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Show HN: Giftmasters.com – Helps generate gift ideas for your significant other

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Great concept. However:

http://www.giftmasters.com/gift-finder should be the homepage of your site.

And a cursory glance suggests that you need to improve your data, which undermines the whole "handpicked" notion:

All of the headphones you suggest on the first page of results for running would be terrible for running.

Most of the water bottles you suggest for running would be impractical (e.g. the glass one)

Keep at it!

Absolutely agree on the data point-- there's one key feature missing at the moment to help us further curate the categories so that they more closely match to the activities.

And we've been debating making the gift-finder page the homepage, and we may make the change soon.

Stay tuned and thanks for the feedback!

Personally I like the homepage. It gives a quick link to the finder itself while still being a welcome page to explain why you should consider using the site

Hello and thank you for the feedback!

First off, I apologize for the site being so slow (it frustrates me too and we're working on it!).

I'm glad you enjoyed the concept -- we're working on some exciting new stuff as well, so stay tuned!

I hope the site is helpful during the upcoming holidays!

Seems more a curator then actually using any smarts to determine gifts - we've developed this www.giftfind.me would love your thoughts, perhaps collaboartion

Hopefully, we'll be adding some smartness soon! I'll check out your site!

Checked out your site -- if you're trying to match items programatically based on a questionnaire, you'll have to categorize items very well or have a very intelligent algorithm (which in my opinion not even big eCommerce players have been able to solve)

Awesome site idea, but most of the stuff takes a LONG time to load.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I really dig the concept, especially if you keep a nice small list of curated items.

The product loading is way too slow though and made me feel frustrated.

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