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Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
Background: I noticed that my better half spent a lot of time searching for the same thing (at the time it was maternity dresses) across a whole load of women's fashion stores online. So I built her a site that lets her search some of the top stores from one site.
I have an idea for a few social elements that I want to add to try and make more of a community.
Any feedback, tips etc welcome.
http://shoplove.co.uk
- Jim_Neath 15y agoClickable: http://shoplove.co.uk http://shoplove.co.uk
- ddagradi 15y agoGreat job keeping the design classy and out of the way. Seems simple and easy to use - hope you have a ton of success with it. Any idea on how to keep it alive/monetize it? Maybe high street stores would want to promote some of their items to the top of lists?
- Jim_Neath 15y agoAt the moment, I'm aiming at affiliate sales. I'm open to other solutions though :)
- mofle 15y agoWhy not for men too?
- Jim_Neath 15y agoI am planning on expanding to men and kids later on. I just thought I'd keep it simple by targeting one section to begin with.
- follower 15y agoWhat has been her response to the site?
- bobds 15y agoDo all the shops you've included provide a datafeed for affiliates?
- Jim_Neath 15y agoI've written crawler for all of the sites featured. Probably not the best/easiest way to do it but it works for me.
- sramam 15y agoThe filter by color works really well! Especially since you mention crawling stores, would be interesting to know how the color-matching works. I'd think the metadata is not very consistent.
- iamben 15y agoGreat idea ;-) I'd also love an explanation as what you're doing on the crawl to collate it all?
- Jim_Neath 15y agoI originally tried analysing the colours in the images and picking out the most common colours used. In the end, I just ended up using the colours mentioned on the pages when I scrape them. It works well generally but throws a few false positives.
- michaelpinto 15y agoI'm coming at this from a marketing point of view but the site feels very generic — more discount bin than "high street". Why not go back to your original concept and create an aggregator that's just focused on maternity (which is a valuable SEO play)? Also I'd design several looks and do some A/B testing (including selection of clothing for the front page which is critical).
- wolfhumble 15y agoWell put together. Just wondering: Do you have any concerns regarding copyright use of text, images etc. of the products being sold? Have you looked into possible Google penalties regarding duplication of text from other websites?
- Jim_Neath 15y agoHonestly, no I haven't looked into any of this. I have noticed, however, that most, if not all of the sites offer product feeds that include the images. So I'd assume that there is no issue there. Regarding Google, I honestly don't have a clue. I shall put some time into looking into it though
- gohat 15y agoI'd figure out how to make it look higher end. It's nice, but it feels like a low-end site, imo. See http://www.saksfifthavenue.com http://www.saksfifthavenue.com for how a high end clothing store looks. Good luck!
- sktrdie 15y agoActually his design feels higher end than that saks-fifth-avanue website.
- sktrdie 15y agoWhat's the technology behind the site? Great design as well... how did you get to be a coder and a designer at the same time?