Not to be nitpicky, but in startups every little bit helps, you should change loose weight to lose weight in the "start a business" goal. Loose refers to the opposite of tight. Lose refers to the act of removing something.
Other than the dialog boxes that pop up like crazy the site is interesting. One thing you might want to elaborate on is how the system uses the data you provide to fine tune the algorithms.
If you are crowdsourcing the data for goals how are you going to prevent malicious activity from corrupting the goal set?
The "loose weight" entry was from a beta tester and I haven't quite finished the 'similar goals' part of the database, which will connect "loose weight" to the correctly spelled goal "lose weight" (which is also in the database). That should be working soon, which will help to minimize accidental entries.
In regards to malicious entries, this is a tricky subject. I'm thinking of malicious entries in terms of spam-type and just plain junk entries, is that what you mean? To some degree, worthless entries will be weeded out because no one will select them, so they will fall to the bottom of the recommended goals list (more to the point, the opposite will happen - the good will rise to the top). There are also a number of other steps I'm taking, including implementing a flagging system that will help with manual moderation.
Thanks for taking the time to check out the site! I'm going to be making a number of changes based on the feedback I've received here. I'll report back once things are further along.
No problem. The site definitely has potential. It might be a good idea to add some kind of chronological aspect of the goal system into it too. By that I mean to have the goals sorted by chronology in addition to rank. Most goals have a linear progression that if the suggested goals are ranked in a manner that is consistent with the natural progression of attaining the goal it will help in make the system more usable. If you wanted to implement this system you could take a look at how people order the subgoals when the goals are added to the main goal. You could also keep stats on what goals are added in addition to the goal that someone just added and do a netflix style "We noticed that you added 'get married' as a subgoal to your main goal of 'live a full life' might we suggest 'find a date' as a correlated goal?" or something along those lines. Good luck on it and I look forward to seeing your progress.
Other than the dialog boxes that pop up like crazy the site is interesting. One thing you might want to elaborate on is how the system uses the data you provide to fine tune the algorithms.
If you are crowdsourcing the data for goals how are you going to prevent malicious activity from corrupting the goal set?