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I just had a play. I think it is a great idea. Always struggling to pick a gift. I like the phone charger suggestion. I like how you ask for feedback presumabl
by bbcbasic 12y ago
I just had a play.
I think it is a great idea. Always struggling to pick a gift. I like the phone charger suggestion. I like how you ask for feedback presumably to make the results better next time.
Will it be a success? I guess it depends on how the word will be spread? Do people want to admit they used something like this to buy a gift for someone?
Another idea for you - can you scan a Facebook account to gather a lot of the information you ask? Would save a lot of typing. It could also send you an email when it is someone's birthday with a recommendation of the present.
A common theme in the how to start a start-up is to do things that don't scale. What if you had a phone line that you answer, people can phone and give the information and you suggest a present. What if you order it for them? You will get a lot of information about the nuances of choosing a present, which can be fed into your algorithm.
In my example the person hates to read books on self development, but likes trashy novels, but on the other hand is very ambitious. It suggest all kinds of self improvement books but I had to keep saying no.
- MalcolmDiggs 12y agoI'll second the facebook-integration idea. I'd much prefer to be able to sign-in-with-facebook and point out which person I want to buy a gift for than have to manually enter information about them (which I probably just culled from facebook anyway). I think the great utility of your app (which I like very much by the way) is getting gift ideas for people you barely know (coworkers, distant relatives, etc). So I don't know the answers to those questions, but my social network could probably figure it out.