Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — jgallagher11

jgallagher11

HN member
Joined
Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 3:54 PM UTC
HN karma
7
Public activity
19 items

About jgallagher11

http://listofthingsforsale.com

We're a store builder contained inside a single text area.

john [at] listofthingsforsale.com

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #3158231

    Cool. We're thinking a monthly subscription. We're still working out final pricing.

  2. comment
    Comment #3156604

    Thanks. That's a nice idea. Long term, we're going to format the text area so people can copy any paste any list format from almost any source - word, excel, csv, tab delimited etc…

  3. comment
    Comment #3156528

    Thanks for the the nice comments and the bug report. The text area is currently very buggy, something I'll be fixing very soon.

  4. comment
    Comment #3156521

    Thanks for the feedback. We'll be having some kind of setup where people can use their own domain for their site for sure.

  5. comment
    Comment #3156397

    Thanks. It's definitely way less effort (and I speak as an Objective C coder) but doesn't have the ease or slickness of taking the photo then starting to sell.

  6. comment
    Comment #3156260

    At first, to overcome the chicken and egg problem, it will be "bring your own traffic". As we grow, there will be global directory with search, with emphasis on your local shops.

  7. comment
    Comment #3156251

    Thanks for the feedback. Excellent points. We're going to be doing plenty of user testing with shop keepers and market stall holders in the coming months.

  8. comment
    Comment #3156222

    Thanks for the nice words. The text entry area is pretty buggy right now. But we do store invalid entries so people can go back and edit them. We'll have warnings showing to users …

  9. comment
    Comment #3156158

    Thanks for all the nice comments! - We've debated the pros and cons of lightboxes for a while now. We don't like them and prefer to see the image without chrome, but our users may …

  10. comment
    Comment #3155940

    We switched it from £ to $ just before we posted onto Hacker News. The text area breaks very easily right now, which we'll be fixing in the coming days. Thanks for the catch.

  11. comment
    Comment #3155859

    This might be the case. We're going to do lots of user testing to see what issues typical users have with it. If we detect the user is making a lot of mistakes, we'll fall back to …

  12. comment
    Comment #3155823

    Thanks for the nice words and the feedback. We just ran out of time on this. We'll be spending a lot more time on making this text area easier and nicer to use.

  13. comment
    Comment #3155589

    We see ourselves as a good fit for small shops or market traders who find selling online through existing options intimidating or unwieldy. We think there's also a gap in the marke…

  14. comment
    Comment #3155563

    Stock photos is a feature that exposes a tension in our product - what's good for sellers isn't always good for buyers. That said, you also make some good points why stock photos a…

  15. comment
    Comment #3155443

    Nice feedback. Thanks. We're keen to add Stripe, but we're based in the UK and it's not available over here yet. Excellent recommendations of Twilio and MailGun. We'll check them o…

  16. comment
    Comment #3155429

    Indeed it will. And longer term, many other currencies too. :)

  17. comment
    Comment #3155279

    Thanks. I'm really excited about building a native iOS app for our site and it's one of our important milestones.

  18. comment
    Comment #3155173

    Thanks for the catch. I'll check the logs and find out why it's doing this.

  19. comment
    Comment #3154939

    This is the first time I've deployed on Heroku so any advice would be brilliant. If you get any errors, please email us on support@listofthingsforsale.com.