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Love that you can pull in other open source plugins. Super cool!

Super interesting. My family are farmers. I got a PhD in physics, switched to startups and have one successful exit. However family is still a BIG value for me. I think a lot about…

Web app made! https://givetheperfectgift-app.web.app/

Alright, now there's no account creation AND no app download. I had hoped using Flutter would pay off! I would only recommend trying on a mobile browser. The swiping doesn't work o…

I think I got the web app version working! I had hoped using Flutter would pay off. Edit: I would only recommend trying on a mobile browser. The swiping doesn't work on desktop yet…

Yeah! I found your thing when I was looking for options in the gifting space. For me it's the difference between wanting to outsource and wanting to optimize. I was never comfortab…

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. I originally had generic tags that people could add but no one would ever add a unique tag. It just kept on pushing the suggest…

Looking for one to add to the app now. lol

It's lower on the mobile website. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wk5-TrIPbpk

Yeah, part of the reason I came up with this is that my family keeps asking me about gift ideas for my wife and kids. I know what they like. I can answer that question. What I have…

Using Firebase for the backend.

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Thank you so much! I will definitely check it out!

Yeah, I'm starting to scrape Etsy (there are definitely some on there already). Shopify stores seem like another big opporunity. It could potentially be the biggest mall in the wor…

You're welcome! The framing I have been thinking of is search engines/Amazon are great when you have a keyword. What seems to be missing is a product discovery engine. How do you s…

Oooohhh, I am super curious by what you mean by this. How is gifting culture different outside of North America?

I totally respect that. As I have been talking to people, I have noticed people who are frequently shopping and checking out products are WAY more ahead of the game because they ar…

Thank you!! There's a lot that's still clunky about it but hopefully I can make it so that it continues to earn a spot on your phone.

Thanks for the website feedback. I honestly just put it there as a placeholder and was working entirely on the app. Then I realized that for showing on HN the website is the right …

Oh man, this reminded me of something super retro about passing around the same gift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9qSKZuvC4&t=1928s

Not sure for the plans for open source. Technically I am creating an anonymous account using Firebase. I've half built the capabilities to allow people to convert the anonymous acc…

The push notifications were so I can send notifications as I add products that match the tags. When someone adds something super specific, there might not be anything in the app th…

Love the idea! However this will require much more integration to make sure I am showing the right size compared to just scraping. I'll put it on the roadmap!

That's fair! I've used Google for people who I am close to and those listicles have routinely fallen short for me. I think this is more to try to answer questions like "What do you…

I'll play with Flutter today and see how easy/hard it would be to add web. I know the formatting will be brutal once you switch to a desktop browser because the whole idiom for int…