PriceAdvance Beta Launch
We submitted our app in October not expecting anything and got asked to come talk to YC. We put together a tight demo, couldn't sleep the night before, waited until late Saturday night after the interview to hear they'd decided to pass (it's ok, we still heart YC), and pressed on. We've been cranking ever since returning from Cambridge to roll out the PriceAdvance FireFox addon for the holidays.
We've just launched our beta! And we just landed on the front page of LifeHacker.com (woohoo).
Anyway, we'd love to get some more feedback, comments, suggestions. Thanks!
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I went to your site and quickly downloaded it. Then, I was confused by where PriceAdvance was installed. Then I noticed it was on the bottom right, but when I tried to access it, I could only disable it. So, I went back to your site.
1) Your demo has no sound. I had no idea what was going on. 2) When I went to Best Buy, like the demo, Price Advance was still loading (understandable because you just launched and the server calls have got to be pretty high. 3) I still have no idea what you guys do. Perhaps a short and sweet little phrase could help out. 4) I think your server just crashed because neither PriceAdvance or your website are working.
For the brief amount of time, I think you need to spell it out to me what I'm downloading and how it works.
I only glanced at their website for about 10-15 seconds and I understood what the product was...
Our extension lets you browse/search e-commerce sites like Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, etc. and get comparison prices inline from other merchants. The results displayed are done through perfect product matching, so you will never get a macbook while searching for an ipod.
If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask. Thanks again for the comments.
Useful product for my holiday shopping needs though. Once it worked, I got it.
In that time I knew what the product, why it's useful for me, and how it worked.
Most 'check out my idea' posts on new.yc never get to two seconds. You're ahead of all of them.
Obviously, there's substantial overlap between you and Bountii, although that may have nothing to do with why you were not funded. I do tend to wonder how quickly these sort of strategic interference issues are increasing for YC, though. It's a lot easier to turn someone down than to risk an insult (or worse) to an previous company.
What OS / FireFox version are you getting an error on?
Here's my version string from the About box:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Running on Tiger. No proxy server.
I can wget/curl it just fine, and it works just fine on my Intel/Leopard MacBook, so no emergency.
An IE version will help you guys attract a wider user-base. Good luck!