needleme

Hello,

For the last 6 years I've been freelancing for fashion brands taking care of all technical aspects of their online presence. That means Shopify setup, image retouch, mailing list management, A/B testing for their store design, assets for social media, collection uploads etc. Basically all the tech stuff, marketing excluded.

I realized that those needs are pretty much the same for all fashion brands, so I want to scale it to a subscription service for fashion brands. Different tiers will have different hour packages for PM and Development.

I'm starting to gather info about my monthly expenses between services I would need to have to run the business, and I'm discussing with my developer to understand pricing for development hours.

I always been a creative person, and really not in the marketing /business side, I would love any input on a path to follow to build this up. Articles, suggestions, anything you can think it would help and it will be greatly appreciated.

The project name and one line is: "Tailry — Grow your fashion brand with an in-house digital department, on demand."

I'm about to work on a project for an high end fashion brand. We have to build the website to present the collections and ideally the eCommerce to sell them.

I've been looking to a lot of fashion designer and brands websites and noticed that they all have the same style of eCommerce that to me look very "cheap" if you are a luxury brand.

Let me explain better.

Some doesn't have an online shop - celine.com - therow.com - but many others have it - acnestudios.com - stellamccartney.com -

To me those who doesn't have it gives much more the impression to look at something luxury, something special. On the others looks like I'm buying from Wallmart. They all look the same, and not only in the buying experience flow, that yes, it actually works.

This brand with who I'm working already have an online store that will sell clothes for them (they have the online exclusive), so I was thinking to propose something different for their website shopping experience, something "tailored".

So I was thinking, why I should buy from the brand website rather than an online reseller? What makes special to buy from them directly? It's not only matter of UI and UX, it's something deeper, behind.

It's like: buying in a small boutique VS buying at Walmart

Do you know any brand or website that have some "special" online shop or something that goes out from the common mass eCommerce solution?

If you have any ideas about, please share, I'd love to discuss to see how I can create a "tailored shopping experience"

Hello,

In November we're going at the Web Summit partecipating at the Alpha Program. We're looking to connect with other startups and raise funds for the project.

I have in mind how much funds we'd need, but I'm not sure about the actual valuation of the startup.

I've read many articles about, but talking with someone might be more usefull.

Best, Filippo

Hello,

I'll be in NY for two weeks, I'm the founder of Needle Vinyl, you can find us in the iPhone App Store (we're secretly online till we fix the last things)

Would love to meet some people interested in music/tech/vinyl

You can find my email in my profile

Cheers, Filippo

Hello everyone,

I know there's plenty of websites where to look for a place - and I've searched - but would be cool to find a place with someone who's interested in the things I do.

I'm the founder of Needle Vinyl, an iPhone app about vinyl records (already in App Store). I'll be there to visit my brother, for a work lunch and random fun.

If you feel that it might works for you, message me! Email in my profile here.

I'll be in SF from the 13th to the 15th August, so basically it's 2 nights, maybe one since the 14th I might be to a friends house.

Best! Filippo

The morning of the 15th I'll have to take the bus to LA from Caltrain Station

Hello,

-- scenario --

I'm the founder of Needle, a social network for vinyl records lovers. In Needle users post their vinyl records and other users can Like and Comment (with @user and #tag) our vinyl records. In our case they can also listen the preview of the song in the vinyl record.

-- user case --

Today happened that a guy posted a record similar to one in my collection so I thought I wanted to tell him to listen to my record, but I had to say something like:

"hey @mrdobelina listen to Todd Terje - Ragysh in my collection, it's #awesome!"

boring. So I thought that would be cool to directly link the album with a symbol, example:

~ragysh

that would results in:

"hey @mrdobelina listen to ~ragysh it's #amazing!"

the user can now click ~ragysh to be redirected to my post.

-- conclusion --

talking generally, now is:

@user is used to mention someone #tag is used to connect arguments

~object could be used to connect other users to a specific object

-- thoughts --

What you think? What symbol would you use instead of ~ ?

We're going to add this feature in Needle soon.

-- not intended to be spammy self promotion --

Here's the video teaser - http://bit.ly/needle_teaser

you can download and try Needle at this link, it's free and feedback is very appreciated. Soon we'll officially launch

bit.ly/needle_appstore

The @mention in comments works very bad, that's why we restarted to work on them and the ~ idea came out.