Anyone who’s ever visited HotOrNot and clicked on pictures for hours will be a perfect user for AddHer. Users (women only at this point, look for AddHim soon, say the founders) upload a photo of themselves and create a widget that can be embedded on MySpace or another website. The widget shows the user plus another randomly selected woman and asks readers to select who they like better based on a variety of questions. If this doesn’t make sense, just see the embedded widget above and keep clicking on my face (the founders decided to allow me to join even though I’m not a woman - I didn’t pick that picture though).
Readers can visit the MySpace page of the person they clicked on, and users who’ve created a widget can see their ratings and the total number of times people have seen their image. See their tour and the AddHer blog for for more details.
This is the first product of Addmired, Inc., which is a Y Combinator startup. More on the Addmired CrunchBase page.
I smell a winner!
why is it the same person over and over again.
My, my… you should do a re-re-make of Casino Royal.
They need to ditch the motion on the images…doesn’t look good.
LOL, good pic, Mike. Clicked on your ass 10 times in a row!
This could get addicting. Nice job!
yeah, as I said above, I didn’t pick that picture.
Hooray, my “Featured” video is in that widget. Awesomeness
this is gonna be big.
Dude, lose this shit off the front page! It’s hosed my IE7.0 5X and maxes out my DUAL CORE Procs to the point where I have to close all my IE sessions. POS widget!
Works fine for me.
p.s. get off IE.
i small little company called uLiken is already doing this. good, but not original.
Also tried to play along and uploaded a picture of Tyler Durden and all I got was an errro. Also tried 5 X. LOL, get off IE is not an answer - make it work with IE or you lose. Again, POS widget.
Not so many questions really, I voted Mike for prom queen twice though.
but if you had picked the picture, it would have been that one anyways, right?
it’s a pretty slick widget. definitely could be a hit, if the compare friends facebook app didn’t already do exactly the same thing.
yea sorry about this mike but you didnt get any votes from me
This is considered new? There’s already a top-10 facebook app with over 10 Million users that does this - it’s called Compare People. I thought YC was supposed to be original?
I think this widget crash my mac when I open techcrunch with safari
Now exactly how is this going to make any money? Is there any competitive advantage to another widget? I’m going to be sick if this gets VC funding.
but, It would be interesting to know who clicked the picture? You really seem to fit there with those hot babes
I actually thought you ‘re better looking then most of the dogs in there… does that make me gay?
@Titan - Yes.
It doesn’t always crash my PC (and someone else’s MAc using Safari) but if you reload it a few times it definitely FKs up your session.
Voting on the Compare People app is painfully slow compared to this and also the Compare People app is stuck on Facebook! Plus, I think you guys are missing the fact that this widget can drive traffic to the link that the user inputs. I think this is a great idea wrapped up in a slick looking widget.
Kudos.
I thought YC was supposed to be original?
Why are 50% of the girls you are compared with some kind of emo chicks?
That´s a great app! And what about AddHim, it´s comming soon?
The widget doesn’t seem to work. It’s stuck in a continual load cycle. Using IE6 (work required).
Boo… this crashes Safari.
LOL, it doesn’t work with FF 3 Beta 3 either.
I hope you’re in the general pool of users, so that your picture occasionally appears on people’s myspace pages when they’re expecting a cute girl. I’d get a kick out of that.
Sweet. This’ll be a great way to pick up babes.
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I mean…?
I like to look a girls, but how do they make money on this?
Certainly not the best idea Y Combinator has funded…
crashed my Safari…had to Force Quit and use Firefox.
It’s an automatic Fail. Anything from YC is a fail.
Awesome!!! If I was 12. What a waste of space even writing about this.
Is this a company!! What are kids wasting there time on these days.
Heres mikes results from the votes!
http://www.addher.com/blog/?p=7
Total votes: 49,273
Votes won: 20,472
Votes lost: 28,802
Here is how Mike did from best to worst!
1st. Who’s more popular?
2nd. Better style?
3rd. Who dresses better?
4th. Who’s Cooler?
5th. Who parties harder?
6th. Who’s the next prom queen?
7th. Who gets more action?
8th. Who’s hotter?
9th. Who would you kick it with?
10th. Who would you make out with?