How about a basic API (make comments/votes/users available as JSON objects) so people can build different filters and see what works?

Looks like Wave :)

Yeah, funnily enough, at the beginning when he is naming all the other collaboration tools out there (including google docs) he doesn't mention Wave....

He mentions Google Wave as “Jack of all trades, master of none,” and say that their application will focus on project management.

I've just worked out that the sprites represent recent tweets! Click the sprite to see the tweet. Tweets containing ":)" become white sprites.

I made this into an easy-to-follow Twitter list: http://twitter.com/DHS/telegraph-top-investors

Awesome story - well played! :)

The model has been around for a while - you should give it a go! Your execution will be different and could be more successful. You'll learn a ton in the process too.

I remember an email version of this app about 10 years ago - I loved it for a bit surreptitious flirting at school!

The app looks really great and the signup process is straightforward with clear CTAs. Alas the FB integration makes it rather slow (maybe I have too many friends? ;). It seems to loads friends each time I open the page - could this not be cached? It took me a moment to realise the grey box was a friend selector; it might help to make it white and give it focus on page load. It couldn't seem to grab my girlfriend's email address and asked me to type it in (making me wonder why integrate with FB at all).

There's no way for me to share content on either FB or Twitter. I'd be happy to post to my wall (and tweet) that "I just adored someone with adore.ly".

If you're trying to build up UGC then I'd happily rate a few anonymous adores and I'd be interested to see the wittiest/cutest ones.

For user retention, consider email updates: 1. thank you for signing up, 2. thank you for sending your first adore, 3. it's been a few days, time to send another adore? And for the receiver: sending a second (and third) email a week or two later if they haven't clicked through to the site. The option to opt-out of emails is important but the granularity of notifications settings looks good. I also hope you have a Valentine's day promotion lined up!

I'd forget about making money until you have say ten thousand users and I'd remove the limit of three adores until then too. Then I'd limit adores (to 5) and users could unlock more adores using a platform like SuperRewards or FB credits.

If my girlfriend 'adores' me back then I'll get back with what happens...

Hey,

Initially, we had a "wall posting" feature. User signs up via facebook and it will give them an option to post on their wall. However, I realized that if we require wall posting permission right up the front, that would really put off a lot of people. You see facebook doesn't allow us to change permission half way and this is one of the drawbacks of the facebook API (even if you like it, you can't force a permission change).

This is very interesting. We didn't want to post to wall because I personally don't like posting much up there but obviously, if we did, its more content for us and some people wouldn't mind. So I agree, maybe that option should be provided.

I like the idea of email notifications but we are worried about spam. This is something we struggle with everyday in our brainstorming sessions.

Thanks for the points! :)

Congratulations on the funding too! I remember trying this out when you floated it on HN a while ago. Nice one!

Thanks! The quality of feedback I got from my Ask HN post back in July was pretty incredible.

Since then I've spoken to a number of regular HNers who continue to use the product and provide feedback and again, been bowled over by just how helpful people are.

Great to hear! :)

Looks familiar!

It's a trap!