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Nice idea. Reminds me of those "post a screenshot of your desktop" threads you used to see on forums.

I've been working on Rokumo, an automated gift-shopping service:

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I think this could be a really useful tool for relationship management - almost like BloomThat with a schedule. Perhaps you could pitch this to businesses that need to impress their clients and create pre-scheduled gift sets. For example, send flowers for your prospective clients' birthday, send chocolates and a thank-you after a meeting, etc.


Maybe. That's what most people use GiftsOnTime (our biggest competitor) for, actually.


Just checked out their website. It's really unclear how they could help a mom-and-pop small business - maybe this could be your niche. If it's something you'd be interested in, why not put together a few gift packages (or better, series of gifts) that could be useful in courting a new landlord/potential investor, etc? You could differentiate yourself by clearly explaining why your gift series would be useful to someone who pays for your service.


I like this idea. But where do you place the orders for your gifts, or is this something you handle yourself as well ?


Most of the gifts right now are pretty generic and we have software that automates it. Later we'll have to figure out how to scale this.




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