I wanted to obtain some feedback on what some fellow hackers think of ShowFilter.com. The goal of the web app is to provide personalized TV show recommendations to one person or a group of people (e.g. what should you watch if your friends and your significant other’s friends/family are all in a room together). The overarching goal for the UI is simplicity (e.g. the user should be able to provide ratings on 150 items in under 3 minutes). I'm curious to see what you think of features like "Who's In The Room", the toolbar for navigation, and the "one-pager" style of the app among other things.
If it wasn't for the introduction you gave here I wouldn't know what the site was about.<p>When I visited the site I had no idea who I am rating the shows for; one person or a group of people or whom? In addition maybe you could provide the YC users with a (demo account) user name and password to test the system? Oh and I tried to rate a show but I got a server error...<p>Side Note: When I go to the sign up page and I try to go back to the main page by clicking on the logo it stays on the sign up page.
Consider making the sign-up a lightbox. I'm not the world's biggest fan of modal lightboxes, but when I first tried to rate/vote on Reddit and it let me login without taking away my entire screen to another page, it was a good feeling.<p>Other than that, I have friends in this space and it's ultra competitive and getting tougher. I like the twist of coming up with recommendations for a group, but it's rare for me where that is useful for TV. I'd almost rather it provide recommendations for a video game, movie, or board game than just a TV show.<p>Having things disappear when I rate them is a little painful. I keep trying to quickly move down the list to rate more things, but then it refreshes (it seems) and I'm disoriented trying to figure out where to rate next.<p>Maybe it would help if it just said "Rate one of the below shows" and gave you a Thanks! response after you did it? I'm not sure what would improve the experience, but you may want to tweak that.<p>I'm not your ideal user as I don't watch TV.<p>Best of luck!
I don't like the one-page style, pages can't be linked to. It's also bad for SEO. It also causes problems with the viewstate, after clicking around a bit I couldn't go back to the homepage (stuck on the login) no matter what I clicked and even if I refreshed the page.<p>The toolbar doesn't describe what it does. I see some images but have no idea what they do, not text that describes what the image-button does when you mouseover images.<p>I think you should try to make the design more usable and easy to use instead of making it cool/trendy.