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Show HN: Meetifyr – Get your friends together

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This is very similar to a Doodle, however lacks the clean / less-eye hurting visuals.

I would still recommend Doodle if anyone is still looking for an option in this field: http://doodle.com/

Ouch. I hope when I post something to HN I get constructive criticism or even skepticism but I would really not want commenters recommend other similar projects or ideas.

Why would you not want to see the competition?

Sorry, I thought I provided constructive criticism.

This project has been up since 2011 (check their blog), so I thought they must have known about Doodle already, and can solicit further feedback on why someone may prefer another project than theirs.

Regardless, I think it is always worth mentioning competitors and related projects, either for the creator to get ideas from or to see how they can work to differentiate themselves.

Looking at the "Get Scheduling" page, I wondered when it was going to ask for my social media information.

That it worked by dedicated URL was not obvious because the text is small.

Fair point. The fact you don't have to log in or create an account is suppose to be one of it's big selling points, that should be more obvious.

Maybe 3 horizontal steps: |when|where|send this URL|

Sounds good.

This looks like the least fun way of getting your friends together. Is this for accountants?

Hasn't had any activity since 2011? Does it still work?

The blog hasn't seen any activity since then but the service is still used by a few hundred people daily.

Particularly useful with the holiday season approaching and everyone's social calendar getting busy.

"Warning Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains."

Isn't there a facebook app that allows you to do exactly this? Seems like it would be best to integrate this into Social Media so that people don't have to sign up for a new account to access events...

You don't need to sign up to use Meetifyr, it's all done via a unique url for each meet up (in fact there's no way to sign up).

For sure there are loads of alternatives, this hopefully strips it down to the basics. Think a semi-private, shared calendar amoungst friends.

New, bumpinTU!

Arrange an imrompTU, accurately-timed meeting at arbitrary GPS coordinates, whereby the participants will all converge and crash into each other due to staring down at their mobile devices.

I've got 503: Over Quota error message.

Oops, should be ok now.

Oh lord that design.

If you're thinking of building an app, for the love of god spend the money on a designer. It will help make you look like less of a joke.

This. And take away that Google Ads banner from the homepage.

It's a fair bet that a comment that begins with "Oh lord" and ends with "a joke" is breaking the Show HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest." -Perhaps I could have phrased this a bit better, but the design in its current state makes it hard to take it very seriously.

"Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine." -N/A

"Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more." -My suggestion was to hire a designer, which I hope they follow. However good an app is, without good design a lot of people won't take it seriously or consider it a professional product. This especially applies to non tech people, which is most people.

"When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative." It's not like I called it a piece of crap. The app may be fine. But at the same time I'm going to call a spade a spade. The current design makes it look extremely dated.

"Oh lord" is eye-rolling in written form, and "a joke" is not far off from "crap". These are the sort of things that "be respectful" and "don't be gratuitously negative" are asking you not to do.

I don't mean to pick on you personally. It's clear that you didn't mean to be rude. But casual disrespect poisons the discourse here and we all need to be careful about not doing that, especially about others' work.

Ironically when this site was built in 2011 a designer was used http://99designs.co.uk/web-design/contests/fast-growing-web-...

Let's just say it's not aged well.

You can see how the 'design' evolved here http://blog.meetifyr.com/2010/11/evolution-of-web-app.html

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