OpenCirclez
Consumer and social
local events discovery
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.50.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat idea
From 1 comment
Neat idea... 2 things: 1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a…
thinkdevcode on HN
Objections
Landing page does not explain what the site does
From 1 comment
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HN
Changing location gets stuck or fails to load
From 3 comments
Neat idea... 2 things: 1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a…
thinkdevcode on HNMaybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HNUsing Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.
sil3ntmac on HN
Unclear how it differs from existing event sites like Meetup, Facebook and MySpace
From 3 comments
what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?
minalecs on HNMaybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HNwell just off the top of my head, I know upcoming (yahoo), going (aol), and myspace events all are events sites that allow search by location.
minalecs on HN
Location defaults to Manhattan and location sharing prompt is easy to miss
From 3 comments
I can't figure out how to change my location from Manhattan (I'm in Australia)
mhansen on HNUsing Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.
sil3ntmac on HNThanks for replying! I didn't see anything on pageload. I'm on Chromium 8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10. (EDIT: I reloaded again, and I saw a bar come down asking if I can give…
mhansen on HN
Requests
Explain the site on the landing page
From 1 comment
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HN
Add a cancel button to the post message form
From 1 comment
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HN
Fix the sidebar Twitter bar layout
From 1 comment
Neat idea... 2 things: 1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a…
thinkdevcode on HN
Questions
How does it improve on Meetup?
From 1 comment
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HN
What is different from other event sites like Facebook and MySpace?
From 1 comment
what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?
minalecs on HN
Alternatives named
Meetup
From 1 comment
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure…
bertil on HN
Upcoming (Yahoo), Going (AOL), MySpace events
From 1 comment
well just off the top of my head, I know upcoming (yahoo), going (aol), and myspace events all are events sites that allow search by location.
minalecs on HN
Facebook events
From 1 comment
what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?
minalecs on HN