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Show HN: Customizable online clearance rack

1 points by dasong 13y ago

dasong 13y ago
Hey guys, just wanted to get some feedback on our site. It's not perfect, but it is useful. And I don't think there's anything out there that does what it does. (If I'm wrong, please let me know!) Hope the site is self-explanatory. If not, the http://biggestpricedrop.com/about http://biggestpricedrop.com/about page should be helpful. I am now trying to move into the marketing phase and it's clearly not my forte. Any tips? I am hoping I can promote this solo without hiring a PR or marketing person. Is that realistic? Should I consider spending serious money to get us out there?
hardwaresofton 13y ago
While I'm not quite your target audience genderwise, the site looks pretty good to me, pretty minimal, loads well,etc. What I think you could maybe emphasize more is the clothes/pictures of the models with the clothes on. If someone's really going shopping, they're really going to want that visual stimulation to make them want to buy the product -- and I think that's what's going to drive sales, rather than lots of small information (like the graph, description,etc that you have on the right and left sides of each of the items going down the page) I know it's quite overplayed now, but a more pintresty UI (or at least something that emphaszies less stuff, maybe JUST the product picture, price, and discount percentage) might be better... At least something to keep the person looking from dress to dress, rather than box with information to it to box with information in it. For example, when I went to the page, I barely registered the discount prices, but I did register the striking pictures of the stuff that was on sale, like the model pictures -- personally I looked at some of the pictures to see if the model was the same, haha, but I want to say that the visual stimulation maybe should be played up a little more. Also, maybe you should post on /r/fashion? or some fashion blogs that you know about? I'm not sure what it's really like to market to that crowd, but HN (or maybe even reddit) is not neccesarily the best place to get traction
- dasong 13y ago
  Thanks, agree with everything you said. I have a different layout (just images that I'm working on. I would like to give the user the option to choose which layout they want. As for the images, I don't have much control over whether the pictures have models in them or not. Glad the images were front and center for you. One of the core ideas behind the site is to make it fun to just "window shop."
  - hardwaresofton 13y ago
    I haven't been to business school... But I want to say that "Window shoppers are good for business" has to be a lemma somewhere.

1 points by dasong 13y ago

Hey guys, just wanted to get some feedback on our site. It's not perfect, but it is useful. And I don't think there's anything out there that does what it does. (If I'm wrong, please let me know!) Hope the site is self-explanatory. If not, the http://biggestpricedrop.com/about http://biggestpricedrop.com/about page should be helpful. I am now trying to move into the marketing phase and it's clearly not my forte. Any tips? I am hoping I can promote this solo without hiring a PR or marketing person. Is that realistic? Should I consider spending serious money to get us out there?

hardwaresofton 13y ago

While I'm not quite your target audience genderwise, the site looks pretty good to me, pretty minimal, loads well,etc. What I think you could maybe emphasize more is the clothes/pictures of the models with the clothes on. If someone's really going shopping, they're really going to want that visual stimulation to make them want to buy the product -- and I think that's what's going to drive sales, rather than lots of small information (like the graph, description,etc that you have on the right and left sides of each of the items going down the page) I know it's quite overplayed now, but a more pintresty UI (or at least something that emphaszies less stuff, maybe JUST the product picture, price, and discount percentage) might be better... At least something to keep the person looking from dress to dress, rather than box with information to it to box with information in it. For example, when I went to the page, I barely registered the discount prices, but I did register the striking pictures of the stuff that was on sale, like the model pictures -- personally I looked at some of the pictures to see if the model was the same, haha, but I want to say that the visual stimulation maybe should be played up a little more. Also, maybe you should post on /r/fashion? or some fashion blogs that you know about? I'm not sure what it's really like to market to that crowd, but HN (or maybe even reddit) is not neccesarily the best place to get traction

dasong 13y ago
Thanks, agree with everything you said. I have a different layout (just images that I'm working on. I would like to give the user the option to choose which layout they want. As for the images, I don't have much control over whether the pictures have models in them or not. Glad the images were front and center for you. One of the core ideas behind the site is to make it fun to just "window shop."
- hardwaresofton 13y ago
  I haven't been to business school... But I want to say that "Window shoppers are good for business" has to be a lemma somewhere.