cubeduel
Consumer and social
professional reputation game
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
6 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and highly addictive
From 3 comments
Great work Tony! This is highly addictive and made me informed on what some of my past colleagues are up to. Apparently an old classmate decided to ditch programming and become a…
PStamatiou on HNHa! A politically correct hot or not. I found it incredibly easy to get started and quite addicting actually. Before I knew it I had voted on over 30 co-workers.
nihaar on HNSame here ... very easy to get started ... and kind of addicting ... not "Angry Birds"-addicting, but addicting none-the-less. Get some ads up there and monetize!
rman666 on HN
Fantastic welcome page
From 1 comment
Absolutely fantastic welcome page, I got it immediately
dickeytk on HN
Objections
Could hurt feelings and relationships among coworkers
From 2 comments
Talk about sowing the seeds of discord. Running your coworkers, particularly if they're your friends through a series of forced choice tasks and then displaying the results…
knowtheory on HNFun project. But highly concerning if it gains real traction -- As a general rule, people are only on my LinkedIn profile if I already think they are good to work with. This site…
synnik on HN
Privacy concerns about LinkedIn login and vote visibility
From 2 comments
My future career may depend on what's on my LinkedIn profile. It terrifies me to think of logging in to a 'game' with my LinkedIn ID.
dholowiski on HNHmm, it seems coworkers might be able to infer who voted against them if only one person in their office has voted. What sort of protections do you have against this?
tlrobinson on HN
Site went down under traffic after TechCrunch coverage
From 2 comments
Enough to kill off the site, it looks like...
aaronbrethorst on HNTechCrunch drives a bunch of traffic, generally, especially something like Cubeduel that plays well to that crowd. We're somewhat insulated in that many people lack LinkedIn…
gurgeous on HN
Requests
Use an Elo or TrueSkill-style rating instead of win percentage
From 2 comments
Suggestion: ratings should be based on some kind of logistic model (like Elo ratings for chess) instead of the percentage of duels won. e.g., feed the scoring history into…
a1k0n on HNI've heard Microsoft's freely published TrueSkill algorithm is good. There are some libraries to calculate it out there already.
roryokane on HN
Avoid repeat duels between the same people
From 1 comment
Still, wouldn't it be better to not do repeat votes? Easy enough to do a query to see if a duel's already been done between 2 folks, though I wonder if that would cause too much…
PakG1 on HN
Questions
Will the app be open-sourced?
From 1 comment
Do you plan on open-sourcing the app?
icco on HN
How the duel pairing algorithm works
From 1 comment
What's the gaming algo you are using to decide who to duel against whom? I'm assuming your not simply randomly displaying pairs from the same company N number of times? Do…
Mrblankman on HN
Alternatives named
Hot or Not
From 1 comment
I had a lot of fun with this. That being said, I do wonder if LinkedIn is the right venue. The premise is very similar to something like "hot-or-not," and I'm just not sure that…
jroes on HN
Facemash
From 1 comment
It's Facemash for the office.
ryanpetrich on HN