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Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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MVP for YC'12 application. We've been heads down on this for a month now so it seemed like the right time to gather some feedback!

This is the first time I've deployed on Heroku so any advice would be brilliant. If you get any errors, please email us on support@listofthingsforsale.com.

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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Really nice interface. Kudos there.

Who are your target users, people using Etsy or eBay? Are you competing with other services like those on ease of use alone? For people looking to buy things, will you provide some search across all users or are you just giving your sellers a link they can promote?

Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

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This is terrific.

Some small comments:

* When I click on "checkout", a few things are not clear: how much is shipping (seems to be free?), how long will shipping take, etc.

* I put something with an "&" in the title into my shopping cart. On the PayPal landing page, it turns into &. Also, the item description is "shopid: x, itemid: y", which is not very helpful, especially if it's two months from now and I'm trying to remember what I purchased.

* The list of item in the shopping cart should be links, not text.

* It's an MVP, so I'm sure this is on your "next steps" list, but it would be nice to delete specific items from the cart instead of having to clear the whole cart.

* There's a Login/Signup link at the top, but it's not clear what the benefits of Signup would be. Clicking on the link doesn't reveal the benefits either.

Again, this is awesome.

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