Auctomatic in open beta now

[palish]

Congrats! Some first impressions:

- http://www.auctomatic.com/app/username is a little strange. Would it be a big headache to remap it to http://www.auctomatic.com/username?

- It would be really neat if you could have a preview button when you're setting up your auction that generates a full preview. That is, the preview would generate HTML identical to Ebay's but with your auction info.

[phil]

Thanks for the feedback!

On your points:

- To prefix or not to prefix is always a tradeoff (as in, http://twitter.com/ev vs. http://google.com/a/foo.com). We wanted to keep some of that tasty top level namespace open, and figured /app/ would be an easy prefix to remember.

- That's definitely a good point, and something we're quite likely to do soon.

[phil]

By the way, we've also got a reddit style site set up for requesting features at: http://features.auctomatic.com

Thus far we've mostly used it internally to track requests people have emailed us, but it's time to open it up. So, if you signed up for an Auctomatic account and have some ideas, we'd love to hear about them.

Thanks!

[sri]

trying to confuse the competition? :-) (where XXXXXXX is the site name and YYYYYYY is the session id (?)).

looks great though!!

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX_run.py?=YYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_main.asp=YYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_autoexec.bat=YYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_run.arc=YYYYYYYYYY

https://auctomatic.com/app/XXXXXXX?_dispatch.fortran=YYYYYYY

[byrneseyeview]

Didn't pg say somewhere that Viaweb included cgi-bin in urls for the same reason?

Edit: Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4625

[almost]

Making eBay suck less, what a bloody good idea!

I will be giving your site a try next time I sell something on eBay...

[trekker7]

This seems like a great idea! Congrats.