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Nice idea and execution but I didn't find anything interesting... I don't need to make a list if I want to buy someone iPad or Kindle fire... but that's my taste, maybe other people find new ideas from there.

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Hi thanks for the feedback. The big feature of this site, which may not of been obvious, is the 'giftmark' bookmarklet - this means that you can add any items you want when you browse the web rather than just being limited to our default items. If you drag that bookmarklet up to the toolbar and then when you see an item on the web you like, you click the 'giftmark' button and it adds that item to your list (with a picture).

I completely missed it so I guess you should do a better job introducing it to your users as a main feature, also create browsers plugins - bookmarklet might work for HN user, but not for 99% others, it also gives you a little more publicity.

Also I did find something interesting from Gadgets section but the width of the "pinterest style" boxes are so narrow, the pictures small and no price tags - it's hard to get my attention at least.

Ok cool - we'll make it much more prominent. With regard to the second bit of feedback - we'll be adding price soon and will continue to iterate so the pictures are sharper and better quality, and bigger, but we wanted to get it out there before xmas and get people's feedback. We'll add it to the list. Thanks

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