Twitter acquires Bagcheck

http://bagcheck.com/blog/03-bagchecking-into-twitter

by razin • 15 years ago

77 37 15 years ago

joshu• 15 years ago

congrats, sam and luke!

shalmanese• 15 years ago

Bagcheck had so much promise :(. The UI was so elegantly designed and there are still bits of it that I'm trying to pull apart for my own designs.

At the end of the day though, the engagement just wasn't there. You would go on there a few times, check out a couple of bags, maybe create one or two and then never come back. It's sad it didn't work out but the founders are all insanely talented people and I'm sure whatever they go on to do next, it will also be awesome.

jkaljundi• 15 years ago

Quite interesting they went for one of the smallest ones in this sphere and not Pinterest: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bagcheck.com+pinterest.com+... - also similar is thefancy.com.

notatoad• 15 years ago

i get the impression that this is more of a talent acquisition. i doubt twitter cares about the product all that much.

jsavimbi2• 15 years ago

I'm with you on that, but the concept is a good one albeit not widely adopted. I've only created on bag, but I still peek in there now and again to see what other people are putting together. It's niche, but still a good, simple starting point if Twitter wants to get into eCommerce. That being said, Luke is a talent no matter where he goes and hopefully he'll bring about some good UX to the poorly-designed Twitter front end.

hashbo3• 15 years ago

No kidding, Sam’s a very talented guy. I was hanging around the Groovy project back in 2005, I think, before he became Yahoo CTO. You could really tell what a smart guy Sam was and his ideas and critiques were always balanced. So I’m sure this is yet another blessing for Twitter.

faramarz2• 15 years ago

Thanks for mentioning Pinterest as a comparison, because for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what Bagcheck was or how to use it.

Pinterest on the other hand took me a mere 10seconds to figure out what it was and how enthusiastically I wanted to use it.

groby_b2• 15 years ago

If you don't mind, would you explain what the draw is? (I'm genuinely trying to understand. I don't _get_ pinterest, and given the interest it's generating, I'd love to...)

sfkid• 15 years ago

pintrest looks great, like a tumblr for adults.

hashbo3• 15 years ago

I actually thought Bagcheck was a cool idea, I think given some time it would have morphed/pivotted into more of a business than just an idea.

rokhayakebe2• 15 years ago

Pinterest is probably my favorite web discovery for 2011. I can easily get lost in there for 15 minutes/day repining. I am sure some users spend one hour or more/day on the site.

kaylarose• 15 years ago

Same here. I am planning my wedding, and Pinterest has been invaluable! Protip: If you can find the founders email (I can't remember of the top of my head), you can ask for an invite directly, instead of rotting away on the invite list.

smackfu• 15 years ago

Is this a talent acquisition, or does Twitter plan to roll this into their site somehow?

transition5• 15 years ago

Annoys me when i can't create an account on a site without a twitter or facebook account. Not everybody uses these services.

dpcan• 15 years ago

But enough people do. Time to get on the bandwagon.

transition5• 15 years ago

I view Facebook and Twitter as unnecessary playgounds for me. My objective is to limit my channels of communication so i don't have to micromanage all these unproductive services. I don't see why you'd want to limit your user base like this.

MatthewPhillips• 15 years ago

Implement Facebook Connect: 5 minutes. Implement own login system (with login screen, register screen, forgot your password screen, CAPTCHA, and making sure BCrypt is working properly): X hours. I'll do the former, even if it annoys 0.1% of possible users.

chico_dusty• 15 years ago

Implement Facebook Connect: 5 minutes

Implement own login system: X hours

Selling your users privacy down the river: Priceless

moheeb• 15 years ago

I have to add that your method makes it really easy to avoid lame sites also!

mitchellhislop• 15 years ago

I see this fairly often. Why not make an account solely for auth/signup on these sites. Most of the time people who say this talk about how they don't have the time, don't want to be on social media, concerns about privacy, etc. If you have an account just for logging in to FB Connect, it seems like the problems are alleviated.

michaelschade• 15 years ago

I think the concern here is that, even if you make an account specifically for the purpose of authenticating to other websites, you're still telling Facebook, Google, Twitter... which websites you're signing up on, which they of course have an interest in knowing so that they can better profile you as a user.

Note: I have accounts on these sites and actively use them, just my guess as to other peoples' rationale behind not getting an account.

eli• 15 years ago

A twitter account is a pretty low bar. You don't have to use your real name and you don't have to tell anyone it exists.

matthewj• 15 years ago

Wish I had come across BagCheck before. It looks like a great site!

khangtoh• 15 years ago

Looks like just a talent acquisition of one developer. The other co-founder, Luke, is not even joining Twitter. If I would to guess, the acquisition is sub $500,000. Any other guesses?

brianm• 15 years ago

Sam is worth well over 500k.

hashbo3• 15 years ago

That was my impression too :-)

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