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Show HN: subscription flowers (to keep the significant other happy)

by paulsingh on 8/26/11, 5:35 PM with 6 comments

After constantly forgetting to buy my wife flowers (and not hearing the end of it), I've got a ghetto MVP that is already keeping me out of trouble. Happy wife FTW!

Feedback? Love/hate?

http://remembertheflowers.com

  • by arkitaip on 8/26/11, 6:03 PM

    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 so that the flowers are delivered within a interval instead of always 30 days apart?

    Did you do some research to figure out the MVP?

    I understand that you're in the MVP phase right now but what are your plans wrt to the web design? The current one is very generic. Maybe some kind of flower shop design?

    I like the idea of the rookie plan :) How does your email reminder look like? I'm betting you made it easy to sign up for one of the other two plans, maybe even offering a rebate on the first delivery of roses?

    You might want to align the plan boxes on /pricing as "rookie" is shorter than the others.

  • by Tawheed on 8/26/11, 5:42 PM

  • by joshuacc on 8/26/11, 6:08 PM

    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 to day and month. Otherwise it's not an "anniversary" date but a "special date that I want to remember the anniversary of"

    Also, after trying to sign up, I got the standard Heroku error page: http://screensnapr.com/v/IfIjVS.png

  • by hartard on 8/26/11, 7:30 PM

    http://www.surpriseherwithflowers.com/t/hnr

    I built a similar service for a [humorous] weekend project.