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Ask HN: Review my website (dog owners)

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http://mydogbarks.com

Website where you can upload the picture and the bark sound of your dog. Every dog has a public profile with some data.

I'm looking for feedback from dog owners regarding features that I could add to make it more interesting.

Would be cool to allow people to assign a hot-key to a selection of barks, so they could create a soundboard of barks.

Other simple things would be "visualize this bark" where you have an audio waveform display of the bark (this has got to be easy to do programmatically) and possibly also a mechanism to categorize the barks by pitch or note. Then a user could find a dog with a deeper (or yippier) bark.

Could you explain what you mean by a hot-key to select the barks? I think, regarding the barks, there's a huge setback. People don't have the sound of the bark and don't know how to record it. But you gave me an idea. I could have some types of barks predefined and people could choose the one that is most likely to be their dog's. What do you think?

Cool site. You need more content about the site and what it is (as mentioned already). Also the email link on the bottom right is broken. Perhaps you can expand the detail on the dog's profile - favorite treats, likes/dislikes etc. I think dog-owners would enjoy this information.

You're right. The site lacks information and the dog profile lacks other info too. Thank you. The e-mail at the bottom of the page links to a php file that redirects to a "mailto:" link. I did it that way to prevent spam. Maybe I did it wrong but I don't know other way to protect me from spam .

You could add an "about us" page describing the point of this web app. What is the problem you're trying to solve? Or, is this a "just because" app you coded for fun?

Maybe change the copyright year to 2011. I'm pretty it's 2011 everywhere on the globe by now :-)

I guess it is. Happy new year! About the "About us" you're right. People usually complain that they don't know what's the point of the website ;)

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