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What a great idea and site! Great execution. Are you making money through this via affiliate sales? With a little more polish and popularity, this site could make a ton of cash that way.
Congrats on launching this, it's great. I'm in the UK so obviously my first suggestion is UK webshop integration =) The site is simple, clean and easy to use. I noticed that a lot of the small touches of UI which add to the experience were there as well - eg a little tick next to each component when you've selected it and then it does go away again when you click remove. (Sounds straight forward I know, but great att…
Wow, lots of feedback - much appreciated. Re: 1: This is becoming a common theme, so it's definitely something I need to address. I like your suggestions on how to break it down into more manageable sub-categories. Re: 2: Changed it, thanks. Re: 3, 4, 6, 8, 10: All definitely on the roadmap. Re: 5: On the System Build page, there's a tab for viewing the price breakdown by merchant. Is that along the lines of what you…
Suggestion: it might not be a bad idea to include the age of a certain part.
Looks and works great. It would be an improvement to ajaxify the process so it doesn't refresh every time I choose a product. Also, start marketing this like, pronto! Open a blog linked to it where you benchmark and review hardware and build a community as fast as you can around it. That way your idea is harder to steal by the big players (and they'll look bad by doing so exponentially), and you'll have a ton more le…
As for protecting the idea, I think the only real concern is that one of these merchants hires a contractor to copy the concept. But their version will be fundamentally flawed because it won't have price history (against their interest) and price comparison.
I really like the "Featured System" functionality. In fact, I think you should focus on the Featured System thing. I am a casual DIY part picker, and I would rather just browse several community vetted configurations. Other people are more interested in building a system from scratch, or commenting on other people's configs. Now, imagine a "fork this configuration" option! So a builder can fork someone else's system…
Disqus was a great idea. I've added it to the bottom of the part list pages. I'll look into adding it to the individual part pages.
I really like the "Featured System" functionality. In fact, I think you should focus on the Featured System thing. I am a casual DIY part picker, and I would rather just browse several community vetted configurations. Other people are more interested in building a system from scratch, or commenting on other people's configs. Now, imagine a "fork this configuration" option! So a builder can fork someone else's system…
I like the idea of promoting the featured system aspect more. The ability to fork a configuration is already there - perhaps not visible enough (the "Edit this part list" on permalinked/featured part lists). Disqus was a great idea. I've added it to the bottom of the part list pages. I'll look into adding it to the individual part pages.
I'd also make it much more ajaxy, it's currently too slow! Also, if it's possible, a picture of the computer so far would be cool, and would be a major innovation.
Looks and works great. It would be an improvement to ajaxify the process so it doesn't refresh every time I choose a product. Also, start marketing this like, pronto! Open a blog linked to it where you benchmark and review hardware and build a community as fast as you can around it. That way your idea is harder to steal by the big players (and they'll look bad by doing so exponentially), and you'll have a ton more le…
I think the static page views are fine, for what it's worth. As for protecting the idea, I think the only real concern is that one of these merchants hires a contractor to copy the concept. But their version will be fundamentally flawed because it won't have price history (against their interest) and price comparison.
This can become the Google of PC Hardware searches and as such MUST be protected and monetized by means of an affiliate program ASAP!
By the way, not a big fan of the name. Something like PCHardware.com seems like a better fit.
This app is incredible. I wished for something like this years ago while building PC's off pricewatch. thanks for making it happen.
Along the same lines, it's not so much the parts that should be emphasized, but the whole: combinations of hardware that are known to work well together, and deliver the best value. So perhaps the site name/domain should use terms like "rig," "system," "combo" etc.
There may be copyright issues, but two sources of vetted combinations are the system guides at The Tech Report, and ars technica; would be nice to have those on your site:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/19868
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2010/09/the-ars-system...