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socialflavor.com

10 pointsmissmelon15 comments

Just launched and still in beta. The purpose of Socialflavor is to help you easily find other others who like the same stuff you do.

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I didn't get past the login screen because I was really turned off by your app wanting access to my facebook photos. I might be an outlier though, it seems like the younger generation is much freer with their private info.

I agree with this comment - as a general rule, I'll only share my personal information if the application is extremely compelling. Unfortunately, I can't figure out enough about what your app does to decide if it is compelling!

Hi Miss Melon!

With this kind of thing, your most important question is, "How am I gonna make the user say 'ooh, that's cool!'?" When you have that answered, it makes everything else easier. Your whole app becomes a direct path to your user's personalized "ooh cool!" moment. Your front page shows a 1-2-3-ooh-cool! sequence.

It sounds like you're trying to help your users find people that like the same stuff they do. The idea has got potential, but there's no "ooh cool!" moment in this app yet. It'd be "ooh cool!" if I was somehow having a beer with the five users that shared my interests, but my options for hanging out with them are kinda limited.

One idea that occurs to me is to tell your users "I bet you'd like xyz!" where xyz is a song or a piece of art or what have you. Then you could have them say "Yup!" or "No, that sucks". This little interaction could be tied back to the people that liked xyz, and they could be informed of it when it turns out well. This has two potential "ooh cool!" moments: a user sees something new, and if he likes it and clicks that button, then other users are somehow informed that others like their tastes.

Other misc notes: normalize shared likes by total # of likes, make "follow" buttons more prominent, and make the pages less static (some kind of live activity update would be good).

Good luck! -Shawn

I'm at socialflavor.com but I'm being asked to log in with Facebook. Immediately suspicious as to why a non facebook site is asking for a facebook login. Did not click anything. Tab closed.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to explain what it is you are doing, and why you are asking for facebook login. Personally I'd still abandon the site, but others might be comfortable with it.

Okay - I don't see why. I already have Facebook thus the people I'm connecting to on Facebook fit the "People who like what I like" bill to a certain degree (generally).

You need something more than just the static graphic I saw to get me to try.

If it matters, I'm running FF w/ Noscript. You might have had some fancy JS-based or Flash-based something or other that I didn't see.

We found that Facebook doesn't make it too easy to find people who like the same things you do - even if they are your friends. We definitely want to have a more animated image which will reflect multiple "likes" and not just vampire movies. Thanks for you feedback.

Content discovery is something with loads of room for improvement. You just need to convince me that you've improved it. A major unanswered question is whether it will help at all with discovering people who are not also users of your service. Another is what I need to do to use your service. "Log in and I'll tell you" will lead to a high bounce rate.

It would also help to inform users as to how the process affects them - and their personal data, their account, and what nuisance factors it will introduce to their routine. This does not need to be extensive, it just needs to be there given rampant abuse on Facebook's platform in these areas.

I checked it with and without JS. All you get is a static image about finding people who like vampire movies. It would appear to be a Facebook for current Facebook users who like vampire movies.

Thanks for your feedback - our goal with the vampire image is for it to be an example of the capability vs. the focus of the site. As mentioned, we'll get some new interests rotating through :)

Agree that you need to tell us what the website is about. Your home page should be information selling me on your service — enough to convince me to login through Facebook and allow you to access my personal information.

Interesting concept. I don't really use Facebook for connecting with similar people though ... if you did something like this for G+ it would be cool though :)

My first reaction is that I'm pleased it's in English. Beyond that, it's potentially a cool play. Like a dating site but on a platonic and social, not interpersonal level.

It might be the best way to find your next business partner or permanent friend.

Honestly I tried it - not a huge fan of it. Really is no point to this site - it's a cool tool, but why do i care if i have this or not? If you took this tool out of my life - would I miss it? That's the question you should ask yourself.

This appears to be similar to overlap.me, you should take a look at it.

First of all, your home page doesn't really tell me much. As a user, I don't really get whats in it for me - you need to tell me whats in it for me to make me signup.

My impressions of your service, is that I signup and discover information about my Facebook friends. However, I know all my facebook friends personally so I don't need to discover information about them.

I'm pretty sure that isn't what your service is about - well at least I hope its not!

Either way, you need to explain what your service is, instead of a static graphic on the home page which, doesn't really convey your message.

Secondly, I had a look at your about page & looked at your team pages (fortunately they linked to their profiles instead of some form of bio) but this is where I came across another issue

For instance: Let's use Adam Cross as an example.

To view Adam Cross' profile you HAVE to go to - http://socialflavor.com/adam.cross/m454e528b-b3be-4165-8af9-... instead of http://socialflavor.com/adam.cross/ as this shows "Huh? What Happened?" that isn't great for sharing with my friends etc because, when they go whats your username, I'll say "profitbaron" & I don't want to say profitbaron/this-shouldn't-be-here

Additionally, when I clicked on stuff it never did anything, it just said "Please Wait" for a second but then didn't load anything. You need to fix that too because, its not only your registered users you need to look after (I'm assuming this works for registered users, I haven't signed up for your service) its your non-registered users too!

You're an asshole. Don't ask me to check out your website, and make me login with facebook and then send me to a beta program limited page. Deleting in FB and marking as spam. Your homepage is junk, like everyone else is saying you give no reason for anyone to use it, and if you didn't know you can click on an interest in facebook and see all the people that comment and figure it out. Sucks.

Message after login "Thank you for your interest in Socialflavor! Space in our beta program is limited."

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