Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by aresant » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 10:43 PM UTC

Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo
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Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by sbierwagen » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

And... their site is being crushed by the traffic.

EDIT: Finally loaded, and the site is a giant SWF file? Seriously?

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by cypherpunks01 » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:36 AM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #2

And... their site is being crushed by the traffic. EDIT: Finally loaded, and the site is a giant SWF file? Seriously?

   58 requests  ❘  1.70MB transferred

Yikes!

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by sparky » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:51 AM UTC

"You can go on Vastrm’s site and take a short quiz, entering height, weight, body type and waste size.."

What does that have to do with anything?

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by hassy » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:52 AM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #2

And... their site is being crushed by the traffic. EDIT: Finally loaded, and the site is a giant SWF file? Seriously?

Perhaps they have more interesting problems to solve than "how do we build our UI in HTML5"?

Getting a shirt that will fit well ranks much higher in most people's priorities than using only HTML-based webapps.

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:55 AM UTC

sparky wrote: post #4

"You can go on Vastrm’s site and take a short quiz, entering height, weight, body type and waste size .." What does that have to do with anything?

It very much influences the fit of your shirt.

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by BadassFractal » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:56 AM UTC

Perfectly fitting clothes is a pretty hard problem to solve without human intervention (a tailor). Sites like BlankLabel do a decent job at getting you a dress shirt that will fit you alright, but it's not quite there yet. The shipping times are quite long, and the cost is very high unless you go for the rather disappointing fabrics.

Affordable, rapidly produced and perfectly fitting clothes would be a dream.

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by zacharyb » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:57 AM UTC

I have an idea, let's make the entire site using Flash, it will be super awesome!

cache:vastrm.com = "get adobe flash player"...

Fail.

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by StavrosK » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 12:58 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #6

sparky wrote: post #4

"You can go on Vastrm’s site and take a short quiz, entering height, weight, body type and waste size .." What does that have to do with anything?

It very much influences the fit of your shirt.

The fit of my shit, maybe.

Because it doesn't say "waist", see.

Re: Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

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Post by rdl » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 1:03 AM UTC

This looks like it could be really useful, although the pricing is a lot worse than my current "buy 20x Lands End polos when they go on sale" strategy.

For dress shirts/buttondown or suits/pants, I haven't found any of the online vendors to be as good as W W Chan in HK or Shanghai.