Buy these 9 things

#1

Post by acoyfellow » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:45 PM UTC

Re: Buy these 9 things

#2

Post by acoyfellow » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

Would love some crit on this as a business idea.. I'm heavily inspired by everything I see and read here on HN. If you have a moment, read the F.A.Q if you have minor questions. If you could leave any comments here, they will be treasured.

I'd appreciate it more than you could know.

Re: Buy these 9 things

#3

Post by kjhughes » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

I like the nice, clean design, and you have cool things listed.

What are your plans for generating traffic? A major challenge will be that Google expects affiliate sites to add value and won't rank "thin" affiliates high in search results. How will Buythese9things.com overcome this obstacle, or will you have other ways to bring in users?

Re: Buy these 9 things

#4

Post by callmeed » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

acoyfellow wrote: post #2

Would love some crit on this as a business idea.. I'm heavily inspired by everything I see and read here on HN. If you have a moment, read the F.A.Q if you have minor questions. If you could leave any comments here, they will be treasured. I'd appreciate it more than you could know.

So, what's the play here? Do I get to create my own 9 things? (FYI I was hoping I could).

Re: Buy these 9 things

#5

Post by helipad » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Seems like a more executive-toyish version of Justin Oullette's theshittoget.com

Why would someone go to the site though? (this post notwithstanding)

Re: Buy these 9 things

#6

Post by MidwestMuster » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #4

acoyfellow wrote: post #2

Would love some crit on this as a business idea.. I'm heavily inspired by everything I see and read here on HN. If you have a moment, read the F.A.Q if you have minor questions. If you could leave any comments here, they will be treasured. I'd appreciate it more than you could know.

So, what's the play here? Do I get to create my own 9 things? (FYI I was hoping I could).

Or give me sliders so I can crank down fashion and crank up geek toys!

Re: Buy these 9 things

#7

Post by m0skit0 » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:57 PM UTC

Cool page. Although I would never put a pixel of mine inside a StarBucks shop.

Re: Buy these 9 things

#8

Post by acoyfellow » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

kjhughes wrote: post #3

I like the nice, clean design, and you have cool things listed. What are your plans for generating traffic? A major challenge will be that Google expects affiliate sites to add value and won't rank "thin" affiliates high in search results. How will Buythese9things.com overcome this obstacle, or will you have other ways to bring in users?

Traffic: I am figuring out which keywords I want to attack- but I play on going on the paid ad's route for traffic. Hopefully I can get a good base of "fans" who check back now and again to see a new set of items. I have future plans to either allow comments, or to basically write some content on each item. Hopefully that will be good enough for google?

This is also one of my main concerns- and I think it could be one of my largest. I also plan on making this a new way for me Personally to sell items- so over time people come to understand that these items are curated by me, and they either come to trust or distrust (and not come back) my taste

Re: Buy these 9 things

#9

Post by cpfohl » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:02 PM UTC

acoyfellow wrote: post #2

Would love some crit on this as a business idea.. I'm heavily inspired by everything I see and read here on HN. If you have a moment, read the F.A.Q if you have minor questions. If you could leave any comments here, they will be treasured. I'd appreciate it more than you could know.

Comments: 1. Fun idea. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you easily made your money back. 2. Easy to navigate. Design is clean, but my desire for symmetry (in this case radial) is rebelling at the poor Lean Startup book all by its lonesome at the bottom of the page. Maybe a 3x3 grid? 3. I like the idea @MidwestMuster had of having sliders to adjust the types of 9 things you see. It allows you to still only show nine things, but have a wider variety of things available (thus increasing the liklihood of getting a sale). Also it increases the interaction, which will increase the engagement, even if it doesn't mess w/ sales.

Re: Buy these 9 things

#10

Post by bdpuk » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

Any thoughts on hooking it up to amazon wish lists or using some sort of recently visited css hack to "guess" what people have been looking at recently? Or even hooking it up to twitter/facebook to see what products users and friends of users are talking about and rounding it down to 9?