Awesome work. Love the simplicity.
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#92To me this seems to hit the same market as Etsy. People who spend their time creating things, selling one-off items, are just going online so that they can put it on a business card, ect would use something like this. I showed this to a girl who I was just talking to about putting her stuff on Etsy, she likes this FAR more, but the only thing she wanted was to use her own domain.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be having some kind of setup where people can use their own domain for their site for sure.
Yes, this would be key. I have a few friends I'll recommend this service too as soon as this is implemented. Also, how much of a cut of sales do you guys take? Or are you thinking a monthly subscription model?
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#93This 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 try…
Cheers for the feedback, these are all things we need to think about and your suggestions for the cart are spot on. In terms of shipping, we stripped it down in the seller config to just postage is included in prices, with a dropdown to specify where you shipping to. We'll sort out options for postage prices by item/ by order later on.
Please do! At the moment it seems only possible to offer different shipping rates by duplicating the product. So Fender guitar for US, Fender guitar for EU, etc. This is a bit of a blocker, other than that I'd love to get something up and running.
Really great effort!
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#94Really well executed. Simple, clean, elegant. This was a lot of fun to set up the first time! I know it's the mvp but I wanted quantity support on listings & adding to cart, and I immediately missed the ability to define a per-item shipping cost separately from the price of the item (keeps perceived pricing lower). Great first pass, and with a little polish could be a pretty excellent tool.
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#95I find this quite brilliant. I'm a fan of simplicity and minimalism, and this is a good example of implementing the bare-minimum and getting something useful out of it. I'm actually a bit jealous I didn't think of it first. Good work, and good luck to you!
> minimalism
> bare-minimum
Hum, I don't think adding a Change your background function should be included in a minimal site.
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#96MVP 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!
It's a cool concept and you could go a lot of directions with it. My main feedback is that I don't know which step to take next. I see 6 links in the yellow bar ... be a little more deliberate/forceful in directing me on what to do next. Not that you asked, but here's some wacky/random ideas off the top of my head: - Do Stripe checkout in addition to PayPal (ask for Stripe API key & secret over SSL) - Provision a Twi…
My main feedback is that I don't know which step to take next. I see 6 links in the yellow bar ... be a little more deliberate/forceful in directing me on what to do next.
I agree with this one. There's already a "Now Click Here" button at the start. I'd suggest extending that concept to successive pages until the seller has filled in whatever info you think most pages should have. Sidebar and config come to mind as two that most people will want to fill out.
And perhaps during that first time there should be a stronger visual emphasis on the top buttons so that customers are more likely to link them to the options they're seeing.
On the whole, though, it looks great. Nice MVP.
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#97I wish it would crawl images.google.com to automatically add pictures of the things in my list .. that would make it terrific.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be having some kind of setup where people can use their own domain for their site for sure.
Yes, this would be key. I have a few friends I'll recommend this service too as soon as this is implemented. Also, how much of a cut of sales do you guys take? Or are you thinking a monthly subscription model?
Cool. We're thinking a monthly subscription. We're still working out final pricing.
Re: Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area
#99I find this quite brilliant. I'm a fan of simplicity and minimalism, and this is a good example of implementing the bare-minimum and getting something useful out of it. I'm actually a bit jealous I didn't think of it first. Good work, and good luck to you!
> minimalism > bare-minimum Hum, I don't think adding a Change your background function should be included in a minimal site.
well you've caught us on that point! but a little frivolity is ok too, right? "A little madness now and then, is relished by the wisest men" - Mr Willy Wonka.
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#100I found a glitch while creating my store.
I couldn't add more than one item, even when I copied and pasted your code from the front page (sample) directly.