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Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Thursday May 17, 2007 @08:49PM (#22929)
I thought id share with you guys... feedback is very much appreciated... Im taking the weekend off

http://www.theother9to5.com/

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by danw on Friday May 18, 2007 @01:32AM (#22965)
Im taking the weekend off

I've learnt from experience that you should take the time off before shipping the app. That way you're there to gather the feedback, do the bugfixes. Then try to do a second release within a week with a few little extra features that have been requested to show the community you listen to them.

Nice site, keep up the good work.

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:08AM (#23026)
There was a lot more half baked features i took out cause i just wanted to put the site up with minimal bugs... U guys are the first people to see it
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @10:00AM (#23061)
thanks!
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @10:01AM (#23062)
Sorry i meant time off from coding.. i'll still be here gathering feedback
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by staunch on Friday May 18, 2007 @12:29AM (#22956)
+ The comments count ("5 comments") isn't a link to the comments, unlike most sites, so that's unintuitive.

+ The error message "Phrase Erorr!" had me cracking up because I'm pretending it's intentional?

+ Everything is a bit too dark for this computer's dimming LCD.

+ Signup text inputs should probably have a maxlength attribute to reduce resubmissions. Not for security of course. It'd be neat if signup was identical to the way login works.

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:23AM (#23030)
- comments link will be implemented

- i need to hire a witty copywriter

- i will bump up the contrast

- will add maxlenght to text input

sorry my replys sound short... Im reading and replying on my mobile phone

thank you very much for the feedback!

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by sethjohn on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:52AM (#23040)
I'm sick and tired of Reddit-knockoff social vote-on-something sites, the idea is simplistic and derivative, I can't imagine taking advice from 14 year old internet trolls about what I should do with my time...

...and yet, for reasons I can't fully explain, I really liked it! It's simple, local, and with the opportunity for vicarious thrills imagning other's experiences...

My only suggestion is that a site like this (more than Reddit/Digg/YCnews/etc) would benefit from having multiple different groups or interests to filter with. Maybe front page is most popular events all around, but you can filter the list to show only the most popular events by music, or bicycling, etc.

Nice work, looks like it could become something great.

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @09:43PM (#23187)
thanks!
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by gyro_robo on Friday May 18, 2007 @07:01PM (#23168)
I see event #2 is "Drinking beer". So in the "Search for events" I type "beer".

Sorry we didn't understand what you meant by search for events beer, try using "in beer"

So I search for "in beer".

Search result "for events in beer" yeilded 0 match(es)

Keep working on it.

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:05PM (#23178)
I took out the "with" command... For some reason but should work within a couple hours if you type "with beer"
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @09:35PM (#23184)
"with beer" now works
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by gyro_robo on Saturday May 19, 2007 @03:56PM (#23261)
"with" is a broken idea. It should be implied. Scrap "with" and make keywords work by themselves.
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Sunday May 20, 2007 @03:26PM (#23435)
i cant differentiate between a venue or a keyword in the description of the event without a predecessor to what the user is searching for. I understand that users are used to using a search query by typing a keyword and relevant results come up. but i've used a different approach... by typing a phrase as you would say it when filling the blank "Search for events __________"...
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by gyro_robo on Monday May 21, 2007 @09:36PM (#23758)
It doesn't have to discriminate between an "in" or a "with" -- I'll do that. When I type "beer", and it gives me no results instead of everything with "beer" in it, it's broken.

When I type in the FULL title and it gives me zero results, it's broken. The first upcoming event is "Block party", and neither that, nor "block", nor "party" yield results.

I don't want "in" party or "with" party, I want everything that says "party".

> I understand that users are used to using a search query by typing a keyword and relevant results come up

Yes, so if your site doesn't work that way, guess what's broken? Hint: It's not the users.

Including "with" or "in" as an extra feature is one thing, but requiring it just makes it look like your site's broken.

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by andreyf on Friday May 18, 2007 @07:58PM (#23175)
Would be nice if there was a way to filter by just one city... NYC, for example. Maybe make it like craigslist?
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @09:43PM (#23186)
i was thinking about that... in the form of nyc.theother9to5.com... i could implement that in no time
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by zaatar on Thursday May 17, 2007 @11:28PM (#22950)
Please consider supporting OpenID logins.
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:24AM (#23031)
Will do... And probably will in addition to the regular login
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by leisuresuit on Friday May 18, 2007 @03:03AM (#22988)
Cool. Did you use web.py to make this?
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:18AM (#23029)
Nope... Java (please dont stone me)
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by jsjenkins168 on Friday May 18, 2007 @10:21AM (#23063)
Hmm.. Looks like GWT?
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by natrius on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:42AM (#22981)
Why would someone use this instead of Facebook or upcoming?
Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by immad on Friday May 18, 2007 @05:25AM (#23007)
I am guessing because fb is limited to private events generally and upcoming is still only really used by tech demographic (at least in London) and doesn't have a digg/reddit like voting structure.

I am also thinking he only did this idea to learn and test it out rather than as a serious business venture but then he should still have done a more unique concept since their are plenty out there....

Re:Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... thi... by twism on Friday May 18, 2007 @08:16AM (#23028)
Its supposed to be really fast and to the point to find events posted not by olny organizations, But events posted by individuals who are in the know....djs, bartenders, event promoters, etc... or if a you and/or a group of friends are hitting up a local bar or restaurant