I was impressed with how quickly it matched me up with someone!
Ideas as they came to me:
1. Cool icons and good tooltips for areas of expertise!
2. I like my profile but you should allow vanity URLs like hackerbuddy.com/artvankilmer
3. Are you pulling pics from Gravatar? Nice bit of personalization.
4. Twitter and HN icons would be a natural addition :)
5. My Twitter and HN usernames are probably my HackerBuddy username. Could suggest that automatically instead of making me type it in.
6. Browse Users isn't prominent enough!
7. How I can give feedback isn't prominent enough!
8. Browse Users can't just be a dump of profile names. I need to be able to slice & dice by expertise, general availability (don't suggest folks that have already been paired with a bunch of other users), etc.
9. Some kind of reputation / recommendation / feedback system would really help. Why not pull in a user's HN karma or StackOverflow score to help seed things a bit? Even feedback on a user's profile of how helpful they were would help.
10. "CSS" is painfully missing, esp. since you have "Design", "HTML", and "JavaScript". CSS != Design (e.g. I think Photoshop, Illustrator, wireframes)
11. Logged out home page is a good start but you need more to hook folks. Try imagery of hackers helping hackers, appealing to folks obsessed with HN karma / SO scores / Twitter followers, and just nailing your value prop. "Free karma for helpful hackers" doesn't do it for me.
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(Copy & pasted from a feedback email to Dave because I thought others might like to elaborate and discuss):
Great job on starting HackerBuddy. I was impressed with how quickly it matched me up with someone!
Ideas as they came to me:
1. Cool icons and good tooltips for areas of expertise!
2. I like my profile but you should allow vanity URLs like hackerbuddy.com/artvankilmer
3. Are you pulling pics from Gravatar? Nice bit of personalization.
4. Twitter and HN icons would be a natural addition :)
5. My Twitter and HN usernames are probably my HackerBuddy username. Could suggest that automatically instead of making me type it in.
6. Browse Users isn't prominent enough!
7. How I can give feedback isn't prominent enough!
8. Browse Users can't just be a dump of profile names. I need to be able to slice & dice by expertise, general availability (don't suggest folks that have already been paired with a bunch of other users), etc.
9. Some kind of reputation / recommendation / feedback system would really help. Why not pull in a user's HN karma or StackOverflow score to help seed things a bit? Even feedback on a user's profile of how helpful they were would help.
10. "CSS" is painfully missing, esp. since you have "Design", "HTML", and "JavaScript". CSS != Design (e.g. I think Photoshop, Illustrator, wireframes)
11. Logged out home page is a good start but you need more to hook folks. Try imagery of hackers helping hackers, appealing to folks obsessed with HN karma / SO scores / Twitter followers, and just nailing your value prop. "Free karma for helpful hackers" doesn't do it for me.
Keep up the good work!
A github link as well as twitter/hn would be good as well