We just launched last week into a pretty competitive market.<p>The site was built with two people, myself and my partner over roughly 8 months. I did all the design/frontend while he handled all the programming.<p>We'd love to hear any feedback you guys/gals have.<p>http://wantsthis.com
Clickable link:<p><a href="http://wantsthis.com" rel="nofollow">http://wantsthis.com</a><p>The app seems nice, although there seem to be some minor rendering issues when viewed in FF 3.5.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (the text in the 'sign up free' box gets a bit out of the box). However, there were other bugs - when I searched for a 'linux t-shirt', the 'next' arrow dissapeared at one point (there was a circle in it's place suggesting that it's loading). I then refreshed the page, and the previous item I added to my list appeared twice. I didn't review it any further, though, so I don't know if there are any other bugs. Hope this helps.
1. I really like that you can start using it without registering. I assume that the assigned name is usable beyond "now?"<p>2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms).<p>3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one of the suggested wants, and I typed in a want. Then I registered. But in my registered persona, only the typed-in want was on my wish list, the clicked-on want had disappeared. Probably an edge case.<p>4. It looks like you make your money when buyers click on your Amazon affiliate links for the wanted objects. I wonder if you might make a little more money if you also put an explicit Amazon affiliates box/widget on the side, with a list of related objects?
I love apps like these, especially when they have domains that make sense to have usernames in them.<p>The amazon.com price comparisons are a little annoying to me, though, because most products don't ship internationally from Amazon.com. Not only that, if I'm entering prices that are in CAD$ and price comparisons are from a site (Amazon.com) that sells items in USD$, the price comparisons don't add a lot of value. It'd be nice if there was a way to set a locale to get price comparisons from. That way, you'd still be able to earn affiliate income, but even more than before because it's more highly targeted to the user.
i really like it, the search works well, the design is nice...well done!<p>the auto-generated name thing is a great idea, but I wonder if you could increase the conversion rate by replacing the copy "Create an account now, so you can choose a better name for your wish list!" with the form itself. That copy makes it seem as if I need to register in order to select a name, but in reality selecting a name (and making a password) is the registration process.<p>one question: are you only pulling products from amazon and newegg currently, and if so, plans to expand?
I just checked your app for sql injection. The password I chose while registering a new list was d'artagnan and, sure enough, I was granted access without any error message whatsoever, but once I logged out I couldn't log in again. I thought that you might have removed the ' character automatically, but I also tried with dartagnan and couldn't log in either.
Hey, this looks great; I'm signing up purely out of interest. Though, one small thing - if neither password field is filled out and the form is sent, I receive this message: "The password fields must match". Insignificant non-bug, but still not the correct error message to display. I look forward to see where you go with this!
Looks nice. The account auto-creation is neat. I didn't see an option to change the auto-generated account name (such as a35) to something of my choice.<p>The Preference checkboxes at the bottom of /settings.php don't appear correctly on Chrome.
If a user searches for something like 27" iMac, there are no results, but if the user searches for 27 iMac, the 27" imac is found. It might be good to strip any "'s in the add field before searching.
nice design and intuitive UI, I like it. What about sync the wish list instead of import the wish list? sync a wish list will cover import and export as well. As User, I will love this option, but sure there's a lot to do to make this work properly, if that's possible.