Re:Ask HN: Please review my web app: WantsThis
by petemack on Sunday November 22, 2009 @07:28PM
(#956477)
1) Its usable forever, its checked by cookies but you could just return to that URL and continue using it. However its possible that another user could add remove things, which is why the password protection exists.
2) That was important to us, glad it came across that way.
3) Thanks, looking into it.
4) We have a number of affiliates including Amazon, hopefully with more traffic we can expand. We are also looking into recommendations and price matching directly related to affiliates.
2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms).
3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one of the suggested wants, and I typed in a want. Then I registered. But in my registered persona, only the typed-in want was on my wish list, the clicked-on want had disappeared. Probably an edge case.
4. It looks like you make your money when buyers click on your Amazon affiliate links for the wanted objects. I wonder if you might make a little more money if you also put an explicit Amazon affiliates box/widget on the side, with a list of related objects?