The founder of Cooqy dropped me an email asking me to check out his site. To be honest I don't normally do this kind of thing because there are lots of other sites out there that handle reviewing new sites and products better than I ever could.
However, I am interested in how people are using APIs that are being provided and I think that this is a really full featured example of taking APIs and running with it to create something cool. On top of that I am looking for a new laptop bag so I thought I'd give it a spin and see what it was like.
I think the interface for Cooqy is interesting. It's a Flash UI that provides all sorts of goodness like better search capabilities to find what you want better. I suspect that if you're an EBay fanatic (and there are lots of them out there) that you will really enjoy that. Things like automatically showing a zoomed element of a picture is cool as well.
In the end I did end up putting in a bid on Cooqy for a laptop bag so we'll see if I win!
My tactical suggestions for Cooqy:
- searched for roomba and couldn't find anything but found it on the Ebay site
- that teeny tiny scroll box you leave for descriptions needs to be bigger, much too small right now.
On a big picture level:
I'm not sure I understand clearly why I want to use Cooqy versus going direct to EBay. Is it that the UI is so much better that I would use it over EBay? Are there other benefits I'm missing?
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