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The site was built with two people, myself and my partner over roughly 8 months. I did all the design/frontend while he handled all the programming.
We'd love to hear any feedback you guys/gals have.
http://wantsthis.com
The app seems nice, although there seem to be some minor rendering issues when viewed in FF 3.5.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (the text in the 'sign up free' box gets a bit out of the box). However, there were other bugs - when I searched for a 'linux t-shirt', the 'next' arrow dissapeared at one point (there was a circle in it's place suggesting that it's loading). I then refreshed the page, and the previous item I added to my list appeared twice. I didn't review it any further, though, so I don't know if there are any other bugs. Hope this helps.
2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms).
3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one of the suggested wants, and I typed in a want. Then I registered. But in my registered persona, only the typed-in want was on my wish list, the clicked-on want had disappeared. Probably an edge case.
4. It looks like you make your money when buyers click on your Amazon affiliate links for the wanted objects. I wonder if you might make a little more money if you also put an explicit Amazon affiliates box/widget on the side, with a list of related objects?
The Preference checkboxes at the bottom of /settings.php don't appear correctly on Chrome.
Looks nice. The account auto-creation is neat. I didn't see an option to change the auto-generated account name (such as a35) to something of my choice. The Preference checkboxes at the bottom of /settings.php don't appear correctly on Chrome.
1. I really like that you can start using it without registering. I assume that the assigned name is usable beyond "now?" 2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms). 3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one of the suggested wants, and I typed in a want. Then I registered. But in my registered persona, only the typed-in want was on my wish list, the clicked-on want had disappeared. Prob…
2) That was important to us, glad it came across that way.
3) Thanks, looking into it.
4) We have a number of affiliates including Amazon, hopefully with more traffic we can expand. We are also looking into recommendations and price matching directly related to affiliates.
Cool app! How do you guys plan to make $$?
the auto-generated name thing is a great idea, but I wonder if you could increase the conversion rate by replacing the copy "Create an account now, so you can choose a better name for your wish list!" with the form itself. That copy makes it seem as if I need to register in order to select a name, but in reality selecting a name (and making a password) is the registration process.
one question: are you only pulling products from amazon and newegg currently, and if so, plans to expand?