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Comment by sylvinus | Hacker News Reader

You're re-defining eCommerce? Sure.

Strangely, the screenshots shown look pretty much the same as anything else.

Impressively un-called for remark. I don't know the man, nor do I know much about kout (hence his private beta), but give the man a chance to make a difference in the space.

give the man a chance to make a difference in the space

What space, asking for an introduction? There is no product on that page besides this.

Congratulations on missing the point.

I may have (intentionally) missed the "I has a product" point, but I believe the point of the post is public exposure, and critiques are a part of that.

I have to say, getting money from Angel (and others) and still having to do this for an introduction might be a story in itself about the relative utility of incubators & VCs beyond cash.

I think the point is that you can't claim to re-define something until you've actually done it.

Raising money is not doing a lot, creating usable products is. Why don't you explain exactly what makes your ecommerce offerings so different? Ecommerce is incredibly complex and getting more complex with new changing tax laws, shipping calculations, plus schema.org integrations for accommodating the massively wide type of products that are sold online.

We're not targeting big head merchants (shopify style merchants). We're targeting micro merchants, the long tail of ecommerce; think the blogger who's still using ejunkie and paypal to sell online, or the kickstarter style sellers who just have one product and need a quick simple way to sell it.

It is missing the point rather impressively to comment on this fellow's product. It is the clever pitch that makes this front page worthy.

It's an underwhelming landing page. I agree.

Our vision and what we want to do over the next few years is what wakes us up in the morning.

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