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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by AlexC04 »

7Figures2Commas wrote: post #31
rootedbox wrote: post #23

If you made this as a commercial venture you are probably infringing on these celebrities personality rights.

Not to mention the copyrights of the photographers who took the photos, assuming these haven't been licensed. The companies and freelance photographers who focus on the celebrity market are some of the most aggressive you'll encounter in protecting their rights.

Yes. $2.1m suit against Perez Hilton who was linking to a store carrying the outfit.

http://petapixel.com/2013/06/29/nytimes-photographer-sues-pe...

Interesting to note that all the major online gossip rags appear to have links to outfits already.

The personality rights probably have no bearing with respect to paparazzi photos.

Still, I love the "do this but for Bollywood" suggestion.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

gnarbarian wrote: post #9
jadlimcaco wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely appreciate it. The reason for these outfits being more "normal" is because our goal is for most people to actually be able to wear these outfits. But we do plan on doing some crazy outfits in the future. Thanks again!

I feel the same way. I think that "CelebrityOutfits" as a domain would suit the content of your site a bit better. Because when you say "FamousOutfits" It makes it sound like the outfit is famous not the person wearing it. "Oufits Of the Famous" would work too I suppose but it's not as catchy. "FamousX" will probably remind a lot of people of "Famous Footwear" which you may or may not want to be associated with. I wa…

Thanks for the feedback. We choose this particular domain because of availability, but we are also currently building out another aspect of the site that will tie into the "famousoutfits" name better than "celebrity".

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

coldpie wrote: post #126
gnarbarian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same way. I think that "CelebrityOutfits" as a domain would suit the content of your site a bit better. Because when you say "FamousOutfits" It makes it sound like the outfit is famous not the person wearing it. "Oufits Of the Famous" would work too I suppose but it's not as catchy. "FamousX" will probably remind a lot of people of "Famous Footwear" which you may or may not want to be associated with. I wa…

On the other hand, that's a whole lot of extrapolation from the domain that could be cleared up simply by visiting the website. There was a discussion here recently about not spending too much time thinking about your product's name. I don't think it's worth setting up a new domain.

Thanks for chiming in. We think the name is simple and memorable. We were shocked the domain name was available.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

whatnottt wrote: post #12

You know what would make this a lot better? Packaging it up so that one wouldn't have to go to 10 different stores to pick the items up. I'd order straight away and pay a premium to save the hazzle. A logistics challenge for sure, but you'd have at least one customer right here.

Great idea. We've been discussing this how to get this done. It would be a game changer. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

tabrischen wrote: post #59
whatnottt wrote: post #12

You know what would make this a lot better? Packaging it up so that one wouldn't have to go to 10 different stores to pick the items up. I'd order straight away and pay a premium to save the hazzle. A logistics challenge for sure, but you'd have at least one customer right here.

Indeed, you can use plugins like http://varinode.com/ that allows customers to make purchase on the site itself.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

DaveLond wrote: post #109
richmarr wrote: post #105

The main scalability issue with this is that the products you've found will quickly go out of stock, so as you build up a collection of outfits you'll face an increasing burden going back and checking all of the products to see if they're in stock (or risk damaging your brand). I worked on something similar back in 2008. We were looking at ways of monetising our visual similarity engine. We could mark a set of query…

Isn't that problem self-solving? Who wants to dress like a celebrity dressed last season- you want what they're wearing this season. Keep it up to date, with what's "in" now. Disclaimer: I know nothing about fashion.

Good point. I don't think it takes a fashionista to realize that, lol.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

drinkzima wrote: post #57

Pretty similar to what you see in lots of magazines: http://www.instyle.co.uk/fashion/get-the-look And the celeb style guide: http://www.celebritystyleguide.com/

Thanks for the feedback. We've found most sites like this are focused on women only. It was our goal to create a great resource for men too.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jadlimcaco »

kentbrew wrote: post #24

This looks pretty neat and you did a great job with your Pin It buttons. You may wish to consider adding this META: ... to the HEAD of any page that already has a Pin It button aboard. This will tell the Pinterest browser extension not to bother showing hoverbuttons on this page.

Thanks for the kind words. I'll take a look at this.
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