http://jummpp.in<p>Dear All,<p>This is my ugly baby that I love very much. I know you guys can inspire me to make it better.<p>It's a way to discover things to do with your friends.<p>You make suggestions of what you might want to do. "I want to see a movie", but you don't have to specify when, where, or even which movie. Different from a traditional event invitation system, it's designed to handle more uncertainty. Because first, you want to find out if there's interest in a suggestion. If there is, you work out the details to make a suggestion actually happen.<p>It's like reddit for events. It aggregates interest among your friends, to see what everyone would want to do, without anyone having to call up everyone.<p>I'd personally use it for long tail ideas like "going to the flea market", which I am not sure if ANYONE might be interested. I'd just toss it out there, and see if it sticks.<p>It's a way to discover your friends. You might realize that a friend is also interested in art house films, but you didn't know, because you never thought of to ask.<p>jummpp.in<p>My page is jummpp.in/hayeah<p>p.s. It uses facebook connect. The app doesn't post to your wall unless you explicitly share something. It only grabs your email and name to create an account.
Your baby is not ugly!<p>The site I'm currently working on and discussions I've had with friends, a few have asked me to build exactly what you've got.<p>Others didn't want me to abandon the original idea, so I'm sticking to my guns, figuring somebody would nail the space you're going after (plancast is trying, but haven't seemed to capture the ad-hoc-iness that you've got).<p>I like your nice clean design and the simplicity of adding events, though I didn't get any sort of pop-up to post to my facebook page, so I can't really inform my friends about it (I used one of my old fb test accounts).<p>I see you linked in to your cirque list, which I think is really great, to get intros to other people who are looking to do similar things.<p>I'm going to be in Vancouver in the next week (I'm from Whistler) let me know if you want to meet-up for coffee and I can tell you about the suggestions I've had from my friends and my thoughts related to your project.<p>I can be reached at pete / hearwhere.com
I'm not big fan of using Facebook login. I would think that it raises a barrier of entry for users, either because they don't have a facebook account or because they don't know what side affects your app will have. You don't explain what the advantages of using Facebook, or what integration there is with facebook. How will it affect the users's facebook account. You said in your post that it does not post to your wall, but you don't say that on the site that I can see.<p>Also the footer links are not links. You can't click on them. If I just say this page, I would not sign up because it doesn't look real yet with just a single page.
So, I think my biggest problem with this app is the UI. The layout is okay, but there are lots of places where the spacing is really far off.<p>Especially the enormous yellow bar on the front page. The type is way too big for the box, and the facebook connect icon is way too big. It needs to be displayed in its natural size - or an appropriately sized one needs to be found.<p>In general, little issues like that plague the UI and make it feel unpolished. Fixing them will go a long way towards making the app feel like something I'd want to use.
Seems like a cool idea.<p>However, I'd recommend doing some more brainstorming on the name (provided this is the brand you've settled on, and not just the dev site).<p>I know all too well that it's tough to find a good domain these days...but I think you can do better. I find that the average user's mind will have a hard time following ONE changed spelling convention. And you have two (the double-m & the double-p.)<p>Jummp.in? Cool. Jumpp.in? Sure. Jummpp.in? A little too cumbersome to explain to my friends when we're hanging out (& have any chance of them remembering it).
For me it seems like an app that would work with small groups of friends (like people from the same college) maybe you can consider using OpenID integration for everyone that doesn't use Facebook. IMHO there's a lot of API integration that you can do, like Google Calendar or even YouTube or Flickr for a fancy description of the event. And in the future consider going mobile, anyway, great idea.
I think it sounds like a really cool idea and I would almost certainly use it if my friends were using it. That being said, I'm not going to associate my Facebook account with this app unless I'm a little more sure I'll actually use it. For me to make that decision, I need to see some examples.<p>In other words, consider linking to your profile (or a throw-away example profile) on the front page.
It's a pretty neat idea, I just created an event to see who wants to go see Inception.<p>I'd add optional time/date and location fields for events that actually do have a set time and location. Looks like it might be Rails-based, so you can use the Chronic gem for easy natural-language time parsing (sort of like Plancast does).
Great idea, and this is definitely something i could see myself using.<p>I'm wondering though, what's the big advantage over me just posting on Facebook 'anyone want to see inception tonight?'? Does it just help me to manage the responses?
thanks everyone for taking the time to comment. I think the main lessons are:<p>1) provide independent login
2) explain better what facebook connect is used for
3) provide more information upfront what the service is like, some people can decide if they want it.
4) an example page<p>i am glad i got early feedback :) thank you all so much
after using facebook connect to log in I clicked 'find friends' (either in the to do list or up top) and it appears to log me out and take me to the front page...