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Re:Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:22PM (#3569237)
Thanks for your response! I really appreciate it. And your ideas are extremely valid, I was thinking that I could maybe target universities in which your login would consist of your school email address, this way they could first search for a book within their own school's ecosystem and then if they can't find it... move on to the rest of the country. Would word of mouth be enough to gain popularity?

Thanks again, Alex

Re:Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:19PM (#3569225)
Yes, that would pose a problem for my idea, but do you think Lendsit would be able to compete since it's completely user-based? It would be more of a platform/forum where students could just type in the book they wanted and check to see if we had it.

Thanks for the response! Alex

Re:Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:18PM (#3569220)
Well that's weird that nothing shows up! It should redirect you to the signup page, so that's good! You should be seeing a little blurb about the idea and a place to input your email. Why don't you try once again and see if it works.

Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. Alex

Re:Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:16PM (#3569218)
Hmm... very interesting, but I don't think this would compete against Lendsit seeing as how swaptree has so many sects within the idea of swapping.

Ask HN: Would you review my startup idea?

Hey guys, I'm a senior in high school and I'm trying to launch a startup that I think would really take off. Of course, this is just me speculating and being blindly optimistic. I'd really love the HN community to check it out and give me some feedback, I'm prepared for both positive and negative! ~~ The idea would be to swap textbooks constantly. So with a large enough user base, you would...

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Hey guys, I'm a Senior in high school and the founder of Lendsit! I'm thinking about launching in the coming weeks/month but wanted to get some feedback from the wonderful HN community.