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Ask HN: Startup ShopNow (retail store finder)

by mjs00 on 12/15/11, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

I have in the market now my iPhone App: ShopNow - it is a retail store finder with store hours. It has a few neat tricks like twitter view of results. What you see is 'foundational' as I'm building towards some future things around product search. Try the app, or see http://shopnow.com and http://shopnow.com/app.html .

Regarding what I can offer now - when folks see this they like the attempt at listing curation and something focused on local retail, but many just go back to using Google or Yelp as good enough.

I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on things that really don't work well with Google or Yelp for finding local retail stores, that I might consider at this point, as well as ways to make the app better.

(I don't have Android right now, I pulled that as I don't have bandwidth to do both that and IOS right now)