Show HN: BOX'NGO - Online Buying, Selling, and Trading for Students

6 pointsDiamons2 comments

http://theboxngo.com/

I know I posted this before, but looking for feedback/opinions on what I can do to improve the site and market it. This is our MVP.

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Design Feedback: The teddy bear is somewhat distracting and makes me think this site is for selling old junk/toys. Since you are targeting students, I assume your focus should be more on used textbooks, calculators, etc. Make that clearer on your landing page.

Business Feedback: Why limit this to .edu emails? How is this different than eBay or Craigslist, other than artificially limiting the market to college students? In other words, what special ingredient do you add?

eBay is too corporate for me personally and diluted. Also, there's no trading. Think a mix of Etsy and eBay, but more personalized. Craigslist has no built in payment methods, it's all rudimentary. We do that for trades.

So overall, it's like a more personalized mixture of both.

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