You might want to make the GiftMark more prominent, like a popup as part of the initial welcome. I just focused on the main area and thought it was only possible to add what was displayed on the page. The only reason I went clicking was to help evaluate the app, and I tink under normal circumstances I never would have clicked a menu item for "Add gifts from around the web"<p>Cool idea all around. Good luck!
Well done! Some feedback: Resize your product images ("/images/I/8137AFcYkrL._AA1500_.jpg") or request smaller ones. Remove whitespace before DOCTYPE. Try to avoid session/state URL's: dzYzMzJfNTAzNg==. Specify Canonical or apply www to non-www redirect. The homepage contains content, but this is only accessible with javascript and styling, or without javascript and styling. Consider a <noscript> warning or giving a user and searchbot access to the content with styles on, but javascript off. Adding to this a matter of taste: The background is like the background for iOS touch browsers when the end of a website is reached. That texture has some meaning attached to it for some, that make it in my opinion rather unsafe, to use for other design elements on the web. There is (possibly due to heavy load) a good 6-7 seconds between the dissapearance of the loading graphic, and the loading of new content "tiles", maybe you can add an onload callback for removal of loading graphic.<p>And a question: What is your organic SEO strategy? Will all visitors come from social? The website behaves like a web-app, so there is very little content to rank with. Are these personal shopping lists publicly available? What happens if people share these shopping lists? I don't see them indexed (yet), so they might not be flowing any link juice. Could you add a blog or something?
I use the add-on Ghostery, which filters out page elements that are known as trackers, including the ShareThis buttons. So I couldn't see any buttons below the statement "Share this list using the buttons below."<p>One solution to this problem is to offer at least one share button that is provided solely by your site.
From a personal standpoint, I think the web design is quite attractive, but I would be looking for something simpler and more functional. The only reason that I would approach the site is for gift ideas, (I would use Amazon for buying, actually storing a wishlist of hopeful transactions). My train of though it to start with the person who I'm buying a present for, and brainstorm what I should buy them based on what I know about them. It seems that the site is organized in a way that assumes you already know what you're looking for.
If your loved one isn't considerate enough to use Ultimate Gift Lists: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865223" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865223</a>
Cool idea, good job on executing so quickly (2 weeks!).<p>Small note: this is totally fine for the MVP you have, but I found sorting items alphabetically to be annoying. Why would I want to see things that happen to start with letters nearer the beginning of the alphabet first? As you iterate, might be something to think about. Maybe price point or popularity would be more helpful ways to organize the stuff.
Looks interesting, congrats on shipping! A few friends of mine actually built something similar recently, more about sharing Christmas lists with your family and making sure no one gets you the same thing, etc. If you're interested, it's called Scrooge Buster (<a href="http://www.scroogebuster.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scroogebuster.com/</a>)
Cool implementation, but wouldn't use it personally. Mostly because my immediate family already knows about Amazon wishlists, which also let you add anything (even not on amazon). I'll admit the interface is a lot cooler here. Have you looked at Amazon's implementation?
I guess the business model here is affiliate marketing. I noticed that the URLs you use to redirect to Amazon.co.uk product pages don't include the "tag=your-associate-id" query string parameter. Are you still eligible for commission?
Nice idea and execution but I didn't find anything interesting... I don't need to make a list if I want to buy someone iPad or Kindle fire... but that's my taste, maybe other people find new ideas from there.
This was submitted just 2 days ago for anyone wishing to see the existing comments: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857287" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857287</a>
FYI, our WebSense filter at work filters this for "potentially harmful content." Likely a mistake on the filter's part, but thought you'd like to know.