Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/bountii-launches-aims-at-better-price-comparison-shopping/

by danielha • 19 years ago

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zach• 19 years ago

Price search is a tough market with a lot of room for improvement out there, so I think this is a great launch. I mean, Google is only so-so when you expect they would rock the party at this.

In fact, if I funded startups, price search is one of those areas with enough opportunity that I would fund one every year in that space until someone gets something good going.

Now, so far I'm not seeing anything too hot from Bountii, but they have launched (congrats) and I do like the results page.

But okay, one thing. This is totally one of those cases where the minimalist front page sucks out loud. Because yes, you do want a simple front page, but you also want to give people what they want from you right up front. Bountii has got great product images and they're not front and center to arouse my inner consumer? That's tragic. It should just have a few top products right under the search box on the front page.

Congrats to the Bountii founders. Go have a Moons Over My Hammy and get ready to really work some magic in the upcoming months.

mkull• 19 years ago

Work on your SEO Bountii! A big source of your traffic is going through your organic search rankings. Theres some very simple things you can do which will give you a big boost. http://www.websitegrader.com/wsgid/361302/default.aspx

Rewrite your urls, eg: http://bountii.com/search.php?item=ipod%20touch%208gb should be something like http://bountii.com/ipod-touch-8gb

Congrats on getting something up, you have a long way to go though.

henning• 19 years ago

too bad the word "bounty" is so closely associated with paper towels.

other than that, congrats for launching after taking on an ambitious idea.

Caligula• 19 years ago

I have a brilliant suggestion for Bountii's theme song/catchphrase:

"The quicker picker-upper, Bountii!"

The rational being it surely helps pick up some great deals online.

mynameishere• 19 years ago

If you could aggregate user comments from different sources, that would be a very nice thing. I go to amazon.com mainly for the reviews.

This sort of thing reminds me of just how trivial the reasons for using, or not using, a website are. When froogle renamed itself to google.com/products, I pretty much stopped using it. Why? Because when I do a product lookup, I want it as fast as possible. That's the most important thing.

...notice that the "F" and "R" in "FROOGLE" are both on the left side of the keyboard. Thus, I could type "FR" with my left hand and use the mouse to select "froogle.com" in firefox's dropdown in the address box. Can't do that with google.com/products.

far33d• 19 years ago

Me too... I buy things on amazon mainly because of the large number of quality reviews. I like to read the best and worst reviews, compare them against my own personal priority list, and then purchase.

brlewis• 19 years ago

I really like how easily shipping gets added. I just ordered a kill-a-watt through newegg using bountii.

Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping

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