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Starbucks and Apple offering $30 gift card combo to benefit AIDS foundation(9to5mac.com)
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GiftDish makes online gifting easy(pandodaily.com)
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by giftdish 14y ago
Brackin, That's actually how most of our gifts are sent. You can make a gift public or private. If it's public, it's posted to the recipient's Facebook wall (and you get all the social gratitude that comes along). We make everyone login bef
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by giftdish 14y ago
Sequoia, Thanks for the feedback. Agreed on the clarified messaging, we're working on that now. HN skews against Facebook, so I was expecting most of this feedback, we will start opening it up, but won't rush it.
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by giftdish 14y ago
nik_0_0, You nailed why we're using Facebook connect, without it the site is very empty, since we can't automatically pull events in. We need to communicate that better.
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by giftdish 14y ago
Brackin, Agreed, we need to clarify what types of gifts you can give. Digital (e)Gift Cards are one of the types you can give, they're delivered instantly but have physical value, as they can be redeemed online or printed out and redeemed i
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by giftdish 14y ago
rdl, You actually can give "group gifts", we haven't played up that point yet until we're sure the messaging is clear. If you send a gift card, you can invite friends to contribute. The recipient will get one card from all of you, for the s
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by giftdish 14y ago
Collins, Good points, we know people will be turned off by Facebook connect (as evidenced by comments...), and we're working hard to add more login options. We definitely should not require "extended permissions" at login, we should wait un
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by giftdish 14y ago
nanijoe, agreed, some can be meaningful. Changed to boring.
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by giftdish 14y ago
Thanks!
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by giftdish 14y ago
We wanted to end the boring Facebook "happy birthday" post, so we built GiftDish. GiftDish is a social gifting site, helping users manage important gifting events and makes giving personal gifts simple and social. After months of off-hours
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We're a 2.5 man team vs millions in VC. Please review our skunk-works project(giftdish.com)
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