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by udayj • 13 years ago

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udayj11• 13 years ago

Hi HN, I am developing LeanReviews with a goal to make it easier to share opinions about anything people care about. People often have lots of opinions about lots of things but dont usually write elaborate reviews. LeanReviews makes sharing quick reviews almost trivial. I had submitted this to HN about a week ago but could not get any response. So I revamped some things and am resubmitting. I hope I get some feedback - any feedback is good feedback. Thanks.

sycren4• 13 years ago

Hey little bug which confused me a bit.

The placeholder text for 'your review' contains "Search for review eg. Tom Cruise" which is the same as the actual search field.

Perhaps you should change the text to 'lively, beautiful etc'

Theres a D3 word cloud example here - http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud

Perhaps you could also change the layout style for the words to make it look more interesting ;)

Otherwise looking good :D

udayj11• 13 years ago

Hey thanks for the feedback. You are right need to look at the UI. Also, thanks for pointing out the bug. Main issue presently is that I am not getting much feedback. Is this form of review/opinion visualisation something that people want? There is a network effects problem.

mxack• 13 years ago

you can also try separating negative and positive words in the word-cloud. Looks good!

udayj11• 13 years ago

Hey thanks for the suggestion. I was also thinking of doing something along those lines. However, dont have enough content presently. Some kind of sentiment analysis would be useful.

maniacwhat• 13 years ago

great job, but a favicon would be nice :)

udayj11• 13 years ago

Hey thanks for your feedback. We do need a logo and a favicon. Any suggestions for getting a logo designed?

lf6648• 13 years ago

Awesome idea, with a very nice and pure design! Am I the only one experiencing an error 500 while trying to activate my newly-created account?

udayj11• 13 years ago

Thanks for the compliments. There could be a bug. Thanks for letting me know.

aaronz82• 13 years ago

Hey, great idea! I found a couple bugs:

1. There is not much user input validation, if any. For example, I submitted <h1>Broken</h1> to the San Francisco page, and it broke the "Explore Review Frequencies" section.

2. There is no checking for repeating submissions. Using a while loop on "send_review('stuff')" repeated my submission until I refreshed the page. A way to fix this would be to save an array of user ids per topic, but unfortunately that would require user login. Or, you could save an array of ip addresses, though obviously there are easy ways to get around that.

aaronz82• 13 years ago

By the way... feel free to delete all the "broken" tags in the San Francisco page...

udayj11• 13 years ago

Hey thanks for letting me know of the bugs. Presently I am not disallowing repeated submissions. Earlier submitting a review required you to be logged in. However, I thought that might put off users who didnt want to go to the hassle of signing up with an account. But yes that is something I need to solve. Also, you are correct - there is not much user input validation. So lots of work that needs to be done.

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