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Review my app: FoodFyt, FaceMash for food

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Great website! I just lost 20 minutes of my life rating food to then die in even to eat many of them. I think it is therefore a mission success!

I think a great concept you could add would be a food fight mode where you create your own fight between two image you added and can send a link to it. This would be great when two person argue about who cooked better or what tastes better between two thing. It would be a simple way to incorporate the classic human fight over two meal with a fun tool to get a result out the fight.

Thanks! Great idea! allowing users to create custom pairs of photo and allow to share them is on the upcoming features list, and perhaps a facebook app would suit this purpose.

Very nice design.

One request: keyboard shortcuts.

If you'd like people to play a bunch (and I imagine you would), this would be a nice touch.

true, will add this by today or tomorrow

Pretty cool! Noticed a possible bug though. Mouseover the left image gives me a vote url param of r and right image param yields l. Could cause some weird reports for ya if you hadn't noticed.

Interesting idea. It would be a lot more valuable with a domain name that a potential user could spell after hearing it mentioned to them.

Also - A caption for each submission would be huge.

that's the best domain name that I could think of at the time. As for the caption, I'm not sure yet... I'm still trying to see if I can pull the photo comment from Instagram.

Looks cool. You could do better with displaying the results like this site - http://www.thematchinggame.com/

bar grahps is definitely a more powerful visual cue... will see when I can add it, thanks for the idea!

Not just the type of graph but the fact that you don't have to scroll down to see the results. I didn't notice the results until I scrolled by mistake. If you have to keep scrolling up and down, it's annoying.

true! we could improve that by saving some of the spaces in the design to bring above the fold, will do that right away!

I think it's becoming the norm for these comparison sites to use the 1 and 2 keys to select between the two choices. You don't have it, I was disappoint.

you're absolutely right! it was a weekend project of sorts, so we didn't have time to add everything we wanted to see

hey question, how did you overcome the network effect problem, since for voting games like these to be 'fun', would require a pool of 'items' to be in the universe.

Thank you for not calling it a "startup." I like the site!

can't call a weekend project a startup!

That's awesome, thank you!

Would love to be able to sign in via Instagram and add my images.

Thought about this, but if we open it up to users some of them may upload photos that are not about food, right? Or maybe we can do some moderation before including them, or even allow users to weed out non-food photos.

There's your problem right there. If I can't upload my photos and compare them to others and be judged, then I have no use for the service.

There are solutions to this problem, but censuring, controlling or impeding user contributions is not one of them.

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