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Ask HN: Review my Startup - http://Cardnap.com

#1

Post by lachyg » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

Check it out: http://cardnap.com/

In short, Cardnap helps you find the most heavily discounted gift cards for your favourite stores. We do this by aggregating the cards from all the various sellers out there, we've got plans to add the likes of Craigslist and eBay so we'll have nearly every marketplace out there. Although, this is just the beginning for us!

Would love your feedback on the idea, execution, and its direction! Bear in mind, this is just our MVP and we've got a long way to go from here.

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#2

Post by paraschopra » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:05 PM UTC

Love the design. Lachy, you always come up with beautiful designs. Loved http://paggstack.com too!

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#3

Post by lachyg » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:11 PM UTC

paraschopra wrote: post #2

Love the design. Lachy, you always come up with beautiful designs. Loved http://paggstack.com too!

Thanks Paras, I really view design as a very important part of a startup or new site. Gotta focus on making things as easy to use as possible, can be a great competitive advantage :-)

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#4

Post by frankdenbow » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:13 PM UTC

Clickable: http://cardnap.com/

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#5

Post by lachyg » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:13 PM UTC

frankdenbow wrote: post #4

Clickable: http://cardnap.com/

Thanks :-)

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#6

Post by frankdenbow » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:18 PM UTC

Love the design and the idea (the company I work for could have used this, as they just bought a ton of giftcards). It seems like there are many similar results for the same seller, which I didnt fully understand (seeing as they link to the same thing: http://cl.ly/1s3P1I3T2v3c0I3N1Z28). Will come back to this site when I need to buy come giftcards again!

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#7

Post by lachyg » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:20 PM UTC

frankdenbow wrote: post #6

Love the design and the idea (the company I work for could have used this, as they just bought a ton of giftcards). It seems like there are many similar results for the same seller, which I didnt fully understand (seeing as they link to the same thing: http://cl.ly/1s3P1I3T2v3c0I3N1Z28 ). Will come back to this site when I need to buy come giftcards again!

Yeah, that's the highest priority bug on our list at the moment. We'll merge them all and add a number available count.

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#8

Post by joshkdavies » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:21 PM UTC

frankdenbow wrote: post #6

Love the design and the idea (the company I work for could have used this, as they just bought a ton of giftcards). It seems like there are many similar results for the same seller, which I didnt fully understand (seeing as they link to the same thing: http://cl.ly/1s3P1I3T2v3c0I3N1Z28 ). Will come back to this site when I need to buy come giftcards again!

Thanks Frank, much appreciated feedback too. I'm Lachy's co-founder (and designer) on this one, very excited to have it up and running.

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#9

Post by ptbello » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:23 PM UTC

Nice! Here's my 10 seconds experience: in the search results page I got the sentence "Showing 125 cards worth between $10 and $200 discounted from 0% to 50% for ITunes." But the actual results have discounts between 8 and 10. In fact I clicked on "from 0% to 50%" and tried the range 45-50 but got no results; incidentally this distracted me from realising I could have clicked the column header and sorted in the first place. Perhaps the the sortable headers functionality should be more prominent by design. Great idea anyway!

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#10

Post by lachyg » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC

ptbello wrote: post #9

Nice! Here's my 10 seconds experience: in the search results page I got the sentence "Showing 125 cards worth between $10 and $200 discounted from 0% to 50% for ITunes." But the actual results have discounts between 8 and 10. In fact I clicked on "from 0% to 50%" and tried the range 45-50 but got no results; incidentally this distracted me from realising I could have clicked the column header and sorted in the first…

Ah, we'll make that more clear in the design / text. Cheers