I thought the point was to share favorite pizza places, don't chains just add noise? If anybody's favorite pizza place is Pizza Hut or Dominoes, I feel extremely sorry for them.
Re:Pizzashare
by misterbwong on Thursday February 19, 2009 @07:13PM
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I feel the same way, but users are already sharing chains as their favorites, so I thought it would make for a better user experience. Since users are already sharing these chains, the fact that these stores are being added shouldn't signal their quality, the votes should.
Example: I put in 92602 (Irvine in OC). Only two pizza stores popped up-both chains (Little Caesars & Round Table) and both >8 mi from the middle of 92602. As a user, this is an immediate turn off because the app isn't helping me find great pizza places. It is only showing me pizza places that I know about-ones that are far from me to boot. I know for a fact that there is a Round Table Pizza that is much closer than the one mapped.
To combat this, you might want to load up some data programmatically so that you have a baseline (scraping PizzaHut.com or Dominoes.com would be a start). Users can then add to your base data set as well as vote up ("share") places that already exist.