Holy hell... I thought I was a scope creeper...
"I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
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#12Not to be overly skeptical, but if you have to pay $5.00 to get someone to give you an opinion, you may not have the critical thinking skills that I see most successful entrepreneurs display. Unless this was some kind of viral marketing seed that went wrong. Then again, it did hit HN so who knows ...
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#13Checking out the site, it's actually pretty impressive. Not in the well-designed sense, but in the having-an-actual-product sense (even if it's, you know, a blatant ripoff of the sites he listed... http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/ feels like it takes the cake in that regard). I'm curious about where he got his funding from. Edit: The alt-text for his "Blog" image is literally 'scritter'. My co-workers are giving m…
"the ultimate micro blogging website"
I love the unattributed quote.
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#14I'm having horrible flashbacks to Rentacoder and all of the competitions calling for clones of popular sites. I can't believe someone managed to bring them all together. This is madness!
The only thing it's missing is a Rentacoder clone full of requests to clone this site.
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#15Here's a hint, dear webmaster. If you find yourself saying things like, "I am shocked that no other website has thought of doing this", you're probably missing something.
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#16Checking out the site, it's actually pretty impressive. Not in the well-designed sense, but in the having-an-actual-product sense (even if it's, you know, a blatant ripoff of the sites he listed... http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/ feels like it takes the cake in that regard). I'm curious about where he got his funding from. Edit: The alt-text for his "Blog" image is literally 'scritter'. My co-workers are giving m…
He's just cobbling together existing software. The auction is a default skin of PHPProBid.
I don't recognize the other sections, but none of them have the same look and feel (other than the logo...which is still a stretch). I think it's safe to say each section is just white-labeled software someone else created.
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#17That's easy: This person has no idea why Walmart is successful. Walmart's success has little to nothing to do with convenience. It has everything to do with economies of scale, being able to apply pressure to your suppliers, and efficient inventory tracking and prediction. The proposed website benefits from none of these...
I disagree. In the physical world, a "one-stop shop" like Walmart adds value because it costs time to travel between many different stores. What our author fails to realize is that there are already "one-stop shops" on the web: namely Google and Bing.
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#18That's easy: This person has no idea why Walmart is successful. Walmart's success has little to nothing to do with convenience. It has everything to do with economies of scale, being able to apply pressure to your suppliers, and efficient inventory tracking and prediction. The proposed website benefits from none of these...
That's why they're so profitable, but that's not why customers like them, at least not directly. Those things all contribute to low prices, which is one of the things he lists. All of the things you listed are benefits of extremely large scale, but Walmart wasn't born being huge. How did they get there?
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#19The website actually exists, too: http://globalcommunity.me/ It's worth checking out. It's almost as though someone built this as an object lesson in the horrors of losing focus. This idea is terrible – and the design tells you all you need. Look at all that. It's like a piñata full of services exploded all over their homepage. Wal-Mart also has one of the worst customer experiences ever – so we can snark all we want…
>"Wal-Mart also has one of the worst customer experiences ever"
Really? Every time I go I leave with a big smile. It might not be Zappos, but it's good enough considering the insanely low prices (even on commodity products!).
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#20Check out the two videos they have http://www.globalcommunity.me/videos/video/index.html.
"the auction site is better than just about anything out there". Even the speaker can't seem to believe it.