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Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#1
url - http://www.looklookbuy.com

Hey HN!

Two other HNers (Oompa and Zarathu) and I have gotten together to create Looklookbuy. We grew frustrated of having to jump from site to site, Craigslist to Amazon to eBay, etc, to find product prices. So we started work on Looklookbuy to hopefully alleviate some of those frustrations, in the hopes of others finding the service useful as well. We still have many things we'd like to implement, and are close to implementing, like more filtering options to help clean up the noise, and the ability to 'save' an ad via email. We do know that results can get a bit noisy and are working to change that, and are open to suggestions. We wanted to show you all what we had so far, and hope to use your feedback to make the site much better!

Some questions:

-Do you find it useful?

-What do you like/hate?

-What would you change?

-How would you increase the signal/noise ratio?

Some things we will be adding soon:

-Pagination

-Common words filter

-Saving ads via email

-More websites added to each product category

-More details regarding the individual product results

Thank you very much to those who will leave feedback/criticisms. We really value this community's opinions.

Follow us on Twitter @looklookbuy, if you wish.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#6
Wow!! This is nice. I like the simplicity.

Can you please add an "All" for the category section? Sometimes I'd like to see all the results for a certain search term.

Instead of using the slider UI for the price range can we have text boxes, the slider is not very user-friendly when I am trying to pick a range of 0-300 when the whole range is 0-5000.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#8
Hmm, very nice. I like the layout, nice UI, very clean.

I would be nice if you tapped into some geolocation to provide my default location (let me change it of course) so I only had to fill in two fields (or possibly even one) to see some relevant results.

Congrats on launching, and I wish you the best of luck!

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#9
post #6

Wow!! This is nice. I like the simplicity. Can you please add an "All" for the category section? Sometimes I'd like to see all the results for a certain search term. Instead of using the slider UI for the price range can we have text boxes, the slider is not very user-friendly when I am trying to pick a range of 0-300 when the whole range is 0-5000.

The all category seems interesting, we'll look into it.

We've been toying with this idea because of exactly the reason you mentioned. It's even worse if you search something and all the results are $0-$200 except for one that's $1000. We've also considered removing from the list the ones that are larger than a certain percentage of the average, to help keep the list more on target.

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