omNOMinators
Team Members
- GMoney
- dedguy
- ambethia
- madcowley
What
You want to go eat with some friends, co-workers or minions. You don't want to play Restaurant Mussolini, though (does everyone crave fried alligator toes?)
Enter the Omnominator:
* Pick restaurants from our yelp-powered map (or add your faves).
* We'll e-mail everyone and track the results.
* Go have fried alligator toes with the reassurance that everyone else is as weird as you.
It's time to eat! Om nom nom nom...
Where
- Entry URL:
http://omnominator.r09.railsrumble.com
How
* Yelp! API
* Google JS API (maps)
* jQuery, jRails, plugins (templates, flash messages, inline labels)
* rspec + rspec-rails
* Guid gem
* Gravatar gem
* Adobe Illustrator
* Wacom tablets
* some MacBook Pros and iMacs
Comments
great job
To our friends outside of the US – we chose the yelp api as it was easy to get the prototype working in a weekend. Unfortunately it doesn’t have as wide coverage internationally as we’d like, but as we move the app forward we definitely want to make it more usable elsewhere. Apologies for the inconvenience!
I like the idea, love the graphics, but it doesn’t seem to work in Belgium. :(
I LOVE THIS IDEA! Very cutely done and something very useful. I don’t have much experience using yelp, but this thing looks awesome. Great embedded map and good idea for voting for food. Since noone has any idea what they want to eat. ;) Great job!
Fun and useful.
Great usefulness, attractive design but I think overall too cutesy.
The tilted CSS on the right panel was a real WOW factor for me at first, but when you actually go in to use the app it becomes slightly annoying.
Execution is done well, although I think the map could be done larger. I understand you tried to fit everything in above the fold – it was all visible without scrolling on a MacBook 13".
Refine the interaction and I think you have a winner.
@BlueRoomSoftware, those are all ideas that were on the table at some point, but scrapped for the sake of time. They will find their way in at some point in the future.
I can’t understand this app. Too much cuteness I think.
A really gorgeously designed app. Simple, but straightforward and has a great feeling of completeness. Even the emails are beautiful! Very well done.
Very awesome!
I like the font on the site. It’s more than readable at least on my monitor, and the contrast between the background colors and font colors work well together.
The names of places on the map can be seen by hovering over the red mark / pinpoint.
I agree, I do not like the fonts on this site, and I found the Yelp map rather frustrating since I couldn’t see the actual names of the restaurants. Nice idea and cute graphics, but I think that a lot more needs to be done to make the site more useful and user friendly.
I love omnominator! Very polished. Beyond the awesome graphics and design, it works as expected. ZodTTD approved! :)
- Add the ability to create groups to more easily invite a vote.
- Add restaurant favorites
- iPhone-friendly page
site feels clunky, I was expecting the restraunts to appear in the omnoms list not on the tiny map.
Desperately needs support for rest of world. E.g. it’s completely non-useful for most of us, hence the poor scores.
Yelp (and thus, services that depend on it) are only useful inside wherever yelp works (only US?). I do know it doesn’t work on my little backwater third world country, which means I can’t consider it that useful. My criteria to judge an app as useful is to determine how would I use it.
Considering I’m also a contestant, I can’t be exactly objective, so I try to be as honest as possible with how I rate the apps. Yours is awesome (really, the css3/html5/whatever use is really amazing), but I won’t be able to use it :(
Great idea for a site. The font is a bit hard to read though. Otherwise, great job!
“Restaurant Mussolini” is clever, but a clearer explanation of what the service actually does may be more useful on the frontpage. If it seems to “insider”-y, fewer people are likely to try it.
Awesome concept! How many times have you had to figure out where to have a meeting spot or place to go for lunch?
@rosenthorns, The two fields at the bottom of the center panel are actually where you can add your own restaurants to the list. They aren’t saved for other people though, that kind of thing would be outside the scope of our app, that’s why we hooked into the Yelp! API for restaurants. Sorry the labels are so faint :(
Thanks, I actually used this to find a place to eat! This works great!!
The labels are a bit too light to show you where to input your info. Its a good concept. A new feature I’d like to see implemented is the ability to add restaurants. I put in my city and there was nothing there, leaving this app little use to me at this standpoint.
I love the custom type and customized Yelp map. It’s a bit difficult to figure out what to do at first (have to read directions and I’m lazy) and there’s a lot of forms to fill out.
I like that I don’t need to log in, however, the messages about someone stealing my email are a bit off-putting and it would be nice if the app remembered my previous selections.
Very very cute design.
Sweetness.
Brilliantly executed. The design is head and shoulders above everything else I’ve seen so far, and it is actually quite useful. This one is ready to use right out of the box.
Killer Rails Rumble App? Actually, you’re doing it quite well.
Thanks, everyone!
Great execution and lovely graphics.
The labels are a little too cute: sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what to enter…
Nice design
Very pretty!