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Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products

4 points by crackadder 16y ago

we've spent some time developing http://wibba.com as a platform which makes it quick and easy to discover and share cool products online and offline. share products you think are cool or follow others to keep updated with things that they're loving. this is a early alpha. you can share product links, follow others and be followed, link with twitter and more. there is so much noise out there its impossible to keep updated with everything going on. I want to follow Scobleizer so I can see all the new apps he's loving, I want to follow a friend whose a DJ to see all the new tunes he's digging. I've got a good friend who works in fashion - I wanna see the trends he's discovering. We developed this purely for products, not general chatter would love to hear what you guys think - please bear in minds its really early days. thanks so much http://wibba.com

SHOwnsYou 16y ago
Good concept. Is there a voting mechanism/do you plan to add one? What about a recommendation engine? Finally, have good fraud protection and you may even want to consider limiting the amount of submissions made by a user in a given time period or this will quickly become a place to spam affiliate links and the same product links over and over.
- crackadder 16y ago
  thx, do you think it makes sense to add voting? we're not after a digg style model at all - hate how those sites are gamed so much by spammers. not sure we need to limit submissions - you only follow who you want to hear from, if someone drives you mad - you can unfollow like twitter. thanks so much for the feedback
  - SHOwnsYou 16y ago
    I don't know about voting, just a random thought. One thing I would be interested in though is an aggregating tool that would let me see if more than one of the people I am following have submitted the same item. I might be more inclined to look at/buy something if 40 of my friends have submitted it rather than 1. Well I figure you will want to demonstrate the service or fill the home page with some kind of content to non-logged in users. If it is nothing but the same product link over and over or affiliate links, there is no way I am going to join it because I figure it is just a spam service.
    - crackadder 16y ago
      thats a great idea, thanks dude

4 points by crackadder 16y ago

SHOwnsYou 16y ago

Good concept. Is there a voting mechanism/do you plan to add one? What about a recommendation engine? Finally, have good fraud protection and you may even want to consider limiting the amount of submissions made by a user in a given time period or this will quickly become a place to spam affiliate links and the same product links over and over.

crackadder 16y ago
thx, do you think it makes sense to add voting? we're not after a digg style model at all - hate how those sites are gamed so much by spammers. not sure we need to limit submissions - you only follow who you want to hear from, if someone drives you mad - you can unfollow like twitter. thanks so much for the feedback
- SHOwnsYou 16y ago
  I don't know about voting, just a random thought. One thing I would be interested in though is an aggregating tool that would let me see if more than one of the people I am following have submitted the same item. I might be more inclined to look at/buy something if 40 of my friends have submitted it rather than 1. Well I figure you will want to demonstrate the service or fill the home page with some kind of content to non-logged in users. If it is nothing but the same product link over and over or affiliate links, there is no way I am going to join it because I figure it is just a spam service.
  - crackadder 16y ago
    thats a great idea, thanks dude