You might want more instruction on how bookmarklets work. Most people have no idea WTF a bookmarklet is.
I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
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#32Usually, in the about, I find "we" to be better than "I". I did that, I did this, I'm the founder, I'm the developer, I contacted xyz, I hope you like it.. "We" would sound more professional.. Just to be clear, I'm not saying you should remove that friendly tone which I find great, especially for that kind of website. However, I'm not sure if it is worth it to put so much emphasis on you as you are not the goal of th…
I disagree with this. It always makes me a feel little duped when a one-person operation uses "we".
Re: I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
#33I'm 8-months pregnant. When I went to create a baby registry I was pretty disappointed with what was out there (I ended up using Amazon Universal Wishlist). I found myself with some time on my hands waiting for baby, and decided that I'd build a better baby registry. I partnered with a great designer I met on forrst.com, and this is the result. I'd love any feedback, suggestions etc.
The design really looks great. We're always looking for good designers to work with, but not being a designer myself, I'm not a member of forrst.
Are you a member, or did you browse the work posted and contact someone directly? Would love to hear more about that process.
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#34You might want more instruction on how bookmarklets work. Most people have no idea WTF a bookmarklet is.
This is the #1 thing on the TODO. So far all sign-ups (which are not many) have successfully added products, which has surprised me.
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#35I'm sorry I don't have time to go through your app more, but here some things that occurred to me (I have 17 month old and 3 yr old, so just out of your target):
1) Try to collect data and offer up suggestions 2) Try to get a good Facebook presence. (etsy.com). Your target market lives on Facebook now. 3) Can you email your registry?
Gotta go. Good luck
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#36Keep an an eye on the domain, all too often people type 'bitly . com' when I say 'bit . ly' - do you have babylist.com?
I know. I contacted the owner of babylist.com (it's a mirror of babylist.co.uk) and they never got back to me.
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#37I love the site, although I am certainly not your market (male, don't want kids). However, a month ago someone posted an almost identical concept to HN. I think it was for wedding registries though. Overall, great concept, attractive website, and a real need. My only criticism relates to it being fairly obvious. What hacker hasn't bought a wedding/baby gift and thought "Wouldn't it be cool if there was a registry for…
I hear you. I think the one thing that makes this different is that I'm not going after the universal wishlist market, just the baby registry market. When you go to create a baby registry you're not like "oh, i need a wishlist of items for the baby". I'm just starting to market this with people in the pregnancy/baby space, and so far they seem to think this is a totally original idea made just for them.
FYI - I just received an invitation to a baby shower with a reference to www.amazingregistry.com. Your site looks much more pleasant than theirs, and you have a more narrow focus... but since their URL ended up on a real baby shower invitation, I'd say they are your competition.
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#38I'm 8-months pregnant. When I went to create a baby registry I was pretty disappointed with what was out there (I ended up using Amazon Universal Wishlist). I found myself with some time on my hands waiting for baby, and decided that I'd build a better baby registry. I partnered with a great designer I met on forrst.com, and this is the result. I'd love any feedback, suggestions etc.
The design really looks great. We're always looking for good designers to work with, but not being a designer myself, I'm not a member of forrst. Are you a member, or did you browse the work posted and contact someone directly? Would love to hear more about that process.
I'm a member, but not actively.
I had the idea for the site and posted it (http://forrst.com/posts/Any_designers_interested_on_collabor... but I don't think this link will work if you're not logged in)
This is what I wrote:
Hey,
I'm a ruby on rails developer and I'm 5 months pregnant.
Today I created a baby registry and it was a nightmare. I ended up using the amazon.com universal wishlist. It's a bookmarklet that lets you add any product on the web to an amazon wishlist. Unlike a registry, your friends and family "reserve" an item instead of actually buying it from the specific store that has the registry.
My idea is to create a new website "baby registry anywhere" (terrible name) where you can add and reserve items similar to the universal wishlist. I think it would also be cool to be able to add more than one link for an item, so your friends/family could choose where to purchase it.
I could probably code a minimal, launchable version in a week (or 5 Fridays). In the past I've hired designers for projects but I'd love to work with someone as partners on this.
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I had a kind of overwhelming response and clicked with one designer via text chat and we went forward. In retrospect, I've spent way more than 5 days on this.
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#391. Keep it simple. Do not add features like people ask!
2. Your domain name sucks. Look for something better. This is impossible to recall.
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#40This reminds me a lot of www.isbornyet.com
Similar idea, but with the variant of your own domain and the ability to announce to friends etc, when your baby is born.