Follow up to our HN name-badge-printing story: We're now revealing "View"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/05/view/

by felixchan • 15 years ago

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felixchan4• 15 years ago

Hi Hacker News,

After our bootstrapping story that we wrote on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222522), TechCrunch wrote about us, and we're really excited to finally reveal our product, View, to the public.

We hope you guys are excited about this as we are!

Thanks for all the support, Hacker News! (And also, thanks to the beta testers--you guys rock.)

-Felix and Zac :)

nfriedly• 15 years ago

Do you have your own site for people who boycott tech crunch links? ;)

zbowling4• 15 years ago

Here you go.... http://view.io/

jwwest• 15 years ago

Are you guys going to be at SXSW by any chance? Love to buy you a beer and convince you to get started on a native Android version. ;)

felixchan4• 15 years ago

Yes we are, we're launching at SXSW. Shoot me an email - felix@view.io

regularfry• 15 years ago

What's the international story? I'm in the UK, so don't have a zip code - does that matter?

zdw• 15 years ago

This seems abusable... imagine photoshopping a picture to reflect poorly on a competitor, spoofing the GPS and then getting fake accounts to vote it up.

This is not a unique criticism - all social media is subject to attack cases like this - the difference here would be that pictures tend to carry more weight than a simple textual message.

felixchan4• 15 years ago

Yep, it's very hard to prevent spam, But I think eventually there are ways to control it (We're actually learning a lot from Quora)

jarin2• 15 years ago

Any good links? On http://setformarriage.com we've gotten rid of about 95% of spam by using CloudFlare, country blocking, and the Facebook Registration Tool, but it sure would be nice to get that last 5% down as small as possible.

zbowling4• 15 years ago

Moderation takes care of it (everyone is a moderator in a way similar to Reddit). Enough irrelevant clicks and it's gone.

The relevancy algorithm also solves it partly when you upvote and downvote enough things and the system build can build up some profile vectors for you to improve ranking for yourself.

We did some really through analysis and built a bunch of statistical models and tests. We think we can handle the problem makers and still try to maintain highly personal relevant and realtime posts wherever you are at.

As a test, we scrapped 4chan and dumped posts of that scum at random intervals. Beta users killed it really fast and quality didn't suffer. Turned it into a game a little bit and it reveled our early evangelists.

The trick is doing all this relevancy matching without crippling scaling issues when we turn up the dial on users. Really fun engineering problem.

jarin2• 15 years ago

Haha I love it, 4chan as a spam testing tool.

rwhitman2• 15 years ago

That seems like an awful lot of work for something that would only be viewable for a radius of a few miles

rwhitman2• 15 years ago

Very cool. I could see myself using this. Really hope an android-native version is on its way

warrenwilkinson• 15 years ago

Thats a cool idea. I'd never heard of location-relevancy before, but it sounds way more useful to me than locations other big startup area: 'tell me where my friends are'.

Follow up to our HN name-badge-printing story: We're now revealing "View"

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