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Not just for bootstrap though. Our goal is to reach out to shelters, rescues, and charities to help them with adoption and fund raising. Groups like the ASPCA have a…",{"value":57,"source":51,"evidence":58},"Dog owners and people who like looking at dogs, plus shelters and rescues",[59],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":61,"source":51,"evidence":62},"Built around the maker's wife's idea; aims to help shelters and rescues with adoption and fundraising",[63],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[65,71,75],{"value":66,"source":51,"evidence":67},"jQuery",[68],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"3844470","Oh, if anyone cares: The site was built with jQuery and Knockoutjs with ASP.NET web service backend. The push updates come from a ASP.NET module I'm working on and will open…",{"value":72,"source":51,"evidence":73},"Knockoutjs",[74],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},{"value":76,"source":51,"evidence":77},"ASP.NET web services",[78],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"unknown","launched",{"praise":82,"objections":114,"requests":154,"questions":175,"alternatives":183},[83,99],{"value":84,"source":85,"evidence":86},"Slick, fun interface and easy to start voting","commenter",[87,91,95],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"3844557","Judson","Really like how easy it was to start voting. One thing I noticed was that it seems like your using pushState for every vote? I had to hit the back button 20 times to get back to…",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"3844538","roadnottaken","Nicely done! I've seen dozens of these side-by-side pic voting sites, but this is the slickest interface, by far. Very entertaining -- good job.",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"3844613","pygorex","Love the interface. Very similar to puppywar.com but with adoption hooks. A filter by age would be good. When a puppy is put up against an older dog I almost always upvoted the…",{"value":100,"source":85,"evidence":101},"Good adoption hook and cause",[102,106,110],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"3844349","Caligula","Awesome idea to help get dogs adopted. I hope it is a huge success.",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"3844524","dwynings","WOW, what a great way to bootstrap submissions by using pictures of puppies available for adoption!",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"3844574","TWSS","I love that most of the dogs seem to be adoptable. It's a great hook. I wonder if you could allow users who've logged in with Facebook to only see dogs near them.",[115,134,146],{"value":116,"source":85,"evidence":117},"Slow loading and endless 'loading' screens under HN traffic",[118,122,126,130],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"3844465","pud","I'm on a slow-ish Wifi connection at the airport. It's fast enough for YouTube streaming but not for your site. So far on your site I'm looking at an ad with two things that say…",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"3844459","mrhyperpenguin","I agree with this. I waited 30 seconds just looking at ads while the page was 'loading'. After that I just left because I felt you were more interested in show me ads than content.",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"3844497","zupreme","I'm on a relatively fast connection (16mb down) and it took a significant amount of time to load for me (Macbook Pro using Safari). Perhaps enabling caching on your server will…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"3845733","botolo","Argh, I want to vote puppies but I see \"loading\" :-( Me want puppies!",{"value":135,"source":85,"evidence":136},"Ads shown before content are annoying",[137,138,142],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"3844391","jayzee","I would not start running ads right out of the gate. You could show something funny while the pics load instead of ads.",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"3844387","johnrob","Great idea - people love their dogs and this is a great way to show them off to others. I'd get rid of the ads for now - they dilute the 'brand' (for lack of a better word),…",{"value":147,"source":85,"evidence":148},"Back button broken after voting due to pushState",[149,150],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"3844507","moobirubi","The back button is pretty broken after voting",[155,167],{"value":156,"source":85,"evidence":157},"Filter or segment by age and breed",[158,159,163],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"3844539","kkbb","Great idea, I think this will be a big success. Personally I don't think you should let people vote within a certain breed, its more fun as a free-for-all. That being said, it…",{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"3844444","brianlynn11","Love the idea. I see the initial challenge being that there are many different breeds and many dog-lovers just have very distinct taste. For example, my ex absolutely adores the…",{"value":168,"source":85,"evidence":169},"Show dogs near the user by location",[170,171],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"3844837","prawn","Alternatively, have something like: \"Think this one's cute? 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