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Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who us
by jl 11y ago
Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1.
I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look beautiful and not be annoying in the countless ways it seems to be currently :)
- jameshk 11y agoThanks for making this! Lots of great ideas, and it's easily readable.
- pavornyoh 11y agoFor what you set out to accomplish in the short amount of time you had, it works and good job. Really like Instapainting and just forwarded it on to a few people:).
- rokhayakebe 11y agoNot knowing who made it and why, my first reaction was: "I won't be buying anything, but I want THIS UI for my online shopping."
- matt_morgan 11y agoNext year be ready for Hanukkah and I'm on board :-). You did a nice job.
- jl 11y agoFor sure in time for Hanukkah!
- pavornyoh 11y agoI know you did this for the holidays but why not just let it continue after the holidays? For example, it can be YC Online store (small one) where little things can be purchased from exclusively. So instead of buying Founders at work from Amazon, it can come from the YC store instead? Just a food for thought..
- tedmiston 11y agoIf anyone in the world understands MVP, you'd think it would be this audience.
- codingdave 11y agoMy one bit of feedback is that if this is intended for holiday gifts, you should not list items unless they are actually shipping. Pre-orders are not good gifts.
- jl 11y agoFixed using "pre-order" category.
- spoinkaroo 11y agoOut of curiosity, why did you alphabetize the site? Wouldn't some other sorting method be more productive / feature solid products which happen be late in the alphabet more?
- jl 11y agoNow arranged by categories.
- baldajan 11y agoHonestly, it's fantastic! I couldn't tell it was made with Strikingly until the end. The images used, the division of products and copy layout are done really well. In regards to concept, I think it's great YC is promoting YC cos at every opportunity it gets. Sometimes it feels like an ad, but this time it does not. Perfectly timed "launch" of the site. I think you've done a better job than most, in both content and design. I looked at the site a few hours ago, and was thinking of the team and the week of prep work that YC put into building this. Never could have believed it was made by a non-programmer in less than a single day until I read this. For constructive feedback, would love if you borrow an idea from Apple's gift list. That is, categorize the products and services by topic or type. I.e. For the music lover, the hipster, painter, etc. would really go a long way once this list gets out of hand (which I suspect it will ;)
- puredemo 11y agoEh, seven days before Christmas isn't time to buy much.
- urs2102 11y agoIf it works, took no time, and people are using it - I think it's a job well done. Great work jl!
- edanm 11y agoQuick spelling mistake - I think "GrubMakret" should be changed to "GrubMarket". Awesome site! Really great idea :)