And a question: What is your organic SEO strategy? Will all visitors come from social? The website behaves like a web-app, so there is very little content to rank with. Are these personal shopping lists publicly available? What happens if people share these shopping lists? I don't see them indexed (yet), so they might not be flowing any link juice. Could you add a blog or something?
- Load your ToS and Contact pages in new windows. I didn't notice that they had appeared in the gift list zone - this definitely doesn't feel the right place to put them.
- I would consider exposing the list ID as part of the URL so that users can copy and paste them around in chat windows / email / twitter, in case they don't want to use your sharing services.
- I would second the idea of a blog as a way of promoting interesting and/or useful gift ideas.
It's a slightly different take on the wish list "problem" in that mine isn't about getting gift ideas, it's about sharing lists and reserving to avoid duplicates.
Glad you liked it though. Say if we let you import your Amazon wishlist? Would that make you more tempted to use our service?
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.
Cool idea all around. Good luck!
Small note: this is totally fine for the MVP you have, but I found sorting items alphabetically to be annoying. Why would I want to see things that happen to start with letters nearer the beginning of the alphabet first? As you iterate, might be something to think about. Maybe price point or popularity would be more helpful ways to organize the stuff.
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..
One solution to this problem is to offer at least one share button that is provided solely by your site.
