jvdmeij's comments

jvdmeij | 12 years ago | on: T-Shirt Printing API

Spreadshirt has an API. But they are more focussed on small orders instead of bulk.

jvdmeij | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any specific marketing tips for an e-commerce startup?

In order to get sales, you need traffic of course. I would focus on two channels at first and then look at others. This keeps you more focussed. These channels would be SEO and SEA.

SEO: Start writing about your topic. Both on your own site, a blog and try to get articles on external sites as well (build up the amount of links to your site). Try to include as much relevant terms in your text.

SEA: Start with a small budget, and maybe even one instrument. Set up a dedicated landingpage to point people clicking on the ads to. Keep it focussed on that topic. There are a lot of good articles about landingpage layouts and texts. Try to analyse the traffic coming from SEA and keep optimizing the landingpage and the flow throughout the website to maximize the amount of orders you get from this channel.

Hope this helps!

jvdmeij | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does your startup manage user logins?

Mostly single usernames. Everyone keeps the passwords in 1password, which is synced in their own Dropbox. The best thing about 1password is that you can look a password up easily for a team member. I suggest to everyone to use the random pwd generator in 1password as well.

jvdmeij | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: My inherently "viral" experiment: 3Pics.me

Cool idea!

Some feedback:

- The buttons browse and upload are too far apart. I thought the upload was a seperate button. Why not upload the photo as soon as an image has been selected. Seen it in other places, so it is technically possible

- Loose the C:\fakepath\. I use a Mac so that is rather daft. Just show the filename. And oh yeah, make sure it fits the box and doesn't wrap lines.

- Throw same random numbers in the URL as an identifier. I don't think people will like it if other people outside their social graph can view their picture. Just a precaution..

- Integrate the proper Twitter share button instead of linking to the Twitter site. Much cooler and more handy!

- Make the #1 #2 and #3 result balloons easily recognizable as which one is winning and which one isn't. Now it's just random colours.

Hope this helps!

jvdmeij | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Bootstrapped, Not Profitable *Yet*, & Proud: Pagify

Not a problem. Send me a message if you want to me look at a later version.

And yes I know you can do it on Facebook. But I am using your app to make my life easier. It is impossible to find anything on Facebook these days as an admin. Help me solve that problem! That is a nice mission for your app, right :)

jvdmeij | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Bootstrapped, Not Profitable *Yet*, & Proud: Pagify

Such a cool product. The Wordpress for Facebook pages. Great stuff. Hats off.

Some small hints while using it.

* When editing your page it automatically saves, at least that is what the message tells you. But after clicking the upgrade banner top left and going back, my changes are lost. Using the latest Chome stable on Mac btw. After publishing the page, my changes were there though.

* Open the page result in a new window, so I can easily go back and tweak more

* When clicking on a header in the final page, I would like for it to close so I can easily open the next one.

* I am missing a feature to delete the whole page

* (Pro version?) I would like to rename the page as well as the page icon

* (Pro version?) Would love to add and edit more pages

* (Pro version?) Be able to change the style of the page (colours, fonts, borders ,..)

jvdmeij | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Need suggestions for online t-shirt store business.

Perhaps you can start by using the service Spreadshirt offers. They handle the payment, printing and delivery, so you can focus on the niches you want to address and of course the designs. Is your idea working? Great! Then it is a good time to learn about printing shirts yourself. I think this way you can start with almost no costs and really learn if you idea is viable.
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