What do you think of this?

5 points by dotmatrix 14y ago ↗ HN

We would love to get your feedback on this project. It's a cause driven e-commerce platform. Think kickstarter meets amazon, but for cool stuff. Essentially you find something you like and pre-order it, once the item has hit a number of pre-orders the item goes on sale and for each purchase of that item some of the sales go to a goal towards a cause. It's a dead simple idea, but we are not entirely sure if it has been done right so were giving it a shot.

Here is our first project, some cool cufflinks that will help fund Oakland CA schools.

www.madlov.com/qa

We would love your feedback and ways we could improve this.

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heelhook 14y ago ↗

The idea sounds pretty cool, you should make the "uncertainty" of the purchase clearer. I would also drop the word "preorder" and use a different word. Also you should consider displaying how many purchases more are required for the product to become available for sale, that might get your users to push for a product a bit more in their social circles.

Good luck with it!

dotmatrix 14y ago ↗

Thanks Heelhook for the great feedback.

hagope 14y ago ↗

Heelhook - nice idea.

What are some verbs that you'd replace with "Pre-Order" that would encourage action.

For exmaple:

"Get One" "Support"

I've submitted a new post to field some ideas:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170082

hansy 14y ago ↗

Interesting. Where do the items come from? Donated?

Absolutely love the charity or good cause aspect.

dotmatrix 14y ago ↗

Hey Hansy, the items are new or vintage items that come from their creators/brands, not necessarily donated. You could even go as far as to imagining ordering a baked pie for example that could either be delivered or shipped to you and part of the proceeds goes to a great cause. The types of items are either consumable or e-commerce goods.