Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

[alexjeffrey]

I was enthralled until you asked me to create an account - I have so many accounts online that I really don't want to have to remember yet another password (or compromise my security by reusing one). Is forcing account creation key to the core functionality?

Also, I'd be wary of signing up with Facebook for a job-search app - while I'm not actually looking for a new job, if I were that'd put me off in case you posted a notification to my wall.

[drdoctrine]

Thanks for the feedback! The overall goal of the platform is to connect talents with interesting companies. Especially for huge companies it is often hard to find suitable candidates. If you wouldn't register they couldn't reach out to you at a later point.

You are right about facebook! That's exactly why we choose to implemenent the mannual signup option without facebook. But we do respect the privacy of our users very much! We never post on any walls or something. In our the privacy settings you can furthermore control the visibility of every single field on your profile.

[jasonhanley]

Have you considered offering a LinkedIn signup option?

I think most people would be ok using that for something career-oriented.

[masukomi]

so, let me translate that:

I've realized that password security is important, but instead of using any of the myriad password management tools out there I've decided to stop signing up for new things on the web. Please compensate for my lack of action. Also, i realize you have this easy Facebook signup thing, but Facebook is notoriously bad about privacy and apps frequently do things I don't want them to. As I've shown that I'm not an idiot by knowing that password security is important, it is not surprising to think that I, and other non-idiots, don't want to hook our facebook accounts to job hunting sites just to check them out. The consequences could be horrendous.

[xmpir]

you could use the facebook sign-up...

[klapinat0r]

Hmm, it doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome, Windows atm.): http://i.imgur.com/Z9aojGD.png

If I just choose randomly and click Continue the next screen is the same.

> <label class="radio"> > <input value="342" name="answer" type="radio"> > </label>

While they do have values (e.g. 342), I have no idea what they're suppose to represent.

There are no javascript errors.

[drdoctrine]

Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?

[martin-adams]

Nice UI, but you lost my focus after filling out the initial questions with the:

"I have read the terms and conditions of membership and the privacy policy and agree with the content."

I clicked on one of the embedded links, such as the terms and I lost the page I was looking at. Pressing back then reset everything. However, if I click the logo it looks like its restored. I'd say open in new window or have a dialog.

[martin-adams]

Also, why do you need a date of birth?

[ubersoldat2k7]

Nice UI. What does those button at the landing page mean? I was there expecting for a hint to come up from any of the buttons. Then, for some reason, I didn't get what I think were questions since after the "tutorial" (really nice) that part was all white with only the radio buttons.

[xmpir]

seems you're having the same problem as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5456874

[josephpmay]

Looks great!

A couple of things:

1) The blue background in the "They are already in" section of the website is flickering on my laptop (13" non-retina MPB).

2) Why do you need so much information from my Facebook login? I understand Email and profile information, but why photos, status updates, and friends' profile information?

[drdoctrine]

We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.

[DGCA]

In the assessment, 'help' and 'next' should be farther apart, different colors, maybe in different places, and definitely bigger.

EDIT: And I get really turned off when I have to spam my friends with requests, so thanks for giving me the option not to.

EDIT2: This assessment is painfully long.

[xmpir]

I wonder if the companies that "match" me know about their participation in the project...

[magicmarkker]

Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.

[drdoctrine]

The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: [email protected]

[magicmarkker]

Also there is no way to delete my account.

[codegeek]

agreed. I tried searching New York but i get some town "New owen" ? in Kentucky.

[xmpir]

for me it works - even though it is very slow...

[allsystemsgo]

I'd be interested if this site showed me how to get to a dream job. I'm by no means ready for my dream job, and I'm taking what I think are the correct steps to get to that dream job, but I'm not sure...

[drdoctrine]

The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"

[PebblesRox]

I'm able to choose my location once I type it in, but when I click it just goes back to the loading... message. I can't get it to load and it won't let me continue otherwise.

[PebblesRox]

Oh, I just noticed that it was listed a second time in the drop-down and when I choose the lower one it worked. Yay, now I get to explore the website!

[PebblesRox]

I imported data from facebook but the button still says skip. I think it's done but I can't tell. I'll push the skip button but hopefully it doesn't actually skip anything.

[nicvee]

Great job guys! I really like the layout and the clear structure of the submenus. I´m curious if you come out on top!

[drdoctrine]

Thank you very much! This means a lot to us! Hehe we thought about that, but we are not participating in the company matching.. ;)

[Mindphreaker]

I really like the look and feel of your frontpage! The "retina ready" badge on the right side made me chuckle.. ^^

[kevinastock]

In level 9 rank (among contacts and global) is shown, but percentile would be more interesting.

[mabid]

seems to be down at the moment I am getting

Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.

[xmpir]

the adress for google is a small sales office in vienna. the adress for microsoft is the headquarters in redmond.

however those are my best-matching companies - sounds legit.

[visavis]

still skeptical, but looking forward to this. Like the functionality n design. Could ease a lot of things for me...keep on going guys

[AndreasLuckey]

awesome page! I'm sure it is going to make an impact on the online job-application process! What do you guys say?