I just launched bagcuration.com. A while back I was looking for a new backpack, and was actually browsing for weeks to come up with a decent shortlist. There’s just so much out there. Bag Curation was built to help people find the best bag for them.
It’s still very much an MVP,
I guess this deals with more if you're selling/affiliate but I would love to see the price before having to click into a product.
That’s totally fair! It can be kind of disappointing to find a bag you love, only to see its way more than you want to spend.
I’ve just added prices to the overview page, thanks for your feedback 🙂
This is a popular website that does the same. It probably monetizes through affiliate marketing: https://www.carryology.com/product-category/best-backpacks/
On a side note, I bought a black AER daypack a couple of months ago and so far it’s been great 😀
Yeah I really like Carryology, lot’s of useful info there. I guess Bag Curation is coming more at this from a design angle 🙂
Aer have the brand/design/functionality well balanced out in my opinion. Was actually looking at maybe getting their Aer Travel Pack 2! Good to hear you’re liking their daypack 👍
This is a cool idea! Here are my comments on the business potential:
In terms of the site design/UX:
A question for you! What was Gatsby like to work with? What were the benefits of using that versus just React? Keen to know as I've worked with React but looking to make it a little less painful to get simpler projects going!
Can’t thank you enough for responding so in depth, really appreciate it!
Totally with you on the learnings/testing part. Adding new bags is indeed pretty easy, hopefully this will allow me to adapt quickly and see what works and what doesn’t. I’m not sure if I could launch my own bag, but your comment did got me thinking about maybe co-creating one, or doing some other type of partnership. Pretty far off now, but food for thought nevertheless 👌
Thanks for the suggestion, I should definitely do this. Going to try and add one over the next few days.
Absolutely agree, filters are going to be a must once the selection of bags grows. Will definitely be adding these in the (near) future.
Gatsby has been great so far. The last three years I’ve worked almost full time on React projects, so that probably helped with the speed as well. Pros I’ve found for Gatsby so far:
I hadn’t really worked with GaphQL before this, but everything is super well documented so it was easy to pick up.
In the end Bag Curation was started as an MVP, and Gatsby allowed me to get it up to speed quickly. At the moment I’m using either Gatsby, Next.js, React, or Preact for most projects, depending on my needs and the scope.
Once again thanks so much for commenting 🙌