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by theseoafs 4525 days ago
> Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours

... and it shows. What an overwhelmingly sloppy, poorly executed site. I took the first few questions of a quiz about Chicago; rather than having me "explore" the city's culinary offerings, it just blasted me with a bunch of questions I couldn't possibly answer about a restaurant I've never heard of before. A number of the questions were unanswerable (all of the questions had duplicate answers), and all of its knowledge about local restaurants is obviously pulled sloppily from Yelp's API (it offered such scintillating questions as "which Yelp review corresponds to this restaurant you've never heard of?" and "which picture, pulled from Yelp, is of a dish served at this restaurant you've never heard of?").

The idea is neat but this website is awful.

1 comments

The above comment is really harsh, discouraging, and rude. But I agree with most of it.

I don't think you should brag about how little time you spent on anything. Nor should it be used as an excuse for a half-baked product.

There is a nugget of a good idea in there somewhere. I think it might be worth another 10 hours to really find the goodness here and then spend the time to build something people will actually love.