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Comment by transmit101 | Hacker News Reader

Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them.

This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this.

But why not give it a miss, and focus on what you're doing in your life instead of on what other people think of you. Especially when they don't even have the courage to say it to your face.

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Well, sometimes there is something that only other people can see. I think there are some opinions about my traits that I happily ignore, I know what's best for me, but certain things about me bother me, not just others. Particularly, being somewhat anxiety prone, things like, "am I worrying about this too much or not enough?".

I'm actually quite glad this is up, I'd considered that something like it would be useful.

EDIT: Oh wait I got it all wrong. This is asking your friends for anonymous feedback? Yikes, no, I don't want to hear what they have to say. I thought this was an anonymous Q/A thing. Like Vark for personality flaws.

There is a saying that every man is a coin viewed from a fixed position. The face of himself that he sees no one else can see, likewise, he sees the face of everyone else that they cannot see. And thus, no man knows another as that other believes himself to be.

You should write that on the creator's failin.gs.

Creators'. And noted ;)

If the general internet public liked amihotornot.com, they will probably like this site.

On the other hand, I think its only flaws are the absence of pictures and easy buttons and the login requirement. Fewer people want to take the time to actually type something out, and it is as likely they have already posted their opinion of someone in twitter if they are going to type it at all. With the login requirement, it is a lot less accessible for the critic and the critiqued.

The site is in very, very early beta. It's a side-project with a friend, but we're trying to work on features as we can. Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth are high on the list, but so far, users have had enough of an attention span to meet our requirements :)

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