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Interesting and good suggestions. I've been thinking more about aggregation, comparison, organization, etc, aspects - not exactly the 'store' behind the scenes.

by mstefff 18y ago

ericwaller 18y ago
Regarding aggregation: I don't use rss at all, no feed collection, no feedreader. I get mostly everything I read online from HN and sites like it. I'm not aware of anything similar for clothing. My process for checking out new stuff looks a lot like my tech news process did a year or two ago: type in techcrunch.com, read, type in mashable.com, read... I'm not saying digg-style voting and karma is the way to do it, but I'd love a place where I could get the same kind of curated updates and discussion about new clothes/gadgets/etc. I certainly wouldn't check it every day like I do HN, but I imagine there are people who would.
- mstefff 18y ago
  well a number of large shopping sites and deal/coupon sites work based on aggregation. the user doesn't need to know anything about it. look at like.com - an amazing shopping portal/search engine - all aggregation. they just refer to products on other store sites.
  - ericwaller 18y ago
    like.com is definitely impressive, but I guess the point I mean to make is that sometimes I don't want choice. When I come to a site like HN, I get 30 vetted stories and discussions relevant to programmer-entrepreneurs. Something similar for clothing, targeted to my demographic, (20s/male) would be hugely useful.
- petercooper 18y ago
  Regarding aggregation: I don't use rss at all, no feed collection, no feedreader. I'm an extremely heavy user of RSS and RSS-like technologies, but I don't (and probably wouldn't) use them for shopping related things whatsoever. If a product is unavailable, I like being able to put my e-mail address in to get notification of availability though :) The only exception to the above would be if we had something like woot.com in our country. I'd quite like to get an RSS or Twitter notification of that :)

Interesting and good suggestions. I've been thinking more about aggregation, comparison, organization, etc, aspects - not exactly the 'store' behind the scenes.

by mstefff 18y ago

Interesting and good suggestions. I've been thinking more about aggregation, comparison, organization, etc, aspects - not exactly the 'store' behind the scenes.

ericwaller 18y ago

Regarding aggregation: I don't use rss at all, no feed collection, no feedreader. I get mostly everything I read online from HN and sites like it. I'm not aware of anything similar for clothing. My process for checking out new stuff looks a lot like my tech news process did a year or two ago: type in techcrunch.com, read, type in mashable.com, read... I'm not saying digg-style voting and karma is the way to do it, but I'd love a place where I could get the same kind of curated updates and discussion about new clothes/gadgets/etc. I certainly wouldn't check it every day like I do HN, but I imagine there are people who would.

mstefff 18y ago
well a number of large shopping sites and deal/coupon sites work based on aggregation. the user doesn't need to know anything about it. look at like.com - an amazing shopping portal/search engine - all aggregation. they just refer to products on other store sites.
- ericwaller 18y ago
  like.com is definitely impressive, but I guess the point I mean to make is that sometimes I don't want choice. When I come to a site like HN, I get 30 vetted stories and discussions relevant to programmer-entrepreneurs. Something similar for clothing, targeted to my demographic, (20s/male) would be hugely useful.
petercooper 18y ago
Regarding aggregation: I don't use rss at all, no feed collection, no feedreader. I'm an extremely heavy user of RSS and RSS-like technologies, but I don't (and probably wouldn't) use them for shopping related things whatsoever. If a product is unavailable, I like being able to put my e-mail address in to get notification of availability though :) The only exception to the above would be if we had something like woot.com in our country. I'd quite like to get an RSS or Twitter notification of that :)