Show HN: Harvester – Shop small stores near you

Show HN: Harvester – Shop small stores near you(shopwithharvester.com)

3 points by evansjp 3 years ago | 8 comments

bruceb 3 years ago |

Cool. Might want to add box to enter a zip code for people who don't want to share their location via their browser.

evansjp 3 years ago | |

Yep you're right on there. That's been the most popular complaint--working to add that right now!

mapster 3 years ago |

Very nice! My initial thought is to specialize by solving a material sourcing problem for a niche industry and not general consumer.

evansjp 3 years ago | |

Damn that's an awesome idea! Writing that down... Thanks!

evansjp 3 years ago |

I'm actually looking for any way to improve Harvester. Finding product-market fit is SO hard, so please let me know what you hate, love, would love to see.

gitgud 3 years ago | |

> Finding product-market fit is SO hard

It's been notoriously hard to get people to use "localised recommendation apps" like this. People often just go to Google/Maps and look at what's around. Sorry to link this, but it reminds me of [1] this YouTube video by YCombinator warning about these kinds of apps.

Anyway, I do love the original style used on the site, and it's obvious that you care about the product, so I wish you luck in finding product-market fit!

[1] https://youtu.be/GMIawSAygO4?t=946

evansjp 3 years ago | | |

Thanks for the video--watched it. Dalton and Michael are definitely right that Discovery ideas are limited because their bound to finite discovery (only so many restaurants open tonight, etc). I'll start thinking of the optimal pivot from here, thanks again for the recommendation! Helped a lot.

evansjp 3 years ago | |

Also only available in US atm, so sorry to my fellas not in the States!