jbbarnes

Hi guys,

I posted on HN 10 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - about our site. It is a way for you to create giftlists and to find gift ideas in an easy way.

We got a lot of great feedback from you guys that we've tried to act on. - A proper About Page - Make the giftmark bookmarklet more obvious - Improve the sign up process - More categories and products - Easier way to save a list - Image optimization - General look and feel.

So now we are back for more - we wondered if you had any more feedback for us. If not, no worries. Thanks again and have a great Christmas..

This is great! Thanks so much!

We launched today - http://www.ultimategiftlists.com - we've spent the last week on it. I got bored of having to write an email with a series of links to my family to tell them what I wanted for Christmas and for my birthday so built this..

That's really kind - thank you..

Thanks - glad you liked it. Yep we've had a look and we think one reason that ours has an advantage over theirs is because of the big feature of our site, which may not of been obvious, 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). With this feature added to the picture based layout we hoped we could get the edge over them - a tough ask i know.

Glad you liked it though. Say if we let you import your Amazon wishlist? Would that make you more tempted to use our service?

Thanks, glad you seem to like it.

Yeh we'll definitely sort differently in the future. We'll also allow users to drag tiles around and arrange their list in anyway they want..

I am not the coder, my friend is - I will let him answer you. From my limited knowledge I know that my friends skills lie with this technology and therefore he built something using a technology he is comfortable with. As I say he'll answer you properly in a bit..cheers

Correct - we are waiting for Skimlinks to approve our application. We just wanted to test the idea first..

Cool thanks - we'll double check to make sure we haven't got anything controversial as part of our default content!

Yeh hope people don't think we are spamming - we wanted to launch on a quiet day (Saturday morning) and just get some stats to see if people knew that the bookmarklet existed (if they installed it) and if they knew to save it. Based on this we've made improvments over the weekend ready for launch today.

That every Christmas and birthday my family ask me what I want for Xmas/birthday and that I have to email them a bunch of links as to what it is that I want. Maybe it isn't a problem, but it bugs me and my mate so we built something that we found useful that we thought could be beneficial to others. thanks!

Yep it is affiliate marketing - we just launched to friends and family here in the UK to begin with but have just applied to SkimLinks so will turn any of our links into affiliate links.

The curse of the HN homepage - we are taking a look at it, sorry for the outage..

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

Yeh we completely agree - looking at stats and how many people are installing 'giftmark' we knew we had a problem. We'll look to address it - thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated. Would you make the giftmark part of the site as part of the sign up?

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).

We've spent around 2 weeks or so developing this and we'd love any feedback you may have...thanks in advance.

Hi, thanks for commenting.

Just so I am clear - you were doing stuff on the site and then clicked the FireFox back button and the site seemed to screw up in someway? Sorry for probably misunderstanding - but just want to know exactly what the issue is.

thanks

EDIT: We now know what you mean and have added to the list! Thanks!

Awesome! Really glad you like it!

The share area, we agree - we'll remove that.

The Contact Us part does actually work but we've not made it v clear so we'll adjust. When you press it, if you look closely, you'll see a new tile appear (top left) that says 'send us an email' - it's not clear enough though so we'll look to adjust. Thanks.

Hi,

Yes Amazon affiliates and also Skimlinks (skimlinks.com)..

clickable: http://www.ultimategiftlists.com

Hi guys,

I have gone back to your last submission and think you have, largely, done well.

You have taken the comments on board and implemented them pretty effectively. 275 users is pretty good going too.

I would like to be able to convert my existing bookmarks however before I sign up with you..

Keep up the good work.