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Feedback (even graphical - sorry it's in french) is most welcome! http://www.toutpourmonipad.com http://www.toutpourmonipad.com A couple of months ago I was l

Feedback (even graphical - sorry it's in french) is most welcome! http://www.toutpourmonipad.com http://www.toutpourmonipad.com A couple of months ago I was looking for an iPad case. I found a lot of french sites selling those, but not a single easily searchable place (eg: max budget, material...). I found (thanks to HN) http://ipadcasefinder.com/ http://ipadcasefinder.com/, but the shipping costs of most sellers to France made the purchase not worth it. So I decided to build something for the french market! Technically, it's an ETL (extract/transform/load) back-end that stores in MongoHQ, the front-end is based on Heroku, Sinatra, jQuery etc. It's just a V1, a lot of changes are planned (search by "use case", for instance).

lachyg 16y ago
The site is very close to my site, I guess it's not too close though. Some other guy copied the WHOLE site. I hope it works out for you. WordPress? What's your sidebar plugin? Good luck, it's a tough market.
- thibaut_barrere 16y ago
  Thanks for the comment! Well I wouldn't have started it if the shipping costs were low. There was an obvious gap here (picking partners that ship to france), which I filled. I definitely agree the idea is useful and interesting (given the feedback I got). The site is making pocket money more or less (very far from your figures), and the market is very tough, filled by niche blogs here in France. It was very interesting to make and I learnt a lot in the process, though! It's not a WordPress - it's a custom application I developed wholly from scratch myself using Sinatra, MongoDB, Ruby (the back-end, the views, javascript/css etc), and which is heavily customizable (this is already the fourth revision of the site). This made the ability to filter by manually entered prices a lot easier to implement, for instance. I plan to do regular updates on this and let it grow slowly, see where it goes.

lachyg 16y ago

The site is very close to my site, I guess it's not too close though. Some other guy copied the WHOLE site. I hope it works out for you. WordPress? What's your sidebar plugin? Good luck, it's a tough market.

thibaut_barrere 16y ago
Thanks for the comment! Well I wouldn't have started it if the shipping costs were low. There was an obvious gap here (picking partners that ship to france), which I filled. I definitely agree the idea is useful and interesting (given the feedback I got). The site is making pocket money more or less (very far from your figures), and the market is very tough, filled by niche blogs here in France. It was very interesting to make and I learnt a lot in the process, though! It's not a WordPress - it's a custom application I developed wholly from scratch myself using Sinatra, MongoDB, Ruby (the back-end, the views, javascript/css etc), and which is heavily customizable (this is already the fourth revision of the site). This made the ability to filter by manually entered prices a lot easier to implement, for instance. I plan to do regular updates on this and let it grow slowly, see where it goes.