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Apply HN: AllThingsMine.com – Access to your product information anywhere

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https://www.allthingsmine.com/

Allows you to Manage all the things that you purchase. Add your purchased items and the App provides access to all its images, specifications, manuals, user guides, warranties, videos, reviews etc. Its easy to add products via scanning the UPC barcode, or from the product URL or lookup of our database. Connect with your friends and discover/share new purchases and discuss it with them. Be notified of recalls, 30 day reminder, price drops within the window

We are adding helpful features such as manufacturer support information (phone number/URL) retailer specific return policy, price tracking for wishlist items, and new categories as well.

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This sounds like a cool idea. Which aspects of product ownership are you focused on first?

Also, have you considered working with related startups in the space? Two that come to mind are: Warranty Ninja [1] (automatic warranty registration of the products you buy), and Slice [2] (discount tracking and recall alerts).

1: https://angel.co/warranty-ninja-1

2: https://angel.co/slice-1

Thank you for the feedback. We have not approached any of the others yet. Slice has been around for a long time. They are strong on delivery tracking and email based parsing of receipts. Will checkout Warranty Ninja. We were planning to add parsing of receipts, but were worried about email security. Thinking of alternatives to address it.

First thought: your site gives a first impression of a shopping site with the scrolling devices across the top. But I don't think that is your intention.

Second thought: The site has three "primary" things: manage, share, discover. But none of these things appeal to me as stated. I think arriving at the site via a link should present the one primary use case that's most likely to hook me (probably "discover"? but then you're like a shopping site, so maybe "manage").

I'm concerned about "share"; people seem to be getting allergic to the word.

Beneath the fold, the first use case for "manage" is knowing when my warranties expire. I don't find this particularly compelling; I don't think I've ever (or maybe only once?) wondered whether a device I had was under warranty. Curious why you present that as the primary thing you can manage.

Thanks for your feedback. We started out with automating warranty and added many more features.

Will definitely reorient the message to convey the primary message which is "Manage". "Discover" comes into play once the community of friends are on board.

As part of "Manage", will explain its aspects, namely converging all of the product information at one place.

Once again, thanks for your suggestions.

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