Ask HN: Review My (first) Startup: jummpp.in
Dear All,
This is my ugly baby that I love very much. I know you guys can inspire me to make it better.
It's a way to discover things to do with your friends.
You make suggestions of what you might want to do. "I want to see a movie", but you don't have to specify when, where, or even which movie. Different from a traditional event invitation system, it's designed to handle more uncertainty. Because first, you want to find out if there's interest in a suggestion. If there is, you work out the details to make a suggestion actually happen.
It's like reddit for events. It aggregates interest among your friends, to see what everyone would want to do, without anyone having to call up everyone.
I'd personally use it for long tail ideas like "going to the flea market", which I am not sure if ANYONE might be interested. I'd just toss it out there, and see if it sticks.
It's a way to discover your friends. You might realize that a friend is also interested in art house films, but you didn't know, because you never thought of to ask.
jummpp.in
My page is jummpp.in/hayeah
p.s. It uses facebook connect. The app doesn't post to your wall unless you explicitly share something. It only grabs your email and name to create an account.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 111 ms ] threadEspecially the enormous yellow bar on the front page. The type is way too big for the box, and the facebook connect icon is way too big. It needs to be displayed in its natural size - or an appropriately sized one needs to be found.
In general, little issues like that plague the UI and make it feel unpolished. Fixing them will go a long way towards making the app feel like something I'd want to use.
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ugly-websites/?utm_source=wptwit...
The link it is giving me to 'find friends' is: http://jummpp.in/users/45/find_friends
Like the design but could have a few more colours to feel more social for the non hacker/geek squad like us here :)
Decent name and url - I just bought a shorter URL which might be a better fit, but guess you want to stick with what you got :)
Also - add a simpler feedback form to the site - I couldn't be bothered to add my details / search for similar questions etc.
Looks like a fun idea though.
I have zero interest in coupling some new Web app to any of my other online accounts.
Just let me use a validated E-mail address and a password to use your site, and don't require me to let you hook into any other services I may or may not use.
With a validated email account, I would love to test out the site.
I don't use Facebook much, nor twitter all that much either, and don't see myself as part of (real or imagined) those demographics. So I'm skeptical that your service is for me, or will follow my interests.
I also wonder if your service will be posting updates or tweets on my behalf ("I just joined a service that tweets things without my wanting them to!") or if at some point they'll be an unwelcome exchange of info among applications.
While I'm sure some people see the option to use an existing ID system as a real convenience, I see it as a potential pathway to privacy invasion.
I agree with the above comment - I think you'd probably have more luck getting people to sign up for your service if they could try or at least browse parts of it without needing to associate an account with it first.
That way they can get a feel for what it does, what its value is, and why / if they might want to use it without having any cost.
Every user is going to associate some "cost" with the time it takes to associate their account with your service or the potential risks of associating with your service, and giving them a little taste of what your service might do first is a good way to help them overcome their initial objection to the perceived cost.
1) make a screen cast 2) link to my own account as an example page 3) some sort of alternate login
I'd love to do a more detailed walkthrough through your service later tonight and try to give you some pointers. I'm going to be relocating to a new city for work (LA) and your service would actually be very helpful for me.
You can DM me on Twitter (@Aaronontheweb) with an email address I can send you some more detailed user experience feedback if you're interested.
I'm wondering though, what's the big advantage over me just posting on Facebook 'anyone want to see inception tonight?'? Does it just help me to manage the responses?
as I develop the app more, I'd build more features to help solidify a suggestion. For example, multiple choices of dates, so people can vote on which date works the best.
The site I'm currently working on and discussions I've had with friends, a few have asked me to build exactly what you've got.
Others didn't want me to abandon the original idea, so I'm sticking to my guns, figuring somebody would nail the space you're going after (plancast is trying, but haven't seemed to capture the ad-hoc-iness that you've got).
I like your nice clean design and the simplicity of adding events, though I didn't get any sort of pop-up to post to my facebook page, so I can't really inform my friends about it (I used one of my old fb test accounts).
I see you linked in to your cirque list, which I think is really great, to get intros to other people who are looking to do similar things.
I'm going to be in Vancouver in the next week (I'm from Whistler) let me know if you want to meet-up for coffee and I can tell you about the suggestions I've had from my friends and my thoughts related to your project.
I can be reached at pete / hearwhere.com
In other words, consider linking to your profile (or a throw-away example profile) on the front page.
But ya, more API integration.
Also the footer links are not links. You can't click on them. If I just say this page, I would not sign up because it doesn't look real yet with just a single page.
the footer is a potemkin village ;)
1) provide independent login 2) explain better what facebook connect is used for 3) provide more information upfront what the service is like, some people can decide if they want it. 4) an example page
i am glad i got early feedback :) thank you all so much
However, I'd recommend doing some more brainstorming on the name (provided this is the brand you've settled on, and not just the dev site).
I know all too well that it's tough to find a good domain these days...but I think you can do better. I find that the average user's mind will have a hard time following ONE changed spelling convention. And you have two (the double-m & the double-p.)
Jummp.in? Cool. Jumpp.in? Sure. Jummpp.in? A little too cumbersome to explain to my friends when we're hanging out (& have any chance of them remembering it).
My personal recommendation: For maximum readability, consider something like "letsjump.in". If you're attached to a quirkily spelled "jump in", "jumpp.in" is fairly readable.
jummp.in letsjump.in jummpp.in
and incidentally, but completely unrelated,
hummpp.me ;)
which would should be the canonical? I am think letsjump.in? then in the future i can maybe buy jump.in, without having to rebrand
Incidentally, I agree with all of the above commentary. Unfortunately, it's the sad reality of trying to start up an online service/product/whatnot today.
For the canonical, I like letsjump.in or gojump.in - and it's never too early to try and snag jump.in (the owner might be willing to part with it for less than you think). Good luck!
I'd add optional time/date and location fields for events that actually do have a set time and location. Looks like it might be Rails-based, so you can use the Chronic gem for easy natural-language time parsing (sort of like Plancast does).
you suck and will be living from food stamps very soon