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Show HN: Suto – Expert advice on products via SMS

11 points| Nimsical | 10 years ago |asksuto.com | reply

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[+] mwetzler|10 years ago|reply
Cool idea! I just submitted a question and I'm waiting for an answer :)

Just wanted to provide some feedback. On the screen that says "Thanks for texting Suto! You'll get a response shortly.", there is a section that says "Here are some other questions being answered now:"

It's blank!

That makes it seem like no one is using it, or something is broken. I really like the idea of having some examples, there, though. Maybe just switch to some good examples rather than a feed?

[+] Nimsical|10 years ago|reply
Hey!

Thanks for the feedback, I just realized that the feed is still there on mobile. We were supposed to take it out (mainly because we wanted to give some more relevant examples instead).

Hope you enjoy the answer that's about to come your way!

[+] Nimsical|10 years ago|reply
Hey HN - I'm one of the creators of Suto. I created it because I needed to buy a projector and spent hours researching the best projectors and still couldn't make a decision. I finally asked my friend who knows a lot about projectors, and he gave me a super simple answer. So I thought it would be cool to have a friend like that for everything.

Would love to hear your feedback on Suto's helpfulness/experience, or any questions you have!

[+] brahnema|10 years ago|reply
This is an awesome solution to a pretty painful problem for me. The way I buy something is I typically spend 90% of my time researching and deciding what to buy and just 10% on actually finding the best place to buy it and pulling the trigger. Most millennials I know do the same and spend a lot of time on researching products, which is definitely time consuming. Pretty cool to see a viable solution here. Giving it a try now!
[+] Nimsical|10 years ago|reply
We came up with it b/c we did the same thing – spend hours researching and asking friends (who were experts in a specific field) to find the right product.

We want Suto to be that friend you have that just know about all the best products in the world.

[+] dynofuz|10 years ago|reply
Why not look at product review ratings or narrow down the product based on the features you want? Is it that you don't know what features are important? I'm interested because I also do work with product search