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by eatenbyagrue 2927 days ago
Check out Octopart for an example of this concept done right. To differentiate, need to work on discoverability/browseability. When I click on connectors, viewing a list of the first 150 of 490K items is not useful in any way.
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I think it’s just personal preference. For me it has several wins over octopart and I got the input filtering which is really cool. Really neat man. Shame it’s all single search at a time.
thanks boardguy. multisearch is something we may look at in the near future.
thank you eatenbyagrue. We have faceting as an input on every column for those 490k items. As with every category (like an autocomplete). As well as complete parametric search capabilities.

I looked through the logs to see your actions. You were on the site for less than 80 seconds. Did not use search or attempt to facet from the columns. Only accessed 2 category pages and then exited.

So my thoughts... do you have javascript disabled or was the faceting not visible/clear?