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Auctomatic in open beta now

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Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

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Post by palish »

Congrats! Some first impressions:

- http://www.auctomatic.com/app/username is a little strange. Would it be a big headache to remap it to http://www.auctomatic.com/username?

- It would be really neat if you could have a preview button when you're setting up your auction that generates a full preview. That is, the preview would generate HTML identical to Ebay's but with your auction info.

Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

#3

Post by phil »

palish wrote: post #2

Congrats! Some first impressions: - http://www.auctomatic.com/app/username is a little strange. Would it be a big headache to remap it to http://www.auctomatic.com/username ? - It would be really neat if you could have a preview button when you're setting up your auction that generates a full preview. That is, the preview would generate HTML identical to Ebay's but with your auction info.

Thanks for the feedback!

On your points:

- To prefix or not to prefix is always a tradeoff (as in, http://twitter.com/ev vs. http://google.com/a/foo.com). We wanted to keep some of that tasty top level namespace open, and figured /app/ would be an easy prefix to remember.

- That's definitely a good point, and something we're quite likely to do soon.

Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

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Post by palish »

phil wrote: post #3
palish wrote: post #2

Congrats! Some first impressions: - http://www.auctomatic.com/app/username is a little strange. Would it be a big headache to remap it to http://www.auctomatic.com/username ? - It would be really neat if you could have a preview button when you're setting up your auction that generates a full preview. That is, the preview would generate HTML identical to Ebay's but with your auction info.

Thanks for the feedback! On your points: - To prefix or not to prefix is always a tradeoff (as in, http://twitter.com/ev vs. http://google.com/a/foo.com ). We wanted to keep some of that tasty top level namespace open, and figured /app/ would be an easy prefix to remember. - That's definitely a good point, and something we're quite likely to do soon.

Maybe if you made it easier to identify with? For example, 'my' or 'i' or 'im' instead of app.

Also, points for not requiring an ebay account until absolutely needed. A+++++ will visit again

Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

#7

Post by sri »

trying to confuse the competition? :-) (where XXXXXXX is the site name and YYYYYYY is the session id (?)).

looks great though!!

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX_run.py?=YYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_main.asp=YYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_autoexec.bat=YYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_run.arc=YYYYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_dispatch.fortran=YYYYYYY

Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

#8

Post by phil »

By the way, we've also got a reddit style site set up for requesting features at: http://features.auctomatic.com

Thus far we've mostly used it internally to track requests people have emailed us, but it's time to open it up. So, if you signed up for an Auctomatic account and have some ideas, we'd love to hear about them.

Thanks!

Re: Auctomatic in open beta now

#10

Post by byrneseyeview »

sri wrote: post #7

trying to confuse the competition? :-) (where XXXXXXX is the site name and YYYYYYY is the session id (?)). looks great though!! https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX_run.py?=YYYYYYYY https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_main.asp=YYYYYYYY https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_autoexec.bat=YYYYYY https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_run.arc=YYYYYYYYYY https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_dispatch.fortran=YYYYYYY

Didn't pg say somewhere that Viaweb included cgi-bin in urls for the same reason?

Edit: Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4625

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