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Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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Thanks for the catch. I'll check the logs and find out why it's doing this.

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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post #19

Brilliant. Needs a mobile app that lets me take a pic then post it as a listing. Then I'd spend an afternoon clicking pictures of everything in my attic.

Thanks. I'm really excited about building a native iOS app for our site and it's one of our important milestones.

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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MVP for YC'12 application. We've been heads down on this for a month now so it seemed like the right time to gather some feedback!

wow - I really like this and would be interested in beta testing for a small store that I'm involved with. Online sales is something we've wanted to do, but never had a good enough store front.

In general:

* ebay - big, bloated, complicated, high shipping costs

* craigslist - too scammy/spammy

* shopify - considered it, but seems overly complex for non-geeks

* etsy - what we were going to try next

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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post #21

Great stuff, only problem: I couldn't figure out how I GET money from customers

If you click Config there's a small payments panel. So far you can enter a paypal address to receive your payements and it will integrate with the cart, or you can simply accept your orders via email. We'll integrate with further providers later on, too.

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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post #26

You should pre-populate the images with stock photos found on google images. Removes one more barrier if I'm going to use stock photos anyway. (Obviously clearly mark it as "stock photo", still make it easy to upload my own). This is really cool by the way.

I think the text inviting them to upload a photo is fine. It's simple and obvious (though as I mentioned elsewhere they might want to offer an affordance for drag and drop).

A stock photo might introduce more problems than it solves. The user might not realize that they can easily change it, it might be slightly irritating if the image is 'wrong', and they'd have to find a set of images that are free/cheap and safe for commercial use.

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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This is fantastic. Nice and simple, and it does exactly what I want it to as a seller. Great job!!!!! Be careful about feature creep. The reason why Craiglist works is because it doesn't try to do too much. I think this can definitely have a similar sort of success given how freaking easy it is to use!

Spot on! We made this after reading 37s' Rework and very much admire the "how can we do less" mindset.
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