monote

Easily remember and organize products you want to buy

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Easily remember and organize products you want to buy

12 followers

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monote lets you save products from around the web to find them again later: ↳ Remember the things you want to buy 💸 ↳ Organize your products in different collections 📦 ↳ Make smarter purchase decisions 🙏

Launch tags:Chrome Extensions•Productivity•E-Commerce

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Maker

Hi Product Hunters! 👋 Today is a special day for me: I've been actively using PH for years, but this is the first time I'm posting as a Maker - yay! :) ✨ I quit my job in October last year to learn how to code and build something of my own and monote is the result of these last few months!

😔 THE PROBLEM ____ I often stumble upon interesting products on the web, but then can't find them again later. I used to be a big fan of Svpply back in the day, but never found a good alternative when it was shut down (RIP).

😌 THE SOLUTION ____ So I decided to built my own tool: monote is a bookmarking app for products. It's a little a Chrome Extension that lives in your browser and whenever you see something interesting you can quickly add it to your Wants. (If you don't use Chrome you can also add things directly on the site). 📦 ORGANIZE PRODUCTS IN COLLECTIONS ____ Instead of just having one big wishlist, you can organize your products in different collections. I have collections for Books I Want to Read, Furniture I Like (I just moved into a new apartment and don't want to buy the first best thing I see) and keep track of all my belongings (I try to live a minimalistic life style).

You can also build collections based on articles, videos, books or podcasts: I often find myself listening to podcasts or reading blog articles that mention a lot of products and wish there was a quick way to find and save them. Here are a few examples: * Marc Andreesen Reading List (https://www.monote.io/collection...) * Blue Bottle Brewing Tools (https://www.monote.io/collection...) * Tim Ferriss' best purchases under $100 (https://www.monote.io/collection...) 🗒FOR LIST JUNKIES ____ All collections are available as lists and let you sort the containing items by name, comment, category or price. Take this collection of all products listed in Tools of Titans for example: You order it alphabetically by product name, by the person who recommended it and by product category.

I hope you'll find monote as useful as I do and come up with other clever ideas how to use it :) Happy to answer any questions you might have! PS: I'm a terrible programmer and this is literally the first time I built a product, so if you encounter any bugs (which I'm sure you will) - please let me know! ;)

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

Forgot to add: Big thanks to the entire 🚧 WIP Community for all the feedback and encouragement! :)

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8yr ago

@lehrjulian I like the simple design, upvoted! Can you tell more about the chrome extension and how you build it (tutorials, sites, links…)? Thank you!

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8yr ago

There

I love the design! 😍 And keen to see where do you grow the product. One suggestion for the design: I only can see 2 of those products in the front-page, I found them a bit big, You may try something smaller to see how it looks?

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@morajabi thanks mohammad! :) interesting feedback: so you mean show 3 or more columns of cards rather than just 2?

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8yr ago

There

@lehrjulian Maybe but I just thought it is a lot of scroll to see more products :)

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@morajabi thanks! i'll add this to the feature request list!

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8yr ago

Inspiratio

Liked the look and your focus, really love the minimalist design. Regarding bugs: when using the Chrome Extension to save products, I noticed that the main image is not suggested, instead some broken/tiny thumbnails e.g. on https://hiutdenim.co.uk/products... maybe try to detect only the largest JPGs on the page?

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@matas Thanks Matas! Yes, the image scraper needs a lot of improvement! Working on it!

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8yr ago

The design is very pleasing to the eye. Can you please explain why would one use this product over Pinterest?

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@akashdmukherjee17 Great question! I use Pinterest a lot - but only for things that are visually appealing! I'd never use it to save books, movies, etc. Since monote is only about products, you can also sort things by category, price etc.

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8yr ago

Community Manager Jobs

I'm loving the design. It's an interesting journey of yours from not knowing how to code and now building products like this. Great stuff, Julian.

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@rafyasarmatta thanks mohammed! that's really encouraging feedback! :)

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8yr ago

There

@rafyasarmatta @lehrjulian Wow you learnt to code along the way? Let me guess, were you mainly a designer before? :)

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@rafyasarmatta @morajabi Did some coding courses before this and designed websites as a kid, but never built an actual product. My background is more in marketing / biz-dev actually.

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8yr ago

Community Manager Jobs

@lehrjulian :) Keep doing what you do best.

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8yr ago

Community Manager Jobs

@morajabi @lehrjulian Transformation from Biz-dev/marketing to a maker. Wow! I will ping you on WIP. Need some help.

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8yr ago

There

Another question Julian! Logo looks really cool, but I'm not sure it reflects what the app is, do you mind sharing what's behind the logo? 🙂 Thanks!

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@morajabi Great question! I wanted to give the whole site a Japanese feel / aesthetic. I also wanted something that's unique and recognisable.

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8yr ago

There

@lehrjulian Ah, cool! But the only issue is there are people using avatars like this, when I see it, I think it it your avatar/profile pic, rather than a product logo, does that make sense to you?

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8yr ago

FindTheCompany

Can you not drop all the URL params? e.g. http://www.clubmonaco.com/produc... doesn't work. Also, it's not intuitive to know how to delete things.

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8yr ago

Linear

Maker

@moyicat Thanks! Super useful feedback!! This is not something I had thought of when removing parameters .. will try to find a workaround for this! Deleting things: If you remove an item from your Wants and Collections it won't show up on your profile anywhere. Problem with deleting is that other people might have saved the item already. What do you think would be the best way to handle this? Allow delete as long as no one else has saved it?

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8yr ago

FindTheCompany

@lehrjulian Some thoughts on deleting things: - Deleting an item from a collection: Ideally, within a collection, I can go into an edit view where I can batch remove items from the collection and move things around. Currently "Edit" brings me to a page about the metadata of the collection, which also makes sense, but less-used imo. Right now the only way to remove an item from a collection is going into that item, and click "Added" again - that's a pattern only tech ppl would understand. - Deleting a collection: I looked around and still couldn't figure it out... - Deleting an item from the platform: this is a lesser concern of the user imo. But without the searching functionality, you will have a lot of duplicates within the platform? ^ Also, strong request to add search. Now if I happened to remove a product out of all of my collections, I couldn't find it anymore.

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8yr ago

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