Ask HN: Review of our start-up, Quixby.com
I am one of three co-founders with small start-up based in Ohio working on a project called Quixby.com, and would love feedback from the HN community on how to improve upon what we have made thus far.
We have gotten as much feedback as we can from various places, and people have offered up a lot of feedback on our UserVoice widget. Now it is time to turn to the nitty gritty. Anything we can improve upon, make better, tweak? We opened the beta version of our site back at the beginning of April, though we've been in development for a lot longer. As of now, it offers full compatibility between parts as you select them. We are only drawing parts from several sites (Newegg, Amazon, TigerDirect) with more to come. You can share builds, and with an account, save builds.
My partners and I are on this thing full time and living the start-up ramen life right now, but wouldn't change it for anything. This is the earliest start to our project, which is expanding quickly and is currently in development.
The biggest thing right now is ratings and incorporating those legally without just taking them from retailers sites, so for now we have a user submitted rating system that is on a fresh start.
Anyways, if anyone has ideas or feedback, we would really appreciate it!
Thanks a lot, Austin