Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by tomsaffell » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:02 PM UTC

Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase
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Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by tomsaffell » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

You can use it on Amazon too. Just type 'amazon' into the search/go-to box.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by leelin » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

Grats guys!

There are so many times when I try pasting a shopping link to friends in chat, and when they click thru, it breaks because either

  (1) GTalk / chat client garbles the URL 
  (2) something in the query string was unique to my account
  (3) some kind of cookie / session interplay made the link fail.

I know Plurchase is solving a lot more than this problem, but there is no doubt a more integrated collaborative shopping experience beats the ad hoc solutions we have today.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by catch23 » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:23 PM UTC

The blog (http://blog.plurchase.com/) contains a few frequently asked questions about tech, etc

The tech is probably harder than it looks on the surface.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by lrzhou » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC

I think you should make plurchase completely public, so that I can see everyone (and they can see me). That way, I don't have to invite my friends to shop + I can spy on other people (making it fun even when none of my friends are online).

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:54 PM UTC

lrzhou wrote: post #5

I think you should make plurchase completely public, so that I can see everyone (and they can see me). That way, I don't have to invite my friends to shop + I can spy on other people (making it fun even when none of my friends are online).

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Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by jeffDef » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:55 PM UTC

lrzhou wrote: post #5

I think you should make plurchase completely public, so that I can see everyone (and they can see me). That way, I don't have to invite my friends to shop + I can spy on other people (making it fun even when none of my friends are online).

We plan on supporting both public & private. Mostly just UI work to add the public functionality. One idea: when in a public shopping group/room, we'd replace the little preview boxes with a stream of just-product-pages as people visit them.

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Post by arithmetic » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:56 PM UTC

Plurchase uses a neat idea to act as a proxy for shopping sites. They don't seem to be storing passwords before sending them off to the actual sites (which is good). I hope it takes off. Good luck!

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by joez » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 10:01 PM UTC

I'm not too sure of the technology that goes on behind your proxy but I just had an issue connecting to the server from behind my corporate firewall. Is this something you guys plan on tackling?

I think a lot of people shop online at work and many of those are behind firewalls. A quick online search threw numbers at me like 50% and scaling upwards to like 75% as you get into the "facebook generation."

Btw, great product. I also love how when I tried to test if it was a browser issue and loaded up IE that it notified me that my browser was "too old."

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by catch23 » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 10:08 PM UTC

joez wrote: post #9

I'm not too sure of the technology that goes on behind your proxy but I just had an issue connecting to the server from behind my corporate firewall. Is this something you guys plan on tackling? I think a lot of people shop online at work and many of those are behind firewalls. A quick online search threw numbers at me like 50% and scaling upwards to like 75% as you get into the "facebook generation." Btw, great prod…

I don't know why it wouldn't work behind a firewall though -- everything goes through port 80. I use it behind a firewall too. Maybe your corporate firewall does more than just firewall packets, does it block sites with questionable content as well?