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Your blog post is a bit incomprehensible tbh. I did get it eventually, but I got a good bit into the article before I did. #1 issue for me is you say "writing o

Your blog post is a bit incomprehensible tbh. I did get it eventually, but I got a good bit into the article before I did. #1 issue for me is you say "writing order notes", and that doesn't make sense at all to me. "verifying whether products are fake or legitimate" would be a much better article title.

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mtalantikite 5y ago
Yeah I had no idea what this was about and had to Google “Order Notes”, which also didn’t turn up much. Bailed on the article pretty quickly since I didn’t understand anything, assuming I wasn’t the target audience.
- chdaniel 5y ago
  Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
  - mtalantikite 5y ago
    I think the word “authenticity” is something that expresses what it is your team does that more people would understand. I think most people know what a certificate of authenticity is and it sounds like your service provides a digital, saas version of that.
the_local_host 5y ago
Even after understanding that the service is about distinguishing fake from legitimate products, I still don't know what an "order note" is.
- chdaniel 5y ago
  Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
  - bobsmooth 5y ago
    Keep in mind the usual type of person that is here on HN. I was able to gleam what you are doing and how you are doing it the moment I started reading the first order note.
chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong

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mtalantikite 5y ago

Yeah I had no idea what this was about and had to Google “Order Notes”, which also didn’t turn up much. Bailed on the article pretty quickly since I didn’t understand anything, assuming I wasn’t the target audience.

chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
- mtalantikite 5y ago
  I think the word “authenticity” is something that expresses what it is your team does that more people would understand. I think most people know what a certificate of authenticity is and it sounds like your service provides a digital, saas version of that.

the_local_host 5y ago

Even after understanding that the service is about distinguishing fake from legitimate products, I still don't know what an "order note" is.

chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
- bobsmooth 5y ago
  Keep in mind the usual type of person that is here on HN. I was able to gleam what you are doing and how you are doing it the moment I started reading the first order note.

chdaniel 5y ago

Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong