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46 points by androozhang ↗ HN
Hey HN,

A pattern I realized when I shopped for anything online is that by the end of my shopping session, I would accumulated over 15+ tabs. It's so easy to click on "Open in New Tab" that I figured other people have this issue as well.

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androozhang
Hey, I'm Andrew.

I'm a pretty big online shopper and wanted to solve the cycle of opening new tabs so I built this solution.

It works as an infinite canvas similar to Figma so you can add as many items as you want. The items are drag and drop so you can better see what clothing goes well with others. There is also a Chrome extension to make shopping even easier for people who don't feel like manually going back to Curate to add items.

ainonsense44
> 80% of online shoppers clicks on "Open Link in New Tab"

Source?

bilekas
A source would be nice but speaking from my own experience I do this. mainly so I can switch between tabs to see the "selections" I've made. It make intuitive sense to me at least regardless of the source.
Semaphor
I do this as well, but then just using a desktop computer makes us a minority.

My wife, who also mainly uses a desktop computer (though she uses her phone a lot more than me) does rarely do that. Instead, she uses wishlists/shopping carts, and even pinterest to organize things.

throwaway_20357
This might have been true in the past but from anecdotal evidence a lot more people seem to actually shop on their mobile phones nowadays where switching between tabs is less convenient. They build their item shortlist using shops' wishlist features or just add them to the cart.
androozhang
It's more of a number I pulled from what I hear, but I do see your point on sourcing so I just changed it to "So many" instead
ukuina
This is neat!

A more generic solution to research-tabsplosion is https://browser.horse, where EVERY link clicked opens in a new tab, but your tabs are stored as a tree.

thestepafter
Oh, wow. You just changed my life. Thank you, this makes so much sense. Any other recommendations for different approaches to commonly used software?
jayemar
This is a really great idea, but I'd much rather have it as a browser extension than a separate browser.
alexliu518
Get Curate Pro shows This page doesn't exist
androozhang
Good catch, I had completely forgetten about the checkout button not working
kkfx
Honestly... To makes clothes and shoes remote shopping easier I'd like the option to get a 3D model of them I can load in a local software to check if it fit my body well, without both sending my biometrical data to someone else and for the shopper the need of such hyper-big computing power to check 3D models for every customer.

If you think that for a moment is feasible, creating a 3D scan of our body might not be cheap so far but also not so expensive, only a bit long eventually, the rest is very simple since all clothes producers do have models of what they produce and sharing just the modeled surface with minimum/maximum is not a commercial issue.

HatchedLake721
It's kinda already available with Zozofit.

But you can't accurately check a fit because clothes often have stretching material.

kkfx
Sure, but just the ability to check a 3D model of a T shirt or a pair of shoes with a surface of the biggest and the smallest human body who can use them comfortably it would be very nice.

The problem is not much on the customers side but on the shop side: I see no shops so far who offer or advertise such option.

ollybee
Are you monetizing purely on the cost of the pro plan, or are you planning on selling data or leveraging affiliate programs ? I make no judgement on those strategies.
androozhang
Ideally, I gain enough traffic where I can leverage affiliate programs but no plan on selling data
chrismorgan
Firefox used to have a feature called Panorama built in (if I recall correctly), where you could arrange your tabs into groups and see thumbnails of all your tabs. It would probably answer this sort of purpose quite nicely. Other tab management systems like vertical tabs and tab trees (I use Tree Style Tab) are probably very helpful too.

Just at a very quick glance, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-tab-... looks like the most popular replacement for that old Firefox feature.

(I don’t mean that it’s an exact replacement, but it’s likely to be more convenient for single-session usage since it’s a tab management solution rather than an extra tool to use.)

97-109-107
My first impression was that perhaps the technical problem of having too many tabs is a narrow scoping of a wider problem.

My feeling is that your target audience must have developed multiple strategies or are ignoring the tab issue. However, the core annoyance of too many things to follow and compare is still there.

Perhaps you could experiment with wider value propositions than "just" tabs?

Looks great nonetheless!

androozhang
It was originally made for tabs actually, but I thought that getting the images for clothings would be a little more interesting to build around. Perhaps I go back “just” tabs?
97-109-107
Or, following typical advice, you could treat the clothes use case as one of many use cases and develop your positioning and marketing around independent funnels - clothes being one of many.

In other words, the core product is the same for all audiences, but the funnel and positioning addresses various needs.