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Good luck with your product! Just one suggestion about the website colours: the contrast between background and text is very poor in some places - you have a deep green background with a brown text. If I were you I would pay a professional designer to work on that.
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A Shopify site would probably be a decent MVP... This is the second Launch HN in the last few days (the other being that macOS meeting widget one) that has left me absolutely baffled as to what YC saw/sees in it.
Sorry, I didn’t mean my comment to come off so negatively. I do wish the team the best of luck and think that reimagining aspects of the fashion industry is a very worthy ambition.
Congrats on your launch! Your website is super straightforward and well-designed. Best of luck:)
It feels like having a marketplace for this cheapens the experience of using formalwear. Imo I would try and find a way to change the experience so its not similar to buying stuff on Ebay (i.e the homepage feels that way)
Showed Queenly to my wife, and it clicked with her instantly. She reminisced about having to get several catalogs to find the right prom dress. We both love the name, although if I'm being honest I think the brand colors and fonts could be elevated in order to more meaningfully distinguish yourself from eBay and your other non-verticalized competitors (who all seem to have kind of tech-y, too-fun brands). Some feedba…
For context on 1. We do indeed have both resale dresses as well as mom and pop dress boutiques with brand new inventory on our platform. The latter arose during the pandemic, as many of those shops unfortunately closed down and had to find a way to integrate their inventory online. It’s definitely a tricky UX challenge, to communicate the availability of both types of products on one platform. On this topic as well as the FAQ/dress cleaning subject, taking inspiration from how streetwear marketplaces is a great suggestion.
Here's a niche worth looking into: Women's attire for formal music recitals and performances. My experience is limited to being a parent of a classical music student. Every musician ends up needing a variety of outfits for performances of different kinds, and for women, a solo performance tends to demand something akin to a formal dress. Shopping for such a thing is a pain in the arse, but they'll buy one and wear it over an over if it works.
In addition to looking good, the dress has to work meaning that it can't interfere with playing an instrument or singing. Not having ever worn such a thing, I can't guess what is needed, but there are endless performance videos on YouTube of concert performers, and you can imagine that someone like Hilary Hahn has figured out what works by now.
Dresses that fit younger girls would also be a thing.
Being a male musician, I'm kind of lucky that I can get away with something that's 100% generic. I bought a used tuxedo, almost a quarter century ago, and have worn it hundreds of times. Every musician male or female, also owns a set of "concert black," which is black shirt and black pants.
Congrats on the launch! Here's a niche worth looking into: Women's attire for formal music recitals and performances. My experience is limited to being a parent of a classical music student. Every musician ends up needing a variety of outfits for performances of different kinds, and for women, a solo performance tends to demand something akin to a formal dress. Shopping for such a thing is a pain in the arse, but the…
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Sorry, I didn’t mean my comment to come off so negatively. I do wish the team the best of luck and think that reimagining aspects of the fashion industry is a very worthy ambition.
Haha thank you. For context, we launched on iOS, Android, and web within the same year, which has helped our marketplace grow, but we’ve since realized that we are outgrowing our engineering capacity (all done by me, a proud but headstrong full stack engineer ). Definitely maintaining a high sense of UX quality is one of our priorities, especially as we are trying to hire and dedicate better engineering resources to…
second, i don't know if this is just my browser, but the images associated with step 1/2/3 (step 2 is missing) are vertically stretched kind of wrong, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/Hr63i0q.png
other than that, i strongly commend you for not using some kind of auto-hiding animation on the sticky header. and also not using animations in general. good call.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean my comment to come off so negatively. I do wish the team the best of luck and think that reimagining aspects of the fashion industry is a very worthy ambition.
Haha thank you. For context, we launched on iOS, Android, and web within the same year, which has helped our marketplace grow, but we’ve since realized that we are outgrowing our engineering capacity (all done by me, a proud but headstrong full stack engineer ). Definitely maintaining a high sense of UX quality is one of our priorities, especially as we are trying to hire and dedicate better engineering resources to…
