Ask HN: Review my side project - Reel Roulette (reelroulette.net)
http://reelroulette.net/
It's supposed to be a gimmicky and easy way to find motion designers. Basically, you can upload "reels" and people can view random ones and vote on ones they like. It's kind of like Chat Roulette, except with no penises (so far).
You can read more about the making of the site here:
http://almosteffortless.com/2010/03/26/reel-roulette/
The thing that makes me happy about this site is that it was built in about 30 hours of work between 3 people. I know it's nothing too special and has plenty of room for improvement, but people seem to be enjoying it so far.
I'd love to hear any ideas you may have about improving the site, and I'm pondering potential ways to make money from the thing without spoiling it. It's been fun as-is, but it would be nice if we could justify spending more time on it than we already have by way of making some cash.
Any feedback more than welcome. Thanks!
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 88.9 ms ] threadIt's supposed to be a gimmicky and easy way to find motion designers. Basically, you can upload "reels" and people can view random ones and vote on ones they like. It's kind of like Chat Roulette, except with no penises (so far).
You can read more about the making of the site here:
http://almosteffortless.com/2010/03/26/reel-roulette/
The thing that makes me happy about this site is that it was built in about 30 hours of work between 3 people. I know it's nothing too special and has plenty of room for improvement, but people seem to be enjoying it so far.
I'd love to hear any ideas you may have about improving the site, and I'm pondering potential ways to make money from the thing without spoiling it. It's been fun as-is, but it would be nice if we could justify spending more time on it than we already have by way of making some cash.
Any feedback is more than welcome. Thanks!
PS: If I owned this URL, I might use it to do something chatroulette related while there's still a thousand and one opportunities. But good on getting involved in what you enjoy doing. Good luck trevorturk.
If that's not currently possible, I suggest looking into it. As user, I would like the action of Liking this reel be reflected on the source file.
If you do that, it's easy to see vimeo being interested in your product/feature/mashup or at least you can attract active vimeo users, whom discovering and liking is a large part of their activity.
For the time being, I think our plan is to make a "top 20" page or something like that which would feature the reels with the most votes.
Sweet app. Great portfolios.
I spent about 10 minutes flipping through reels, and linked a friend. Now he's going through reels. We probably won't get much work done for the rest of the afternoon :D
The site itself is very cool, was mostly wondering at the underlying item and why it exists (beyond the fact they look cool).
Your like button is too far away from the next button, and neither has keyboard shortcuts.
Site looks great, by the way. One thing I'll say is that I ran into the same reel after just two clicks -- this should be pretty easy to avoid, either by shuffling an array of reels (rather than pulling one out at random), or by tracking which reels I've seen in a session variable.
Good luck!
I didn't know exactly where to search for any talented designers, and eLance, along with some of the job boards, really don't give you much material to review. But I like this setup at first glance, and the quality so far seems to be pretty good.
I might actually find who I'm looking for through this service.
along that vein, why are you using likes instead of ratings?