jbbarnes

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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Hi guys, I posted on HN 10 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - about our site. It is a way for you to create giftlists and to find gift ideas in an easy way. We got a lot of great feedback from you guys that we've tri
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Launched on HN, got a load of great feedback that we've acted on. Now need more(ultimategiftlists.com)
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Ask HN for help to find a missing person
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
This is great! Thanks so much!
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
We launched today - http://www.ultimategiftlists.com - we've spent the last week on it. I got bored of having to write an email with a series of links to my family to tell them what I wanted for Christmas and for my birthday so built this
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
That's really kind - thank you..
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Thanks - glad you liked it. Yep we've had a look and we think one reason that ours has an advantage over theirs is because of the big feature of our site, which may not of been obvious, the 'giftmark' bookmarklet - this means that you can a
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Thanks, glad you seem to like it. Yeh we'll definitely sort differently in the future. We'll also allow users to drag tiles around and arrange their list in anyway they want..
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
I am not the coder, my friend is - I will let him answer you. From my limited knowledge I know that my friends skills lie with this technology and therefore he built something using a technology he is comfortable with. As I say he'll answer
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Correct - we are waiting for Skimlinks to approve our application. We just wanted to test the idea first..
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Cool thanks - we'll double check to make sure we haven't got anything controversial as part of our default content!
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Yeh hope people don't think we are spamming - we wanted to launch on a quiet day (Saturday morning) and just get some stats to see if people knew that the bookmarklet existed (if they installed it) and if they knew to save it. Based on this
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
That every Christmas and birthday my family ask me what I want for Xmas/birthday and that I have to email them a bunch of links as to what it is that I want. Maybe it isn't a problem, but it bugs me and my mate so we built something that we
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Yep it is affiliate marketing - we just launched to friends and family here in the UK to begin with but have just applied to SkimLinks so will turn any of our links into affiliate links.
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
The curse of the HN homepage - we are taking a look at it, sorry for the outage..
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Ok cool - we'll make it much more prominent. With regard to the second bit of feedback - we'll be adding price soon and will continue to iterate so the pictures are sharper and better quality, and bigger, but we wanted to get it out there b
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Yeh we completely agree - looking at stats and how many people are installing 'giftmark' we knew we had a problem. We'll look to address it - thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated. Would you make the giftmark part of the site as pa
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Hi thanks for the feedback. The big feature of this site, which may not of been obvious, is the 'giftmark' bookmarklet - this means that you can add any items you want when you browse the web rather than just being limited to our default it
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
We've spent around 2 weeks or so developing this and we'd love any feedback you may have...thanks in advance.
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Show HN: Our attempt at solving the wishlist problem..(ultimategiftlists.com)
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Hi, thanks for commenting. Just so I am clear - you were doing stuff on the site and then clicked the FireFox back button and the site seemed to screw up in someway? Sorry for probably misunderstanding - but just want to know exactly what t
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Awesome! Really glad you like it! The share area, we agree - we'll remove that. The Contact Us part does actually work but we've not made it v clear so we'll adjust. When you press it, if you look closely, you'll see a new tile appear (top
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
Hi, Yes Amazon affiliates and also Skimlinks (skimlinks.com)..
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by jbbarnes 14y ago
clickable: http://www.ultimategiftlists.com
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Show HN: Our week long project - trying to do the wishlist better
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L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter (m.bbc.co.uk)
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An important reminder(thenewsandme.wordpress.com)
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US Federal Reserve 'bomb plot' foiled by FBI (m.bbc.co.uk)
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Amazon’s Quidsi Targets Kids With New Sites Bookworm & AfterSchool(techcrunch.com)
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by jbbarnes 17y ago
Hi guys, I have gone back to your last submission and think you have, largely, done well. You have taken the comments on board and implemented them pretty effectively. 275 users is pretty good going too. I would like to be able to convert m

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