Comment by adoxyz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by adoxyz | Hacker News Reader

https://stufftheywant.com

Project Description: A product discovery app that features highly curated lists of products via guides and an endless tiktok-esque feed to discover new and exciting products. The idea came from my wife always having trouble finding me gifts for special occasions like birthdays and currently searching "gifts for men" always suggests shot glasses, knives, or beard kits, which are things I don't want haha.

What do you want to be tested: Live data is not in the app yet (there's about 50 test products for now), trying to nail the experience first since it's a PWA and testing on various devices is hard. If you sign up, your data will likely be deleted by morning time as we're not even alpha yet. Just really curious to see if it works well on a variety of real world devices and also validate if it's something people would use.

Contact Info: contact@ado.xyz (if you want to chat about the app, collab, etc.)

It's very hard for me to scroll back up because it starts triggering pull-to-refresh. Android 13 / Chrome.

Thank you Seth. Will reduce the threshold to swipe up/down.

cool idea! worked well enough for me on Chrome/Android.

As for the listings i would only use this if the products would be more "interesting". atm i was ony presented with the most bland and popular techbro gadgets.

i get that this is bc it is still in early stages but the variety and uniqueness of suggestions would be key IMO.

Thank you for the feedback. Absolutely agree that curation of interesting and unique products will be key to making it be useful. :)

> I was ony presented with the most bland and popular techbro gadgets.

Same here.

If someone wanted a list of gift ideas, I'd give them access to my Youtube feed. Pretty much anything related to what you find there would feel personal.

I like the keyboard navigation but if I type S, it only says "Link copied to keyboard"

Added the navigator share API so the sharing experience should be much better now :)

Seems to work well. I have it bookmarked to try out after live data is added.

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