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ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
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Re: ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
#22Cool idea to go along side would be an iPad app, which allows you to compare your actual foot to inside of the shoe. From the bottom, from the side, etc. Would also work for gloves. EDIT: Hell, you even show it on a regular LCD screen. Or allow the user to print it out to compare.
I imagine the problem is that shoes are real things with 3 dimensions, and feet change shape when they're compressed... neither of which are addressed by a printout (sure a printout is better than nothing, but if it's not predictive enough it's not worth the trouble).
If a device could model what kind of shoe you should wear based on an interactive iPad foot print, that would be amazing tech.
Re: ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
#23A year ago I wrote up some notes for an idea that has elements of this. Funny enough, I sent it to Google and Amazon. I don't know why I bothered. I just wanted to tell someone, I suppose. I did not have a blog then... well I barely have one now. Also, The plan was not exactly something I could do on my own.
The idea was called Travel Packs. You're going to travel? Send your itinerary to Google and it will decide what you need/want to go into your luggage. Google will do all of this by using your itinerary, profile, body dimensions, weather, etc... The Travel Pack will then magically appear at your destination. When your done with your trip, just leave it behind.
Great things about this:
1) You no longer have to pack or bring luggage with you when traveling. 2) Companies have a new way to target consumers. Imagine all of the companies who will compete to have their products placed in these packs. 3) Consumers get to try out new things without having to buy them. How about letting consumers purchase items from the Travel Pack at discounts.
To make this work, the clothes will have to fit. To do that we probably need 3D scans, although that may not be necessary for first iterations. Google has shown the initiative to map the world, why not drive around and start mapping the people. Just think of what you could do with these data! Of course many people would be uncomfortable with these scans and discussion probably needs to happen about who would own these data.
Anyway, I was once pretty stoked about this. Now I don't really care. But I think it's something that someone will do. Actually, I think there is already a company trying to make a go at pre-packaged luggage though I don't know how intelligent it is.
Re: ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
#24I saw these guys present at SuperConf.net and what a fantastic idea backed by "patent pending" 3d imaging. Amazing stuff and someone is going to grab them quick for an easy 30 to 50 million.
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#25Why is this dropping off the frontpage so fast? It's way uncharacteristically down. Is there some kind of hidden penalty at play? It's not spam, and has 50 points in 53 minutes, losing to posts with way less than that...
I'm not sure. Perhaps an HN admin thinks it's spam?
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#26I was initially confused by the demo. Potential use cases 1. I have a perfect fitting shoe, I'd like to buy another perfect fitting shoe of a different brand. 2. I haven't found the perfect fitting shoe. I'd like to find one. I assumed this would be solving problem #2, but it solves problem #1. I thought I would tell it "I'm currently in shoe X, and it's the right length but chafes on the right side" or something of…
That sort of help-me-find should be pretty easily possible, it just hasn't been done yet. I'd assume it will come out eventually.
What this solves is that buying shoes online is a total crap-shoot unless you're buying something you've already tried on. It's even worse than buying pants, where waists can vary by several inches off their stated inches. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-0...
Re: ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
#27Why is this dropping off the frontpage so fast? It's way uncharacteristically down. Is there some kind of hidden penalty at play? It's not spam, and has 50 points in 53 minutes, losing to posts with way less than that...
I'm not sure. Perhaps an HN admin thinks it's spam?
nope, they think it's a voting ring
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#28"Buying shoes online sucks. Sizing between brands (and sometimes even within brands) is different."
Zappos (who Amazon owns) does show whether shoes fit true to size or whether to size up. Is this really that much better?
Re: ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
#29I was initially confused by the demo. Potential use cases 1. I have a perfect fitting shoe, I'd like to buy another perfect fitting shoe of a different brand. 2. I haven't found the perfect fitting shoe. I'd like to find one. I assumed this would be solving problem #2, but it solves problem #1. I thought I would tell it "I'm currently in shoe X, and it's the right length but chafes on the right side" or something of…
The other tricky bit is that the perfect fitting shoe has to be a current model that they have already scanned. And hopefully it fit perfectly when it was bought, not when it was worn in.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure. Perhaps an HN admin thinks it's spam?
nope, they think it's a voting ring
That's a bummer (and not true). These guys deserve a ton of attention. It was presented at Launch and SuperConf so maybe they're getting some false positive from people that were there?