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Nice design! I signed up hoping to look for a present for my wife. But once I signed in, I just see a generic list of products. I don't see how you are solving
by revorad 14y ago
Nice design!
I signed up hoping to look for a present for my wife. But once I signed in, I just see a generic list of products. I don't see how you are solving the gift finding problem.
I have signed up and tried pretty much every single app like this. And not one of them delivers. So, you're right this is a problem that people face, but you will face 2 issues:
1. It's not a problem that people have frequently enough. So even if you get some users, keeping them coming back will be very hard.
2. It's a really hard problem to solve - most apps I've seen just grab my friends' FB likes. Guess what? My friends don't go around FB liking every single thing they like in real life. So, your algorithm has to be really clever and process the text and links that people share.
I think it's a bit like the voice recognition problem. People have been trying for years, but only recently have there been big advances because we have a lot more data now.
Right now there are millions of people sharing data on social sites. But for any one person, or a pair of friends, the data is still quite sparse. Over time, this will get better. So if you can stick around, your app might improve, otherwise you're probably too early.
- joaoromao 14y agoRevorad, thank you for your input! The gifting problem can be solved in three ways: 1) the easiest, through discovery on the trending products page 2) through peer-to-peer recommendations. I can easily recommend a product to a friend and thus (maybe) solve the other person gift finding problem 3) You have the quests part, where you create a quest and people can answer with products too. Do you think these methods can be of value to the user?