Introducing Facing.me

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14 points·ryannielsen··8 comments

Cool concept. It might be a lot more useful if you get as many users as possible as quickly as possible (i.e. no invites), and if you add a feature to sort by location...

I think the invites are better in this case. The author made a similar point of Google+. Essentially, by not letting anyone in right now, and only having invites. That means no one can come in now and see it as a barren wasteland.

When they send out the invites, they'll probably send it to all the people who registered at the same time (hopefully a lot by that time) and when they all join on at once, they all see each other online. No wasteland problem.

Seems like a good solution to me.

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense. Okay, let's have my previous post read "all that's left is to add a feature to sort by location" :)

Cool idea, but the words "minimal viable product" usually aren't followed up by "As a result, we can have a photo grow a picture frame as you pick it up, and then flip it around to show a person's full profile. This careful choreography involves animating about a dozen CSS properties, including borders, shadows, margins and 3D transforms, all with custom expressions and hand-tuned animation curves. Similar transitions are used for lightbox dialogs".

Functionality is minimal, execution is polished. It's not so much a contradiction, just a separation of concerns.

And you could argue that in a crowded market, polished execution is in fact required to be viable.

How do you avoid the chatroulette problem?

This looks pretty awesome - if only because of the slick design and UI elements. :)

Won't it end up being hell for good-looking girls/women?

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