I would love for anyone with a few extra minutes to try the new gift-finding app we built: https://gftbot.com. Are the results relevant? Any issues with the bot interaction? Comments welcome.
@jack I had a go the results where pretty good and in the end I did select one of the suggestions, I found it fun and seemed to work, A couple of the questions I would have liked some more granularity or a not applicable. for example the alcohol questions were very binary
@adamprocter Thanks for taking a look. Good point about needing a bit more granularity. Scoring the gifts can be tricky so we started with things a bit on the binary side.
@jack Lost patience in between but went on until the end. Results after answering “Cat person”: a lot of real cat related gifts – the person has no cat 🙁
@kulturnation I had the same complaint about the pet-related gifts. It’s tricky, but I agree. Yes, it can be a bit long getting through. We recently added the “Hurry!” option :). Thanks for the feedback!
@jack Just rethinking my experience: Maybe if it would have said „We have found some nice gifts already – wanna see?“ I would have checked them. And if there was not enough of the „right” stuff I would have continued, if offered.
@jack I had a go the results where pretty good and in the end I did select one of the suggestions, I found it fun and seemed to work, A couple of the questions I would have liked some more granularity or a not applicable. for example the alcohol questions were very binary
@adamprocter Thanks for taking a look. Good point about needing a bit more granularity. Scoring the gifts can be tricky so we started with things a bit on the binary side.
@jack Lost patience in between but went on until the end. Results after answering “Cat person”: a lot of real cat related gifts – the person has no cat 🙁
@kulturnation I had the same complaint about the pet-related gifts. It’s tricky, but I agree. Yes, it can be a bit long getting through. We recently added the “Hurry!” option :). Thanks for the feedback!
@jack I saw the „Hurry“ but, of course, I wanted to have the perfect gift 🙂
@jack Just rethinking my experience: Maybe if it would have said „We have found some nice gifts already – wanna see?“ I would have checked them. And if there was not enough of the „right” stuff I would have continued, if offered.
@kulturnation That’s a good thought, thanks.
.@jack Will test but not if I have to install something. Lol I’m too much of a purist for that.