Show HN: Had That Beer - Many many weekends project

It took me a few minutes of wandering around to see the "Find beers, brewers and places" search box. You really need to make it more prominent. White text instead of ochre yellow might be a better choice. It's quite funny considering I'm in the middle of reading "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug and just 2 minutes ago, I was reading the bit where he wrote, use "Search" for your search box labels, not other words like Find.<p>As others have pointed out, please list some beers already. It's too much work to expect me to start typing in beer names randomly.<p>Why don't you present me with your own and other early users' profiles which already have a bunch of beers listed? Ask me if I like any of them or know one I like better.<p>Even Myspace didn't make me feel so lonely. At least, Tom was my friend. Be my friend, Mat.<p>Edit: Between the logo, top two nav links, search box, top right links, main page text, Search button text, you have too many text styles going on, which is confusing the visual heirarchy.

Are you depending on users to input all the different types of beers? Would be nice if you could scrape together an extensive list that I could pick from. Was imagining a grid with pictures of bottles/logos and easy one click to select.<p>I searched for the last two beers I had, nothing terribly exotic, and didn't find either and so gave up at that point.

The url <a href="http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/1" rel="nofollow">http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/1</a> instantly worried me, so I tried <a href="http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/2" rel="nofollow">http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/2</a>, <a href="http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/3" rel="nofollow">http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/3</a>, etc and all were available.<p>Are user profiles meant to be public? If not that's a pretty serious security flaw.<p>Other than that, the site looks great.

Couldn't get to the Beers section, assume you're in the middle of updating it? It would be really great to have a way of tagging or arbitrarily grouping beers together, e.g. "fruity" or "goes with Salmon" etc, as well as by obvious characteristics (e.g. brewer). When I'm thinking about a beer, I'm more interested in the sort of beer it is than ranking it by a number.

Great idea. My two biggest/immediate suggestions:<p>Allow Twitter signup (and FB, I suppose - I say Twitter b/c that's the one I care about.<p>Create a really, really, really good mobile experience. Seriously, if you want users to actually use the site, let them do it while they're drinking a beer, no matter where that is.

Coming from someone who's done almost the same thing, you need to remove the barrier to entry (signup) - for some reason beer drinkers won't fill in forms. Allow twitter/Facebook signin or even anonymous ratings- a signup form was the single biggest mistake I made with my site (and I made a lot of mistakes)

Beer Advocate (<a href="http://beeradvocate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://beeradvocate.com/</a>) has been around for a while.