Launch HN: Chums (YC W21) – Shop online with friends
Hey HN, we’re Noah and Dick. We founded Chums ( https://www.chums.co ) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping online. A lot of people ask their friends for advice when they're shopping. We think this can be more fun and we think your friends can help you find the right product, especially during COVID when we're stuck at home. Noah launched the first version of Chums in late 2019. Originally, the app was a platform for users to find and share referral codes. Users could create a profile page and add their favorite brands to it. Soon they started adding products and reviews to the brands on their profile, and it became clear that the social shopping opportunity had much more potential than sharing referral codes. Noah started digging into the world of ecommerce, social shopping, and affiliate marketing, and a mutual friend introduced
Why it failed
Hey HN, we’re Noah and Dick. We founded Chums ( https://www.chums.co ) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping online. A lot of people ask their friends for advice when they're shopping. We think this can be more fun and we think y
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- dickfickling
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews