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Just launched, do you understand what the service is about?

Just pushed the last revision before going open beta at: https://www.shopwindow.co

If you had to describe in a line what the service is about, what would you say?

Thanks a lot for your time! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    I have lots of questions, I guess itโ€™s selling stuff through social media, but what does the storefront look like? Are products just periodically tweeted out? It seems like maybe this is best for services or stores with a very limited product set? Iโ€™m having trouble visualizing the customer experience.

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      Hey lrner ๐Ÿ‘‹

      You actually hit some interesting points:

      • Re storefront: The idea is the social network is a great storefront, where you cause a good impression that leads people wanting to buy from you.

      • Re: selling stuff through social media is right, but would does it look to you like a market place (Amazon like) or a tool (Shopify like)?

      • Re: stores with limited product set, mmmmmm... Why?

      • Re: trouble visualizing the customer experience, you mean the seller experience or the buyer experience?

      Great questions lrner, would love to hear your thoughts! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    Selling stuff thru the social media

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      Spot on!

      Question for you, what is the impression: more of a Shopify or more of an Amazon? ๐Ÿค”

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        I would say Amazon

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          ๐Ÿ‘ Thanks Roberto!

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    Read the above the fold. No idea what it does. Something about social media and selling?

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      Well, actually you are almost spot on with that what you said! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Question for you: how would it sound to you saying on the subheader something like "A social media first Shopify!"

      Would your impression be good? Bad?

      Thanks Josh!

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        Bad impression. You can't control social media, best you can do is put a link in, so why not just link to Shopify?

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          You are right, all you can do is to place a link. And that is all you need to sell! ๐Ÿ™‚

          Linking to Shopify, as a customer:

          • Your checkout will be at least x5 slower, chances are you won't buy, when you could buy in 1-click with ShopWindow!

          • You will receive receive emails about your order, when you could be notified with faster and more freshly on your social app (Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Twitter...).

          โ˜๏ธThe customer experience is different and agile, you recommend it to a friend!

          As a seller:

          • Spend time deciding on the look and feel of the front end.
          • Spend time finding a Shopify consultant.
          • Spend money paying him and good luck getting things done.
          • Have your store ready some weeks (or months later).
          • Learn to control it.
          • Pay Shopify meanwhile.
          • ...

          When you could have your store ready in 2:30min by yourself and see your first sales the very same day... And if things do not work, you cancel having spent a fraction of time, money and effort!

          โ˜๏ธ These are some reasons you would be linking to ShopWindow instead! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    Page loads sort of slow.

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      Thanks for that Cooper, good to know! ๐Ÿ‘

      How about the rest, what would you say the service is all about?

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    Hey Francisco,

    In a sentence, a marketplace for shopping through instagram/twitter?

    Love the feature list. But I do think you guys could have a much bigger/stronger impression with your main hero-splash image. Let me know if that's helpful at all. Checkout www.specta.app and let me know what you think of our project. Be ruthless haha.

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      Hey Mikaal,

      Yup, you are almost spot on! It is a tool to build your own marketplace/online store if you have presence on social networks.

      There you go my 2cents:

      • I have the impression the service is about generating:

      • Nicer reports than the ones you usually get?

      • Generating them in an easier what than the usual one?
        As said, not clear what the value proposition is.

      • I suggest showing some image, even an isometric mockup showing whats in it for me:

        • A comparison between what it is out there now and your proposition.
        • A real life example comparing side by side before/after Specta.
      • First impression is obviously too dry with the plain purple color, I assume the landing page is in the works.

      • Emojis do not correctly display on my browser, I suggest using inlined emojis as images, you can get them from Emojipedia and use the CSS position: inline property so it follows the text flow.

      • The image art on the features section, looks pretty cool, but says nothing about the service.

      I hope that helps!

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