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Show HN: Share wishlists with your family

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Cool! I knew I wasn't the only one out there with this need. I wrote something similar over 10 years ago in old school PHP. I rewrote it recently enough for similar reasons as you (practice project). Mine is over at http://www.gifttracker.net/

Very nice. What made you decide to go with the no-password option? I've never actually seen that before and it's pretty wild. Is there anything stopping someone from logging into your account?

The main reason was the sharing mechanism. When you share your list with someone, you can type in their email even if they don't have a Gift Tracker account. What will then happen is an account will be created for them with no password. When they end up following through on the share link and viewing the list, they'll be using their newly created account.

Near the top of the page, a message will appear suggesting that they lock down their account with a password.

So to answer your question, nothing but knowing the user's email address stops someone from logging into their account.

Maybe I'm just slow, but what is the advantage of this over Amazon Universal Wishlist?

1) People can comment on items allowing, among other things, people to co-ordinate sharing buying large presents and alerting people they've got an alternative but similar item. Both of these would be useful for me and my family.

2) You can create a group of your family/friends, giving everyone a single place to look for multiple people's lists.

Whether that's enough of an advantage to negate the ease of purchasing and trust with Amazon Universal Wishlist I'm not sure.

Possibly none:) This is a practice project, not a business, so I haven't done much market research.

That said, I'm not sure if you can add plain text items to an Amazon Universal Wishlist. If you can't then this would work better for general requests (e.g. "chocolate" as opposed to a specific chocolate bar) and unique requests (e.g. "Sis, will you paint me a watercolour?").

You might want to keep the buttons at the bottom of the object they modify (for example on the 'update my list' page). That would make it more consistent on mobile or space constrained displays. It's also more common practice.

There doesn't appear to be any "Forgot my password" option.

Yep, I need to add one. Thanks.

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