Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
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Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
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Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#2I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon you can do full text search for categories. There is advanced book search more accessible than Amazon advanced book search. Please tell me what are the features you want more.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#3I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon yo…
Search by dimensions would be great. I've been wanting that for a long time.
Try to normalize unit prices, the absence of which I presume is for Amazon to move whatever product they prefer.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#4I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon yo…
Search by dimensions would be great. I've been wanting that for a long time. Try to normalize unit prices, the absence of which I presume is for Amazon to move whatever product they prefer.
Thanks for the feedback! I will look into it.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#5I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon yo…
I like how you use the tour to explain the interface. Since you seem to be targeting power users although they could probably figure it out as you go along it makes it slightly less intimidating.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#6A few things:
- The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power.
- Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidden keywords?
- Re: branding. I feel like you haphazardly went for a 5-letter dot com, when you could have done something more memorable like amazonhunter.com
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#7A few things: - The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power. - Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidde…
Yes but he would be shutdown instantly if he used "Amazon" in the url
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#8A few things: - The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power. - Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidde…
Thank you for feedback.
* You are right interface provide too much. My aim is not only provide deals. I mostly use it myself for books search. For technical books I always search for English books which are published in recent years (2 years) I saved my search parameters so I don't enter again again these. Sometimes I want to sort products by most reviews but this sort is absent in most departments.
* Hidden keywords are not much fancy I agree. Sometimes I use it to find more results like wrote a nonsense word with minus "-dgeygdeuydgede" Amazon gives more results.
* It against of Amazon terms of service.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#9A few things: - The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power. - Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidde…
Agreed. Just some random thoughts
- I'd add some indication of how long the tour is. Felt like I clicked for a while. Maybe I'm just impatient.
- Highlight the input that the tour popup is currently referencing in some way (eg add blue focus border)
- All of your inputs have explanatory text below them, and no labels. They also have no spacing to show what goes with what. You should add labels above the inputs, and put the explanatory text in a tooltip
- You have a breadcrumb kind of display on the top right side. Usually that's on the top left. I also expected it to be interactive since it is styled in blue, like a link
- Can you put the search results in an iframe or something, keeping the user on the same page? Opening a new tab was unexpected.
Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids
#10Nice job :)
Sad though, once one considers what Amazon has begun as: a search engine...
And yes, somehow and for some reason most ecommerce sites are not good at filtering their data on more criteria in categories...