Rate my startup: BuckToBid

1 points by BuckToBid 15y ago ↗ HN

We have created a penny auction Facebook App. One of the biggest complaints with today's penny auction sites is that they could be cheating with auto-bidding bots. With BuckToBid you can see the public profile of each person you are bidding against. So you know its not a bot.

If any of the site concepts are not clear or if you have any feedback at all please let us know.

http://apps.facebook.com/bucktobid

Edit: We lowered the security settings for flagging accounts. Thanks for the heads up!

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ChaoticDalo 15y ago ↗

Fantastic, I think that the fact it's on facebook helps to varify that the system is clean and the users are real. I think most of those other sites have programmed bot's to cheat.

elliottcarlson 15y ago ↗

I took a quick look at it, however the Get Bids screen claims "We are sorry but your account has been flagged as fraudulent."

The voting angle is interesting, and rewarding people with logging in to give them more voting power makes sense too.

Good luck