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#11
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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!

Thanks!

Good suggestion about the geolocation, I really like it. I'll be sure to look into it.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#12
Very cool!

To increase the signal/noise ratio, I'd love to specify that I'm looking for a product, and not accessories for a product. For example, I just searched for a camera I'm looking to buy. The first large set of results were accessories for that camera, and since they're cheaper than the camera itself, they showed up first.

Great start!

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#13
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Why are the results loaded through javascript? can't they just be rendered server side?

I like the name.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#14
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.

Awesome!

2nd on the 'All' selection in the categories (and have it default to it as well) and text boxes for price ranges. But maybe you can have the ranges auto-populate and just give us the ability to define the range if need be. Also starting it off at zero kinda throws my reaction to the search results since at zero the results would most likely not show the product I was searching for and instead return accessories, etc. You might want to have the prices default at midrange.

Otherwise, loving the layout and simplicity. Ya'll rocked it!

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#15

Very cool! To increase the signal/noise ratio, I'd love to specify that I'm looking for a product, and not accessories for a product. For example, I just searched for a camera I'm looking to buy. The first large set of results were accessories for that camera, and since they're cheaper than the camera itself, they showed up first. Great start!

Yea I noticed that, but that's because the price range set by the slider starts at '0' so it shows the cheapest products first which would most usually be accessories or other related items but NOT the product itself.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#16

Very cool! To increase the signal/noise ratio, I'd love to specify that I'm looking for a product, and not accessories for a product. For example, I just searched for a camera I'm looking to buy. The first large set of results were accessories for that camera, and since they're cheaper than the camera itself, they showed up first. Great start!

Yeah, this is one of the problems that we've been dealing with for a while, and we're still not sure how to really go about eliminating product accessories when the user is simply looking for that product.

Unfortunately, this comes up whenever you search websites like Craigslist or eBay, so without getting really creative, there's not a whole lot we can do to completely get rid of this problem.

I'm glad we were able to do it a little bit with cars and car parts.

Thanks for your feedback!

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#19
post #13

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue. Script: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js:... --- Why are the results loaded through javascript? can't they just be rendered server side? I like the name.

Because then the page response would take a few seconds. We figured this was undesirable.

Re: Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

#20

Perhaps automatically filters to sane prices? If you search for iphone 3gs, first few pages are all really cheap (either accessories or have some catch associated with them), not particularly useful unless specifically requested.

We're playing with the notion of letting people filter out based on a percentage away from the average price. That or doing it before we even put the results in the page.
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