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by jonas21 3115 days ago
In case anyone is wondering (like I was), I think this is the site:

https://wishy.gift

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That's the one! Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated!
Usually landing pages for early stage products tend to be iffy but you've killed it honestly! I got what your product was in 10 secs.

What would be awesome is a link to a demo wishlist!

Agree with this, your landing page is _so good_ I'm going to use the format to replace my own garbage landing page. Thank you for the inspiration, this is awesome. You're starting a movement!

By the way, congrats on 171 users :)

Wow, thank you! Good luck with your own project too!
Thank you for those awesome words!

A demo wishlist is a great idea, perhaps with the ability to switch between how the creator sees the list and how others do?

Really appreciate the suggestion, will be adding this!

Just a friendly heads up (love the idea!)... clicking "Why Facebook?" works on Chrome, but not Safari (I'm on Safari 11, macOS 10.13.1).
Thank you for letting me know! I'll have a look at this as soon as I get my hands on a mac!
On the landing page below "share it", "check of" should be "check off".
It's been like that for a whole year without anyone noticing - or at least without anyone telling us. Thank you for doing so!

Fixed in next build :)

I'm liking how it looks, but, at least on mobile, I'm not able to find a list of features. I don't know if my behaviour is typical but on most sites that means I move on to find a similar site that does include a feature list.

For example, it was recently sinterklaas (Dutch holiday with a tradition of randomizing who gets who gifts) so someone in the family set up a list on https://www.lootjestrekken.nl/. That way everyone got an email, as soon as you clicked 'OK' on that email you're able to make a wishlist, ask questions to the group, ask anonymous questions to the person you're meant to buy for, etc.

I guess what I'm asking is, without having to watch some videos (it's quicker to hit next result on Google) how can I know how your product works? I see right away it's vaguely what I'm looking for, but as you can tell I've got specific demands, and I don't think I'm the only one. So how can I know it's exactly what I'm looking for?

Looks interesting but I don't have a Facebook account :/
The dependency on Facebook is kind of unfortunate, as it excludes those who either don't have a Facebook account, or for various reasons do not want to use it to sign up for services. I am myself in the latter category, but went with it as I wanted a single login, and saw it as the best alternative at the time - got some more about that in the 'why Facebook?' section on the site.

Would really like to provide a solution that could work without login, but I'm kinda clueless on how to solve this in a good way, that allows for the creator not knowing what has been checked off or not, as well as allowing others to both check and later - perhaps even on another device - uncheck items :/

On the landing page the images within the gray circles are not loading... assuming that there were images (I only see grey big circles).

Using chromium (desktop)

How strange! These are autoplaying, muted videos, which has worked on every platform and browser I've tried so far. What OS and which version of chromium are you on?
I like the idea and could see myself using it, but I don't use Facebook.