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Hi guys, I posted on HN 10 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - about our site. It is a way for you to create giftlists and to find gift ideas in an easy way. W…

Hi guys, I have a friend who's brother lives in Canada and has been missing for 3 weeks. When I say missing he has not returned calls (his phone is off), he hasn't been online (as …

This is great! Thanks so much!

We launched today - http://www.ultimategiftlists.com - we've spent the last week on it. I got bored of having to write an email with a series of links to my family to tell them wha…

That's really kind - thank you..

Thanks - glad you liked it. Yep we've had a look and we think one reason that ours has an advantage over theirs is because of the big feature of our site, which may not of been obv…

Thanks, glad you seem to like it. Yeh we'll definitely sort differently in the future. We'll also allow users to drag tiles around and arrange their list in anyway they want..

I am not the coder, my friend is - I will let him answer you. From my limited knowledge I know that my friends skills lie with this technology and therefore he built something usin…

Correct - we are waiting for Skimlinks to approve our application. We just wanted to test the idea first..

Cool thanks - we'll double check to make sure we haven't got anything controversial as part of our default content!

Yeh hope people don't think we are spamming - we wanted to launch on a quiet day (Saturday morning) and just get some stats to see if people knew that the bookmarklet existed (if t…

That every Christmas and birthday my family ask me what I want for Xmas/birthday and that I have to email them a bunch of links as to what it is that I want. Maybe it isn't a probl…

Yep it is affiliate marketing - we just launched to friends and family here in the UK to begin with but have just applied to SkimLinks so will turn any of our links into affiliate …

The curse of the HN homepage - we are taking a look at it, sorry for the outage..

Ok cool - we'll make it much more prominent. With regard to the second bit of feedback - we'll be adding price soon and will continue to iterate so the pictures are sharper and bet…

Yeh we completely agree - looking at stats and how many people are installing 'giftmark' we knew we had a problem. We'll look to address it - thanks for the feedback, it's much app…

Hi thanks for the feedback. The big feature of this site, which may not of been obvious, is the 'giftmark' bookmarklet - this means that you can add any items you want when you bro…

We've spent around 2 weeks or so developing this and we'd love any feedback you may have...thanks in advance.

Hi, thanks for commenting. Just so I am clear - you were doing stuff on the site and then clicked the FireFox back button and the site seemed to screw up in someway? Sorry for prob…