I've been building mmerch.com alone for roughly the past two years part time.
I'm really hoping I can get some reviews/critiques on it.
Thanks!
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#3It shows that it has been a labour of love. Kudos!
My 2 cents: I would like to have a "View store as customer" link, which shows a preview of the store. I created a single dummy product and tried accessing it at https://memememe.mymmerch.com/ which threw an internal error. Also, the Add Product page is a tad long and would be better if broken up into 2-3 pages.
Again, great work! Good luck.
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#4I tried out your site and have some feedback for you:
a) In general, I like your design, though I'm not a big fan of the flicker when you use Javascript to change the font. I'm using Chromium on Ubuntu though, so this may not show up on Windows/OS X.
b) Check out this scenario. Enter your live demo site and go to the settings page. Attempt to change a value on that page and then click 'save'. When I save the settings, I end up on an unstyled page that says, "{"success": "Store Settings Successfully Saved"}". I suspect that would scare customers away!
c) The 'add a product' page needs some work. I found the whole process quite difficult and found myself constantly asking myself what information I really need. This is problematic because I suspect I have more eCommerce experience than your target customer. The first thing I'd do is move the 'add photos' function higher. Second, I'd consider walking people through the process (ie - through a series of smaller forms rather than one long form)...
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#5It shows that it has been a labour of love. Kudos! My 2 cents: I would like to have a "View store as customer" link, which shows a preview of the store. I created a single dummy product and tried accessing it at https://memememe.mymmerch.com/ which threw an internal error. Also, the Add Product page is a tad long and would be better if broken up into 2-3 pages. Again, great work! Good luck.
You have to go to the settings page to find this, but apparently, you can access the demo at https://demo.mymmerch.com.
Edit - I just tried that link and it throws an internal error as well. Sorry!
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#6It shows that it has been a labour of love. Kudos! My 2 cents: I would like to have a "View store as customer" link, which shows a preview of the store. I created a single dummy product and tried accessing it at https://memememe.mymmerch.com/ which threw an internal error. Also, the Add Product page is a tad long and would be better if broken up into 2-3 pages. Again, great work! Good luck.
Hmm, I haven't had that issue before, but i'm certianly seeing it now, I'll check that out tonight. Thanks alot for the feed back
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#7It shows that it has been a labour of love. Kudos! My 2 cents: I would like to have a "View store as customer" link, which shows a preview of the store. I created a single dummy product and tried accessing it at https://memememe.mymmerch.com/ which threw an internal error. Also, the Add Product page is a tad long and would be better if broken up into 2-3 pages. Again, great work! Good luck.
You have to go to the settings page to find this, but apparently, you can access the demo at https://demo.mymmerch.com . Edit - I just tried that link and it throws an internal error as well. Sorry!
Murphy and his stupid laws :)
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#8I tried out your site and have some feedback for you: a) In general, I like your design, though I'm not a big fan of the flicker when you use Javascript to change the font. I'm using Chromium on Ubuntu though, so this may not show up on Windows/OS X. b) Check out this scenario. Enter your live demo site and go to the settings page. Attempt to change a value on that page and then click 'save'. When I save the settings…
Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely fix the store settings issue.
Good point on the add product page. I'm going to try simplifying that. Moving the photos up sounds like a good idea as well
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#9How would you go about marketing this? I don't know much about the e-commerce site creator market, but what separates you from the competition?
Re: Show HN: mmerch.com (Solo Founder, ~2 years in development)
#10How would you go about marketing this? I don't know much about the e-commerce site creator market, but what separates you from the competition?
Right now we're focused on smaller shops, price wise we offer a lot more features, multiple payment gateways, complete custom themeing and also marketplaces that you can showcase your products in for no additional cost. VNTGE.net is the first marketplace that's been built for vintage and antique goods.
*First as in first mmerch marketplace, not first ever.