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Thank you! Haha I'm not entirely sure I recommend my approach. Obejctive C + IGListKit + regular old UIKit on iOS, React through next.js (for SEO) and native css on web, and Kotlin…

Thank you for the thoroughness! I appreciate any technical "eyeballs" on the site for finding bugs, and this context helps speed up the fixing process. Much appreciated!

I'll share but these are not necessarily strong recommendations haha—many of these decisions stemmed from what I used in the last few years as a full-stack eng at Pinterest, and be…

That's a great question! A little background: before we started Queenly, our users would often send payments and dresses to each other within large Facebook groups. As you might ex…

Oh also, we thought of this when we met a user on our platform asking about attire for ice skating competitions! We figured that we can also expand this to competition / performanc…

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

We truly appreciate it!!

Thanks! Quinceañera is super big but underserved. We hope to help provide more access and affordability to these big and celebratory dresses :)

This has been very top of mind actually! We have some users who have uploaded a lot of qipaos and aoi dais already. For immigrant women, it's difficult to find any formal cultural …

Prom is supposed to be fun, but prom dresses are expensive!

This is a fantastic recommendation! Thank you :)

Thank you! For context on 1. We do indeed have both resale dresses as well as mom and pop dress boutiques with brand new inventory on our platform. The latter arose during the pand…

Definitely a tricky design challenge, to keep a playful but high end tone to the landing page!

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Haha thank you. For context, we launched on iOS, Android, and web within the same year, which has helped our marketplace grow, but we’ve since realized that we are outgrowing our e…

Thank you for the constructive feedback! Would you happen to have a link to the page or a screenshot of the color contrast issue? Appreciate the detailed feedback!

Hey HN! I’m Kathy, cofounder and CTO of Queenly ( https://queenly.com/ ). We created a marketplace and search engine for formal dresses (think wedding, prom, quinceanera, etc). Our…

this is pretty cool-the illustrations are really nice. i think the timing is ripe for educational startups given the state of the pandemic, schools not opening up anytime soon, and…