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Re: I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.

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Post by ebiester » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:19 PM UTC

borism wrote: post #87

jat850 wrote: post #82

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I think (understandably) no prospective parent, upon losing their baby for any reason, is going to have "oh yeah, cancel those website reminders" at the forefront of their minds. Certainly, all it would take is probably the first email from one of them to arrive, but subscribing after the fact doesn't un-kick you in the teeth.

do parents that just lost their baby have checking e-mail high on their agenda?

Considering the 15 people who are going to be sending condolances letters once it hits the rumor mill? yep.

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#92

Post by TheCondor » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:27 PM UTC

Auto-register people. Circle back with people after 6 months and find out how they would have registered differently. Develop some profiles, identify the popular products, and you can allow expecting mothers to auto-register with the recommended items.

And buy yourself some kid-o-potamus swaddles. We never would have picked that out but someone gave us one and that was a life saver the first 6 weeks or so. Never would have though being all straight jacketed was the preferred way for babies to sleep...

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#93

Post by frossie » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:27 PM UTC

Here's my number one feature request that wishlists never seem to support: partial contributions. This is even more the case with baby registries, where families might want help with high-cost items (carseats, cribs etc) but where well-wishers are generally going to contribute something in the $20 range.

Ideally, I want to be able to contribute $20 towards that $80 carseat. If A, B & C also contribute, the item should be sent as coming from me, A, B & C. If only myself and A contribute, you should be given the opportunity to put in your $40 to complete the purchase.

Just my 2 cents.

[Edit: Basically I would like the lovechild of a wishlist with something like http://www.chipin.com/ - do that and you can really differentiate yourself]

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#94

Post by gabaix » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:28 PM UTC

UI thought: list of items in the showcase section has a lot of white space. While this is a good practice, you may want to allow more than 4 items per screen by reducing top & bottom white space for each item.

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#95

Post by patricklynch » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:30 PM UTC

natgordon wrote: post #38

qeorge wrote: post #33

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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 l…

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Post by djwebb1977 » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:33 PM UTC

Great looking site and definitely fills a void for new or expecting parents. My wife definitely would have used this when she was pregnant last year.

Congrats on your forthcoming arrival!

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#97

Post by natgordon » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:39 PM UTC

TheCondor wrote: post #92

Auto-register people. Circle back with people after 6 months and find out how they would have registered differently. Develop some profiles, identify the popular products, and you can allow expecting mothers to auto-register with the recommended items. And buy yourself some kid-o-potamus swaddles. We never would have picked that out but someone gave us one and that was a life saver the first 6 weeks or so. Never woul…

Thanks for both pieces of advice. :)

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#98

Post by prpon » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:48 PM UTC

natgordon wrote: post #38

qeorge wrote: post #33

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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 l…

How does the partnership work in this case? % of revenues? % of the project/venture? What if the designer gets too busy with other projects?

Sorry, I am being curious because most of us hackers are in the same boat when it comes to design.

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#99

Post by jdp23 » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

Excellent site, very nicely designed.

On the privacy policy, the principles you state are excellent. It would also help to be a little more concrete, for example under what circumstances (if any) will you share information with partners and advertisers?

I love the idea of creating connections between vendors. Is there anything more community-oriented than a mailing list? A LinkedIn or Facebook group for example if most of the vendors hang out one place or another.

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#100

Post by craigkerstiens » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:55 PM UTC

bdclimber14 wrote: post #71

natgordon wrote: post #69

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Yeah, it doesn't support that. I think the next step would be that when you add a product to the registry there's a checkbox like "let people buy this from other stores" which is default checked on amazon/babys-r-us and default unchecked on etsy.com. Then in the registry display you would see multiple offers for one product. Then there would still be the challenge you describe but it wouldn't be a UI problem, it woul…

Definitely a data matching challenge, and especially one stores wouldn't want you to solve :)

Our site, which was on HN a few days back actually does the price comparison shopping, as well as integrating with traditional registries. There was a lot that went in under the cover of how to import and push a registry to a traditional registry, but allows us a complete solution of showing guests the best price. (http://www.registrystop.com) We're more targeted towards wedding, but would love to do the same for baby registries.