Ask HN: Feedback on ToutPourMoniPad.com (ipad case finder for the french market)
toutpourmonipad.com
toutpourmonipad.com
http://www.toutpourmonipad.com
A couple of months ago I was looking for an iPad case. I found a lot of french sites selling those, but not a single easily searchable place (eg: max budget, material...).
I found (thanks to HN) http://ipadcasefinder.com/, but the shipping costs of most sellers to France made the purchase not worth it.
So I decided to build something for the french market!
Technically, it's an ETL (extract/transform/load) back-end that stores in MongoHQ, the front-end is based on Heroku, Sinatra, jQuery etc.
It's just a V1, a lot of changes are planned (search by "use case", for instance).
Good luck, it's a tough market.
The site is making pocket money more or less (very far from your figures), and the market is very tough, filled by niche blogs here in France. It was very interesting to make and I learnt a lot in the process, though!
It's not a WordPress - it's a custom application I developed wholly from scratch myself using Sinatra, MongoDB, Ruby (the back-end, the views, javascript/css etc), and which is heavily customizable (this is already the fourth revision of the site).
This made the ability to filter by manually entered prices a lot easier to implement, for instance.
I plan to do regular updates on this and let it grow slowly, see where it goes.