"I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
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Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#2That's easy: This person has no idea why Walmart is successful. Walmart's success has little to nothing to do with convenience. It has everything to do with economies of scale, being able to apply pressure to your suppliers, and efficient inventory tracking and prediction. The proposed website benefits from none of these...
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#3The website actually exists, too:
It's worth checking out.
It's almost as though someone built this as an object lesson in the horrors of losing focus. This idea is terrible – and the design tells you all you need. Look at all that. It's like a piñata full of services exploded all over their homepage.
Wal-Mart also has one of the worst customer experiences ever – so we can snark all we want but this guy has succeeded in his goal in at least one dimension.
edit: Also, who is giving this "business" $20k to work with?
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#4Checking out the site, it's actually pretty impressive. Not in the well-designed sense, but in the having-an-actual-product sense (even if it's, you know, a blatant ripoff of the sites he listed...http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/ feels like it takes the cake in that regard). I'm curious about where he got his funding from.
Edit: The alt-text for his "Blog" image is literally 'scritter'. My co-workers are giving me funny looks.
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#5Checking out the site, it's actually pretty impressive. Not in the well-designed sense, but in the having-an-actual-product sense (even if it's, you know, a blatant ripoff of the sites he listed... http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/ feels like it takes the cake in that regard). I'm curious about where he got his funding from. Edit: The alt-text for his "Blog" image is literally 'scritter'. My co-workers are giving m…
"the ultimate micro blogging website"
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#6Um, there is an online one stop shop for everything called Amazon. And there's eBay.
... and he's trying to do this on $20k?
... and he wants to have a global consumer-oriented business website without a .com domain?
... and the whole "one-stop shop" concept stops becoming appealing when going to a specialty store takes two clicks instead of driving two miles.
Also, the design of the actual site leaves ... something to be desired: http://www.globalcommunity.me/
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#7Um, there is an online one stop shop for everything called Amazon. And there's eBay. ... and he's trying to do this on $20k? ... and he wants to have a global consumer-oriented business website without a .com domain? ... and the whole "one-stop shop" concept stops becoming appealing when going to a specialty store takes two clicks instead of driving two miles. Also, the design of the actual site leaves ... something…
The fact that it takes longer to get to the auction section of the site than to just type in "http://www.ebay.com is a warning sign too. I bet he did this on a free server, because it's really slow.
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#8Checking out the site, it's actually pretty impressive. Not in the well-designed sense, but in the having-an-actual-product sense (even if it's, you know, a blatant ripoff of the sites he listed... http://www.globalcommunity.me/blog/ feels like it takes the cake in that regard). I'm curious about where he got his funding from. Edit: The alt-text for his "Blog" image is literally 'scritter'. My co-workers are giving m…
I laughed out loud when I clicked that page. His mascot looks like the Twitter bird on meth.
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#9It looks like he intends to create his vision by buying a domain, buying a "{x}.com clone script" for each of the sites he mentioned, and installing them each in a subdirectory of his domain. They're not connected in any meaningful way, be it in terms of unified login or design.
Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"
#10It looks like he intends to create his vision by buying a domain, buying a "{x}.com clone script" for each of the sites he mentioned, and installing them each in a subdirectory of his domain. They're not connected in any meaningful way, be it in terms of unified login or design.
Did you actually sign up for one? It seems more sketchy than I'm willing to do anything with. Like the next generation of a domain-sitting page.