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Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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Post by officialjunk » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

adibalcan wrote: post #20

asymmetric wrote: post #13

If JS is disabled, it shows an unstyled page with text "Please wait". Would make sense to make it downgrade nicely, at the very least for the landing page.

Is a single page app. Need JS.

Minimally tell them that js is required?

But you could have a static landing page that leads to your single page app in the future.

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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Post by kudos200 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

adibalcan wrote: post #8

jaydub wrote: post #4

my 2 cents from a quick glance: don't require users to login to use the site, let them at least search or find products.

I can't send price changes alerts if I don't have user email

You could wait to collect the email address until after users have searched for a product and found something they want an alert on. That way people know what they're getting into and it makes more sense why you need their email address.

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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Post by adibalcan » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:44 PM UTC

kudos200 wrote: post #22

adibalcan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't send price changes alerts if I don't have user email

You could wait to collect the email address until after users have searched for a product and found something they want an alert on. That way people know what they're getting into and it makes more sense why you need their email address.

Thanks for feedback but we want to add an interactive demo on first page.

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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Post by adibalcan » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 9:46 PM UTC

UPDATE: Demo on first page + change password functionality

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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Post by joni1803 » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 9:09 AM UTC

tet wrote: post #2

It seems that this is a new trend. Shoptagr, Pricify and others. Also, this one looks really unappealing.

I'm the Co-Founder and CEO of http://Shoptagr.com and one of the biggest challenges for us has been to track item's prices at the SKU level, size, color and more, which is essential for the "the smart savvy shopper".