Show HN: HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life
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Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1].
HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this:
1) You search for people
2) You talk to them
3) You rate them
4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting
Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as you do. It's important to note that people don't get a global rating, so there won't be good and bad people. There will only be people who are more or less likely to find meeting each other worthwhile.
There are still many issues I have to work on. The biggest challenge I am currently facing is to get users in order to find out how people feel about HumanamuH. If you have any advice on how to "go viral", I'd be happy to listen.
[1] Why this name? Its slogan is "Where humans meet." therefore "Human" meets "Human" => "HumanamuH".
Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I would find likeminded people by chance on odd websites; I think that's become harder as I've grown older.
And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.
Of course, it's very hard to prevent any malicious use of the profile data.
Edit to add: I really love this idea, and am looking forward to seeing if it takes off!
One more suggestion: this is the kind of service that actually would really benefit from Facebook integration. You could take likes, photos, etc. to very quickly populate a profile instead of filling it out by hand.
I'll think about suggestions for the "intentions" field. However, I don't want to suggest something that will end up in most profiles. Priming is powerful.
I expected someone would bring up Facebook integration. :-)
As someone who doesn't use Facebook and who has some issues with it, I haven't even considered integrating it and I'm not sure how much the profile data would match. I don't intend HumanamuH to become an advertising column, so much for sure.
Can you suggest anything besides photos that would fit the current HumanamuH profile?
Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question.
I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to have a look without sharing your email address.
I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.
- Looking
- Orientation
- Gender
I realise it's all innocent, it just sets an odd tone.
I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?
At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.
Re "what it does" - might have been my Saturday morning slowness, but I completely missed the tour link/page.
You could do some tests on the landing page using http://fivesecondtest.com/ to see what others notice and understand there. Good luck!
I love that people get to post their intentions. Intentions mean people are doing things -- and can meet and help each other. This site is not for photosharing narcissists who are scared to venture outside their circle of friends, it's for adventurous people who want to meet more people to "enrich their lives" as the site says.
I'm excited to see HumanamuH take off, and I'm looking forward to using the "enriching" social network.
After reading online profiles, I often feel that I'm still missing something to decide whether I want to meet that person. Knowing about favorite movies or brands or whether someone is bad at describing himself, doesn't tell me much.
Do you have any suggestions what I could improve to make these emails pass?
You'll find a continuum of options for e-mail sending services. I'd pick the one that's most trusted within reason, not necessarily the "best deal." To me, it's an image thing: every time your e-mail ends in a Spam folder you let that user down a little. If they do find it, you've still disappointed them a little.
Currently, it's looking how similar your ratings are to the ratings of others. Similar people will influence your predictions more strongly.
The declared goals or intentions are currently not affecting predictions. And I'm doubtful if they should. Any opinion on this?
I'm leery of the idea of rating people and suspect this will just make explicit existing hierarchies.
My hope is that, given enough users, there will be many predictions across existing hierarchies.
Please let me know what was mysterious to you. (If it's not too mysterious for you to know...)
HumanamuH is not meant to be a dating site in particular. But I assume wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.
The possibility to state one's orientation and whether one is looking for a partner is there for at least two reasons.
If you don't want to date, you can make that clear upfront. Hopefully this will reduce unwanted requests.
If you want to date, it's easier for everyone involved if the orientation is known beforehand.
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
Can you elaborate what felt tedious to you?
HumanamuH is about meeting people right? Will people meet other people like they would in private life - friends, love etc, or like they would in their non-private/professional one?
There is a distinction between the two in the real world. So if I seek to meet people in a non-private mode with HumanamuH, which is what I thought was the point because of its design, I don't want to see any sexual things in it. In other words, I will not want to meet, let's say a software engineer, with a profile which say: "I'm not looking for a sexual partner right now.".
Concerning what's tedious to me, I think the precise thing is the splited registration process: first the email, then check it, and after I have to re-enter other informations. Maybe: enter register informations and then just check the email would be ok.
[edit: change/update professional by non-private]
Stating that one isn't looking is meant to allow people to discourage dating requests if they aren't interested. Some people would certainly love to tell all their co-workers that they weren't looking for a partnership upfront. :-)
With the registration process I wanted to make sure to have a valid email address of every user. Otherwise people might start using the site, forget their passwords and then ask me to give them access to their accounts in order to not lose their established contacts.
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It's not intended to be a dating site in particular. But I assume that wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.
By providing some fields like orientation and whether someone is looking for a partner, I hope to give people who don't want to date a way to make that clear upfront. And those who want to date a way to make it clear what they are looking for.
If, for example, someone is in a partnership and not interested in dating, it's possible to add this info to his or her user profile. Hopefully this will minimize dating requests for them.