Remember the Flowers

Consumer and social

gift delivery

SHOW HN2011

7points
6comments
#912of 1,097 in 2011
Top 84%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Love the concept

    From 1 comment
    • Love the concept. And I especially appreciate that you've got a free plan available. One question: Why does the Anniversary Date field ask for a year? I'd expect it to refer only…
      joshuacc on HN
  • Randomized delivery idea is interesting

    From 1 comment
    • I agree that randomness might be a bit better here, or if you could do something like randomize destination (idk didn't sign up). That way you can send flowers to the significant…
      TuaAmin13 on HN

Objections

  • Scheduled delivery may remove the magic of surprise

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't criticism of your service per see, but wouldn't scheduling flower delivery take out some of the magic and fun of receiving flowers? Maybe you could add some randomness…
      arkitaip on HN
  • Signup page showed a Heroku error

    From 1 comment
    • Love the concept. And I especially appreciate that you've got a free plan available. One question: Why does the Anniversary Date field ask for a year? I'd expect it to refer only…
      joshuacc on HN
  • Web design is generic

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't criticism of your service per see, but wouldn't scheduling flower delivery take out some of the magic and fun of receiving flowers? Maybe you could add some randomness…
      arkitaip on HN

Requests

  • Add randomness to delivery timing

    From 2 comments
    • This isn't criticism of your service per see, but wouldn't scheduling flower delivery take out some of the magic and fun of receiving flowers? Maybe you could add some randomness…
      arkitaip on HN
    • I agree that randomness might be a bit better here, or if you could do something like randomize destination (idk didn't sign up). That way you can send flowers to the significant…
      TuaAmin13 on HN
  • Randomize delivery destination

    From 1 comment
    • I agree that randomness might be a bit better here, or if you could do something like randomize destination (idk didn't sign up). That way you can send flowers to the significant…
      TuaAmin13 on HN
  • Make anniversary date day and month only

    From 1 comment
    • Love the concept. And I especially appreciate that you've got a free plan available. One question: Why does the Anniversary Date field ask for a year? I'd expect it to refer only…
      joshuacc on HN
  • Align plan boxes on pricing page

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't criticism of your service per see, but wouldn't scheduling flower delivery take out some of the magic and fun of receiving flowers? Maybe you could add some randomness…
      arkitaip on HN

Questions

  • Why anniversary date asks for a year

    From 2 comments
    • Love the concept. And I especially appreciate that you've got a free plan available. One question: Why does the Anniversary Date field ask for a year? I'd expect it to refer only…
      joshuacc on HN
    • Maybe so you can do 10th anniversary, golden anniversary and so on? I can't get onto the site but that would seem plausible.
      kingofspain on HN
  • Was the MVP researched

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't criticism of your service per see, but wouldn't scheduling flower delivery take out some of the magic and fun of receiving flowers? Maybe you could add some randomness…
      arkitaip on HN

Alternatives named

  • Surprise Her With Flowers service built by another commenter

    From 1 comment
    • http://www.surpriseherwithflowers.com/t/hnr I built a similar service for a [humorous] weekend project.
      hartard on HN
  • xkcd 576 style saving implementation

    From 1 comment
    • I agree that randomness might be a bit better here, or if you could do something like randomize destination (idk didn't sign up). That way you can send flowers to the significant…
      TuaAmin13 on HN

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