How Nano is Your IPod?

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Ever wondered how thin your IPod really is, or how it stacks up against a pack of cards? Now with Sizeasy – find out now :) The premise of this site is simple:

  1. Add your item(s) sizes
  2. Compare it with everyday items to get a better feel
  3. View it from different angles

But is it really that useful?

While a fun idea, I feel it’s a perfect example of a good idea launched way too early.

What I would really like to see:

  • Allow me to choose a product category, and then search for products by name, rather than having to manually type in a specific size.
  • Have buttons which allow me to choose ’shorter’ or ‘flatter’ etc. so I can find and compare other products with one click – then allow customers to make purchases on the site. That’s a business model right there.
  • Let the free sizing be a feature, but not the main mode of input for this service.

In short – make it really useful rather than just ‘fun’. Yes Sizeasy is still under in beta. But then again, which Web 2.0 company isn’t?

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. James Yeang Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    The good folks at Sizeasy wrote me an email after I wrote this post so I thought I’d share it…

    Hi James,

    Thanks for the write up. You have some interesting ideas with the shorter/flatter button. This one has come up before. You’re probably right about the early release thing. The idea was to release quietly and use the small audience for suggestions and testing. What actually happened was we got some very big audiences very quickly before we really had the the killer features to offer them.

    Anyway we’re well under way with the new features now and today a share feature has gone live which is a start to making the tool more useful to the masses. It basically means most people will just have to click once for the appropriate comparison or even just view the images from wherever they are hosted. Next we will be releasing an offering focused at a commercial audience particularly e-retail (keep an eye out for this in the next day or 2). After this we may well get into having our own product size database and as you suggest browse for sizes and buy through the site.

    Thanks again for the ideas and keep watching this space….!

    Steve

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