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http://taketake.com

We are pre-launching taketake.com. Taketake helps you share news of your wants and haves with your friends and the world. Think check-in, but for things instead of places.

People can request invitations to taketake, but no invitations are being sent out yet. We will begin to send invites later this month.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

Competitors: Blippy, Swipely, Svpply, TheFancy (thingd)

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phreanix
Interesting, will there be a special section for product (thing?) reviews?
heymatty
Yes, each product has its own page with takes, conversations, etc. We've also partnered up with woot.com so their users can automatically import all the stuff they bought into taketake.
imcqueen
this is a great idea. The video on your home page is very well done. One suggestion would be to play with the copy in your one-line pitch. It doesn't really explain what your product is, the video nailed it though.
heymatty
I agree, we've been pulling our hairs out with this one. We plan on split testing a few and see how it impacts the bounce rate and invitation requests. Thanks for the feedback!
stephenou
I think it definitely has potential, at least from my curiosity, I want to know what my friends want to buy. Though my only concern is the lack of content at the beginning, we can't really get much information about different products if not that many people are participating.

By the way, fantastic video. Might to share what you used to create it?

heymatty
Thanks for the feedback, really. The video was created by http://www.epipheostudios.com/

For the lack of content part we will be launching city by city and will be showing wants and haves from people living around your area. We are also working on our taste engine to show you things that we think you are interested in.

We've built a database of things, we've got about 50,000 things so far. Those were manually reviewed and curated by our team. So there will be some content on there that we will suggest you check out upon joining.

niico
WOW, gorgeous ui, great idea. Im lovin' it so far!
heymatty
Cheers, thanks and we're thrilled you love it!
iworkforthem
The "Help us get featured" thing is nicely executed. If I skim through the text, I would think that this app has been featured in these sites.
heymatty
It's funny how we thought of it. We felt the footer was a bit empty and decided to "reserve" that space to show blogs/publications who would talk about us.

Then when we're about to put the site live and had to remove the placeholders... it felt strange looking. So we came up with this idea!

fezzl
I remember your thread from several months ago in which you were pondering on whether to launch... after almost a year in development. I must say that your website looks almost flawless, and the video by Epipheo does a fantastic job at explaining what Taketake is all about. I would think that Taketake is more like ShopSocial.ly + Blippy.

By the way, how did the idea come about? I'm asking because we're in social commerce ourselves and generally interested in developments in the space.

heymatty
Thanks for the feedback! The idea started back in Fall of 2008 when we bought the domain name. The original idea was to create a place where people would give their take - review products they have and had.

The idea spun from our internet marketing efforts at the time. Lots of people are searching for reviews online and there's so much spam content out there... we set to find a solution. It's only about a year later that we started to work full-time on the idea. It was the first time for us to work on a project like this and made all sorts of mistakes along the way. But we're finally done and releasing it!

Feel free to email me at matt at taketake, perhaps we can help each other in the space! Cheers!

veb
I love the site. Awesome. However, I'd love to be able to understand the video... please put some captions on it for people who can't hear too well. :)