On your points:
- To prefix or not to prefix is always a tradeoff (as in, http://twitter.com/ev vs. http://google.com/a/foo.com). We wanted to keep some of that tasty top level namespace open, and figured /app/ would be an easy prefix to remember.
- That's definitely a good point, and something we're quite likely to do soon.
btw... what is the different between your service and something like Auctiva? As far as i can tell, they're already doing everything that you offer and they're FREE! (they take a cut from my insurance sales instead of 1% of total sale)
re Auctiva:
1) we plan to differentiate in the future by working with other platforms (Amazon, Google etc). 2) a Gold level powerseller told us: "I have found that Auctiva has very little "value-added" over the plain vanilla eBay tools. My hope is that your final product will be an improvement both in ease of use and cost over eBay/Auctiva", which also hints at our goals. There is a lot we can do to help sellers optimize, and more than that, introduce some real "ease-of use" into this market.
All the initial feedback we have had suggests we are on track with both. I'd be happy to discuss any insights you may have to help us improve, drop me a line at kul at auctomatic.com.
- http://www.auctomatic.com/app/username is a little strange. Would it be a big headache to remap it to http://www.auctomatic.com/username?
- It would be really neat if you could have a preview button when you're setting up your auction that generates a full preview. That is, the preview would generate HTML identical to Ebay's but with your auction info.