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X factors love child with 'Hot or Not' = this beta baby right here

youcover.me

18 pointsNik_Adhia23 comments

For anyone else as confused as me, the headline should be parsed as follows:

  "The X Factor" had a love-child with "Hot or Not", and this site is the result.

Sorry for the confusion! We did happen to think a beta baby was quite cool ;-)

We built this in the Entrepreneur First (http://www.entrepreneurfirst.org) hackathon over the weekend in 24 hours, we'd love some feedback, suggestions, comments, critique on this! Do please share this amongst your networks but we'd more so like some comments on this :)

Maybe look over this thread earlier today - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3794885 which may give you some quick design ideas

In terms of functionality, its pretty damn cool!

Yup we're still working on the design, it's still early stages, it was the functionality we focused on in the 24 hours ;-) if there is anything in the functionality you think could be improved or any particular design elements you feel we could enhance, let us know - also thanks for the share for the thread! that's a great article mcdowall

Nice site! It would be awesome to have a page for browsing all of the covers sorted by votes (more than just the best/worst 10).

Also, it would be great if there was a way to create an account and track what videos you had voted for - there's some good covers out there.

Great suggestion for the accounts, that's something we really do need to look into so we can give people a lot more feedback on they have voted for and how they're voted covers are doing!

I would hide the current votes of the paired videos before the user votes on them. (with maybe the option of seeing the scores but without being able to vote afterwards) I'd think it would influence one's vote.

Hey Timothee,

We literally just got the exact feedback from someone else - we are working on that now, thanks for flagging that up, I think you're right, it would influence someone's vote so we're working on how to hide that!

Hey Timothee we have just updated it - check out youcover.me to see the change :)

I thought this was gonna be Hot or Not for babies such as Cute or Not =(

Haha that could definitely be the next step in our pipeline ;=)

Nginx 502 Bad Gateway. Upgrade that Rackspace VM!

We're on it! We're getting so many requests, we're sorting that now - thanks for flagging it up!

Awesome job guys. AMAZING. ALready addicted:)

it is so tempting to press get another cover ;p

+1 :)

Love this site..

Awesome adajervis! :) If you have any feedback, comments anything we could improve, what you hate, whatever it is, we'd love to hear it so we can improve the experience

Too many words, not enough pictures. I have to read to browse the site currently, lots of actual parsing, whereas while looking for music I want to just have a head-space of "picture of lips" = "rolling stones" as I spin through the list. Please add image-clouds and a nice fast way to see whats moving in the lists and whats not.

Do you mean too many words in the actual Leaderboard list? SO essentially images moving up and down for the leaderboard list instead of text?

Yes I mean at the main web site, 'tis a huge word cloud, albeit un-sorted/categorized. If you for example could put pictures that indicate the artists (of the original song being covered) it might help.

wow!

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