So our team wanted to start on a new app after we got the interview notice, and we decided to launch it today. We'd love to get your feedback on it before PG grills us.
On the buy page, I would prefer if you don't redirect me to the profile of the pet I just bought. It would be a much faster interface if I could just keep buying. Also, I can buy a pet I already own from the "Steal this pet" button on my profile.
The game itself is oddly compelling, especially for a game where the mechanics haven't quite been sorted out.
Note: This is going to come across crappy, but please don't take it that way. I'm actually curious.
Care to share anymore of your ultimate goal? From the outset, I don't see anything too compelling, and I didn't really expect YC to jump on the Facebook App train. Is there more to it that you're holding back on for now?
Yeah I totally understand. This app is pretty tangential to what we're doing, but I think it's too early to talk about that. Our goal was to see if we can design, develop, and launch a Facebook application in a week.
So our team wanted to start on a new app after we got the interview notice, and we decided to launch it today. We'd love to get your feedback on it before PG grills us.
i'm sure YC and you guys have the next google in the making.. super awesome powerful app man that will have investor crawling to YC's doorstep.. awesome choice YC! what a great foresight!
1) The scrolling back and forth to buy one pet is annoying. I want a shopping basket for buying pets
2) You could be way more aggresive with my minifeed. Saying Sumon has bought Irra K as a pet in my minifeed would be awesome for virality
3) Where is the box within my profile? It would be cool to see what pets i owned in my profile widget. Then have a link saying buy them back and make cash! That would get people adding this app.
Its a good start - and having a celebdaq equivalent for facebook would be awesome. Study fluff friends for some more inspiration.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 60.9 ms ] threadThe game itself is oddly compelling, especially for a game where the mechanics haven't quite been sorted out.
Care to share anymore of your ultimate goal? From the outset, I don't see anything too compelling, and I didn't really expect YC to jump on the Facebook App train. Is there more to it that you're holding back on for now?
Could be a good opportunity to get your team working together, learn from some small mistakes, etc.
I think you should be able to use one of the built in fb:friend-selectors with some ajax to make it pretty slick.
Although news.yc is really upsetting the gender ratio right now =)
1) The scrolling back and forth to buy one pet is annoying. I want a shopping basket for buying pets 2) You could be way more aggresive with my minifeed. Saying Sumon has bought Irra K as a pet in my minifeed would be awesome for virality 3) Where is the box within my profile? It would be cool to see what pets i owned in my profile widget. Then have a link saying buy them back and make cash! That would get people adding this app.
Its a good start - and having a celebdaq equivalent for facebook would be awesome. Study fluff friends for some more inspiration.
Minifeed stories are coming, couldn't fit that in to our schedule on time.