Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping

In fact, if I funded startups, price search is one of those areas with enough opportunity that I would fund one every year in that space until someone gets something good going.

Now, so far I'm not seeing anything too hot from Bountii, but they have launched (congrats) and I do like the results page.

But okay, one thing. This is totally one of those cases where the minimalist front page sucks out loud. Because yes, you do want a simple front page, but you also want to give people what they want from you right up front. Bountii has got great product images and they're not front and center to arouse my inner consumer? That's tragic. It should just have a few top products right under the search box on the front page.

Congrats to the Bountii founders. Go have a Moons Over My Hammy and get ready to really work some magic in the upcoming months.

Rewrite your urls, eg: http://bountii.com/search.php?item=ipod%20touch%208gb should be something like http://bountii.com/ipod-touch-8gb

Congrats on getting something up, you have a long way to go though.

This sort of thing reminds me of just how trivial the reasons for using, or not using, a website are. When froogle renamed itself to google.com/products, I pretty much stopped using it. Why? Because when I do a product lookup, I want it as fast as possible. That's the most important thing.

...notice that the "F" and "R" in "FROOGLE" are both on the left side of the keyboard. Thus, I could type "FR" with my left hand and use the mouse to select "froogle.com" in firefox's dropdown in the address box. Can't do that with google.com/products.

other than that, congrats for launching after taking on an ambitious idea.