Ask HN: Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos)

5 points by kalendae 16 years ago | 9 comments

Site: www.elograde.com

Hi all, long time lurker and a YC interviewee reject here looking for some help =)

I believe I have come up with a way to objectively rate photos so that the rating is consistent and accurate and where different ratings have meaningful distances between them.

The general idea is to rate others' so that yours will be rated, but instead of actually rating, you compare photos against each other instead, and then win/losses are treated like games using the Elo rating system (like chess ratings or WoW arena ratings and so on) Then based on the ratings theres an additional tiered rank (trying for like a blackbelt or grandmaster type feel).

I would appreciate any feedback on the app, thanks

icey 16 years ago |

I'm looking at it now, but I'm not sure what some of these things mean.

  Your photo priority is 2 and you have 9 credits.

What does photo priority mean? What can I do with the credits?

What is your target audience for this? The verbiage is very technical across all of the pages, and I couldn't see anyone who wasn't technical really understand what's going on.

The voting functionality works all the ways I would expect it to - the buttons at the bottom of the photos or clicking on the photo I liked best both worked. The keyboard interface was a nice touch. It's clear that you've spent a lot of time thinking about how the voting would work.

I did have some problems with the navigation. It didn't feel very well considered, and I didn't like having to go back to the front page in order to get back to the main menu options. It would have been nice to have a navigation bar somewhere that would let me jump to all of the major sections.

kalendae 16 years ago | |

thanks, its hard to see that as the developer. target audience are people who want to get a rating for their photograph online. my thought is that the ratings u get tend to be very subjective so there might be a need for an objective rating. the nav bar while voting is a great observation, right now one does seem kind of stuck on that page.

icey 16 years ago |

Is there any way to try this out without registering?

If not, do you have a demo account we could use?

kalendae 16 years ago | |

Hi, i created an account hnlogin / hnlogin if you do not feel like signing up.

i will think about what interactions there can be without signing up.

dabent 16 years ago |

Clickable: http://www.elograde.com/

jacquesm 16 years ago |

http://likebetter.com/

kalendae 16 years ago | |

thanks for the link, i hadn't run across it til now. google has a game thats similar also called matchin (http://www.gwap.com/gwap/gamesPreview/matchin) is likebetter still maintained? i wasn't able to sign up. i wanted to see if what kind of rating they give the photo.

jacquesm 16 years ago | | |

It's a YC company, and a possible reason for your rejection. After all the ideas are pretty similar.

Probably, before pitching to a VC/incubator it would be good to know who they've already invested in.