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Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

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Post by trhaynes »

sulldc wrote: post #21
manuelflara wrote: post #10

Great work, love the design. One thing I'd like to see before I sign up, though, is a sample "product / purchase page". When I needed something like this I ran to Gumroad because I had used them before (as a customer) and loved the experience.

(I work at CropUp, I'm the designer there.) Thanks! That's a great point and we're in the process of creating a few more product screenshots and possibly a video demo to cycle in that header area. In the mean time feel free to take a look at it here: http://crop.to/fW

I notice that my shirt size isn't included on the final confirmation page. Seems like it should be.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

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Post by robgaafar »

manuelflara wrote: post #59
manuelflara wrote: post #10

Great work, love the design. One thing I'd like to see before I sign up, though, is a sample "product / purchase page". When I needed something like this I ran to Gumroad because I had used them before (as a customer) and loved the experience.

Much better! I really, really like the design. Better than Gumroad IMO. On the other hand, I would highlight a bit more or add more contrast to the link "My shipping address is not in the US", just in case. Other than that, it would be great to have a "test product" just like this but where we wouldn't need to input real CC details, just to check out the whole process, emails being sent, etc. Anyway, on what I've see…

(I work at CropUp, I'm the founder)

Thanks for the feedback and we're working on a test product feature for sellers.

Yes, we only support physical products for now. Digital goods will be coming soon.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

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Post by pfredrich »

trhaynes wrote: post #61
sulldc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I work at CropUp, I'm the designer there.) Thanks! That's a great point and we're in the process of creating a few more product screenshots and possibly a video demo to cycle in that header area. In the mean time feel free to take a look at it here: http://crop.to/fW

I notice that my shirt size isn't included on the final confirmation page. Seems like it should be.

(I do product at CropUp.)

Outsch. We're fixing that as we speak. Our apologies.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#64

Post by alexmic »

jackseviltwin wrote: post #25
eduardordm wrote: post #9

I know you guys are overwhelmed with work by now, but I really want to know how was your experience with AngularJS.

(I'm the tech lead at CropUp) I'm surprised how well AngularJS has worked for us. Currently, we're using it for the shopping checkout page and also for the merchant dashboard. The dashboard is all driven by AngularJS (using $resource/$http api calls). The checkout page is more like Twitter, in that we preload data in the DOM when it's rendered, but there are API calls via AngularJS to create the order, check quantity…

Did the limitation of having only one ng-view affect your project at all? I'm embarking on a new project using Angular and there are mixed opinions on the web. People that were shouting against it have come back saying that it's actually not so bad [1].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/angular/...

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#65

Post by pfredrich »

manuelflara wrote: post #60
pfredrich wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I do product at CroUp.) We see shopping cart providers as our competition and they usually charge setup and/or monthly fees, which we do not. Given the value and functionalities our product provides we feel our pricing is fair, but we're open to structuring it differently in the future depending on market feedback, like volume or product price based, or we introduce a premium account with a monthly fee but lower per…

I'm sure people who don't know about other direct competitors (Gumroad, etc) will see it as an alternative to a more elabore shopping cart or ecommerce site, and in that case 10% may be a no brainer. But if someone -like myself- knows about both alternatives, I may use CropUp initially but if I get some decent volume, I'd switch to Gumroad unless you guys had a 5% option for higher volume customers.

(I do product at CropUp.)

Fair point. We're open to exploring other pricing structures based on the market feedback we'll get. In general, goal is to rather be the Apple of eCommerce than the Dell. (Well, that sounds cheesy and not in a good way :) Sorry.) We don't want to be the cheapest service but the one that provides our sellers with the most value.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#66

Post by pfredrich »

guru_shastry wrote: post #24

Looks great. One thing I was looking for is a demo/test purchase. As a seller I want to know how it looks like to buy my product. In general, a sandbox with a bunch of test products and credit card numbers would make it a lot easier to adopt. Good luck.

(I do product at CropUp.)

You're right. We need to -- and will -- figure something out to better convey the buyers' end to end experience to people interested in using our service to sell their products.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#67

Post by eduardordm »

alexmic wrote: post #64
jackseviltwin wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm the tech lead at CropUp) I'm surprised how well AngularJS has worked for us. Currently, we're using it for the shopping checkout page and also for the merchant dashboard. The dashboard is all driven by AngularJS (using $resource/$http api calls). The checkout page is more like Twitter, in that we preload data in the DOM when it's rendered, but there are API calls via AngularJS to create the order, check quantity…

Did the limitation of having only one ng-view affect your project at all? I'm embarking on a new project using Angular and there are mixed opinions on the web. People that were shouting against it have come back saying that it's actually not so bad [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/angular/...

ng-view is not simply a view (I think the name confuses most users), if you want multiple ng-views you will probably need more routers. Maybe there are some use cases for it, I just can't really think of one. You will pretty much split your application in N.

You really really really really want to keep those kind of things in directives.

Anyway, I read about it sometime ago on a github issue it is 'planned'.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#68

Post by jackseviltwin »

alexmic wrote: post #64
jackseviltwin wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm the tech lead at CropUp) I'm surprised how well AngularJS has worked for us. Currently, we're using it for the shopping checkout page and also for the merchant dashboard. The dashboard is all driven by AngularJS (using $resource/$http api calls). The checkout page is more like Twitter, in that we preload data in the DOM when it's rendered, but there are API calls via AngularJS to create the order, check quantity…

Did the limitation of having only one ng-view affect your project at all? I'm embarking on a new project using Angular and there are mixed opinions on the web. People that were shouting against it have come back saying that it's actually not so bad [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/angular/...

(Tech lead @ CropUp)

In the first iteration, we thought multiple ngViews would have been useful, but it didn't prevent us from achieving the design we wanted. You can use ngInclude to accomplish a similar effect, if you don't need the routing.

AngularUI seems to have a solution for nested views/routing here (https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router). Although, I would think about your routes and the pieces of your web application and rethink whether you really need ngView. Using ngIncludes for pieces you want to reuse might make more sense.

edit: for clarity

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#69

Post by pfredrich »

Tihiy wrote: post #47
jollari wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey I'm curious as to what you mean by a purchase notification API? Would you imagine something like a pub/sub system or something that you would ping?

I mean something like PayPal IPN or another system which notifies my server about a purchase so I can send digital good to buyer e-mail for example.

(I do product at CropUp.)

For digital goods, we'd handle the fulfillment for you. Goal is to make it dead simple and to provide everything you'd need, so you don't have to use any other services or do any coding.

Still, a server to server notification would be a good thing to have, no concrete plans or timing yet though.

Thanks for your feedback.

Re: Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

#70

Post by pooMonger »

pfredrich wrote: post #65
manuelflara wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure people who don't know about other direct competitors (Gumroad, etc) will see it as an alternative to a more elabore shopping cart or ecommerce site, and in that case 10% may be a no brainer. But if someone -like myself- knows about both alternatives, I may use CropUp initially but if I get some decent volume, I'd switch to Gumroad unless you guys had a 5% option for higher volume customers.

(I do product at CropUp.) Fair point. We're open to exploring other pricing structures based on the market feedback we'll get. In general, goal is to rather be the Apple of eCommerce than the Dell. (Well, that sounds cheesy and not in a good way :) Sorry.) We don't want to be the cheapest service but the one that provides our sellers with the most value.

One interesting avenue for providing further value so that people might not balk at the 10% fee (as witnessed by a few skeptics in this thread), would be to perhaps provide next-day shipped shipping labels for merchants.

It seems that since the orders will be coming through CropUp, why not hold the hand of the merchant just a few steps further? Intake orders, print shipping labels, provide shipping materials to merchants, One-Stop-Shop concept.

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