oms2010

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by oms2010 13y ago
I have a webapp that suffers from the chicken and the egg problem, people may not know they need it until they discover what it does. I know it's a bit off topic, but I would like to know if anyone 'would pay for that' ... th
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by oms2010 16y ago
http://www.organizemysearch.com I developed organizemysearch.com after being tired of keeping tons of car ads and notes all over the place while I was looking for a used car a few years ago. I wanted an application that will let me enter
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by oms2010 16y ago
Yeah. The parsing works for websites that are 'monitored' by organizemysearch.com (and more will be added as the website grows). So if you paste in a car ad url from cars.com it will parse the basic info for you (eg. mileage, price, make, m
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by oms2010 16y ago
I forgot to add a clickable link http://www.organizemysearch.com feel free to use user/pass:hn/hn to test it out if you want!
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by oms2010 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I have rushed a bit through the css part in order to get it out there, otherwise bugs and ideas keep piling up and you never release (even small apps like this). I have planned to switch to Blueprint css framew
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by oms2010 16y ago
Yeah, I was thinking about the car forums approach actually, but the widget idea is a good too. Thanks for the feedback.
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by oms2010 16y ago
"Excuse my buzz word but I think the only way you can make it spread is to embed a virus". I guess I can't take that as a compliment, but will acknowledge much room for improvement of the website :) As for SEO, I'm not just looking to optim
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by oms2010 16y ago
I hear you, and thanks for the feedback. The idea of this webapp however is to do things more than that. You could say some people prefer using even bookmarks or in my case sometimes I used to use notepad for keeping track of car ads for ex
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Ask HN: How to get users/traffic who are actually interested in this webapp?
5 points by oms2010 16y ago|16 comments
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by oms2010 16y ago
Excellent design/graphics. I would suggest making the description of what the site does a little longer (not too long though). Example: "Supplement face-to-face classes with a HootCourse and get to know each other faster." ... add another s
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by oms2010 16y ago
looks like the email you entered was too long. try a shorter one if you can. i'll put in a fix now for larger fields for email addresses.
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by oms2010 16y ago
thanks for the ideas. next version be to make it more user friendly. by comments, do you mean a description for each field in a search? or a comment field for each item?
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by oms2010 16y ago
clickable link: http://www.organizemysearch.com
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Ask HN: Review my app: www.organizemysearch.com
6 points by oms2010 16y ago|5 comments