Ask HN: Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine
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-Improve graphics a lot: Nice theme, Icons, highlighted prices and why not a small preview screenshot directly in the search results so that i don't need to open all the app singularly?
-Reduce results. If i'm searching an app and you simply return all the google market results why shouldn't i use the market directly?
You should calculate your own results based on vote/downloads/manual_pick and maybe highlight new apps(that may be worthwhile but have still not enough votes/downloads).
- Make it easy to download, QR-Code easily accessible.
Along those lines: I'm implementing a "Staff Pick" feature triggered by keywords (Pandora is suggested when "music" is searched for).
Reducing results is an interesting idea. Based on my initial feedback from users, they seem to be happier the more results I show them. In fact they judge the quality of the search engine by how many pages of results it shows for a given query. Perhaps it's a presentation issue and I can try striking a balance somewhat.
Using whitespace to separate them (or a thin blue line, like the google sidebar ads) may help. Icons would brighten the design too.
It's difficult to scan the list and look at prices because they are not aligned.
I would suggest and icon in a column on the left, with the stars (rating) and price below it, then the name, description, and links on the right.
Would showing app icons for each result change that first impression, do you think? (for you). I'm just asking myself what value an icon would add to a search result.