I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?

by pinksoda on 3/19/2010, 6:42 PM with 11 comments

The site is www.talkburst.com

TalkBurst allows you to create a public profile for anyone with a name, and write a review of them. Once their profile is created, other people can review them too. Reviews are organized by an accuracy score, which is measured with an upvote/downvote style voting system.

Users earn badges as they write reviews, upload pictures, vote, and more. Badges unlock special privilages on the site, such as the ability to edit profiles or to reveal "censored" posts, which are posts that have been deemed too hateful or gossip-like.

  • by rcfox on 3/19/2010, 8:24 PM

    A social network centred around libel? Sounds like a great idea.

    Surprisingly, I was able to find the first person I searched for. However, all of his reviews were very negative, and pretty far from the truth.

    I tried to use the categories to find more people, but they're sorted alphabetically, with no option to narrow it down to a city, or anything else. I don't really care to blindly search through 25000 professors.

  • by chaosprophet on 3/20/2010, 1:53 PM

    You could market that as a Yelp for people, if only Yelp wasn't having so much bad press lately.

  • by nudge on 3/19/2010, 8:02 PM

    The badges are obvious stackoverflow knockoffs. You need to fix that.

  • by giantfuzzypanda on 3/20/2010, 12:46 AM

    The logo makes me want to kill people. Nice site though.

  • by pinksoda on 3/19/2010, 6:43 PM

    Here's a clickable link: http://www.talkburst.com

    There are currently over 1.3 million reviews of people from the US and Canada. Everything ranging from doctors to professors to lawyers to investors, and more.

  • by pinksoda on 3/20/2010, 7:15 PM

    I just changed the home page drastically. It's not completely done yet, still have to find a spot for the "recently earned badges" but check it out and let me know what you think.