Show HN: ProfilePerfecter "Your Online Wingwoman"

http://www.profileperfecter.com/

by bennyfreshness • 15 years ago

4 6 15 years ago

mneedham• 15 years ago

Showed it to a single friend of mine and she posted this tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/SlightlySerious/status/123865223177310...

bennyfreshness2• 15 years ago

well you instantly settled my "will women be open to this?" issue.. THX!

dlikhten3• 15 years ago

Seeing as how this is on hacker news, are these "women" reviewing photos human or part of our migration to look good for our robot overlords (all hail!)? Because the latter would be so much more awesome.

Also I think this is a great idea since often people post photos that don't quite compliment them, even though there is a positive emotion associated with the photo, others see it differently. A nice way to get a human (or robot) review of stuff.

however:

a) seems to prey on people's emotional state when they are desperately hunting for a date. Basically I have no reassurance that these "women" are in any way good at rating profiles, or would be helpful. I may feel its better but it may not be.

b) why do women need be the only reviewers? Again pointing to (a). Men can do an equally good job granted that they have appropriate experience in the field, as they may know what works vs "what I would like, as a woman".

(b) seems to be the ux problems, users don't really know what they want, instead professionals know how to get to what the users want. %s/users/women %s/professionals/some\ men

bennyfreshness2• 15 years ago

Very good points! THX!

Right now its all women, although I'm experimenting w/ Mechanical Turk to rate photos and other things. Hopefully I can lower costs by using our robot overlords.

I don't mean to prey on emotions, I just want to offer a service to improve your online dating experience.

I agree, men could be equally useful in judging profiles, I have to find out the comfort level guys have with other guys critiquing them. Personally I wouldn't care.

Not sure I understood your last point exactly, please elaborate..

dlikhten3• 15 years ago

Joke attempt. Men who are good at picking up women may be the best advisers for men looking to pick up women, while women may indicate what they'd like to see from a guy but their advise may not be the best advise in how to pick up women.

Ex: A woman may have an idea what she'd like to see. However she may have no idea how to attract other women. :P Whereas the ladies' man (Leon Phelps)... you get my point. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213790/)

dlikhten3• 15 years ago

FWIW check out the posts from OkCupid on their statistical analytics of dating photos and such. It was an excelent overview as to what people find attractive and how the same person with two diff cameras and shots can appear on opposite scales of the attractive-o-meter.

*Idea -> professional photos for online profiles -> guaranteed awesomeness.

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