Sean Flannagan

The Perfect Product Page

Sean Flannagan — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:57:00 +0000

The product page—that all-important detail page on an ecommerce site where you purchase a product—is an undervalued content format. I see a huge variety of them nowadays but only a few really good ones, and bad practices are rampant. I’ve posted before about what I think matters in a product page (in brief: high-quality photos, clarity, personality and shareability), and thought I’d share a few…

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Cool Stores

Sean Flannagan — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:15:00 +0000

I’m inspired by the stores I’ve been finding lately. I’ve written about cool independent stores before, but the frequency of my encounters with them has increased dramatically and the stores have been getting more international. Most of them I find through Wanelo; a few via Instagram. I’m unsure how people discover cool stores elsewhere on the internet currently, other than the occasional Google…

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The Discovery of Fascinating Objects

Sean Flannagan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:46:00 +0000

It’s not very cool to say so but the Flickr iPhone app is the most addictive app on my phone at the moment after Wanelo. The kind of app I’ll start using and then blissfully ignore text messages and the outside world until I get my fill. It’s not because of the great photos my friends continue to upload there (Instagram owns that part of my brain now and isn’t giving it back)…

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More Richly Interpretable Information

Sean Flannagan — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:45:56 +0000

Wanelo gets a lot of press in high school and college newspapers, which appear to be thriving. I did an interview for one recently that’s print-only—The Arrowhead from Souderton Area High School in Souderton, Pennsylvania—and it seemed worth reposting the Q&A online because it’s so comprehensive. It also reminded me of the interviews my friend Dylan and I did in high school for our hardcore music…

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The Company Your Company Keeps

Sean Flannagan — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:30:33 +0000

If you have an app or web service out there with a rapidly increasing number of people using it, one of the most interesting things in the world for you is how people talk about it. Wanelo has a lot of young users who like to post screenshots of their home screens, and these images of personal app arrangement are worth a thousand tweets. In these shots, Wanelo is almost never grouped…

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Please Don’t Use the S-word

Sean Flannagan — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:47:34 +0000

I was interviewed by Sandi MacPherson the other day for Quibb, which is gradually growing into something really great. Here’s the post and here’s the repost: What are you working on? What does your role entail? What are your favorite tech/startup news sites and blogs? What is the most innovative company right now in the social commerce space? You spent a few…

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Small Stores, Big Ideas

Sean Flannagan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:40:08 +0000

I discover a lot of small independent stores through Wanelo. These are relatively small operations, larger than your average Etsy shop or eBay business, but much smaller than your average corporation or retail operation with more than one address. You might call them boutiques, but they’re quite different from what that word conjures up on sites like FarFetch. They have a ton of personality…

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My Wanelo Feed Erupted with Goodness Last Night

Sean Flannagan — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:36:18 +0000

This natural event occurred because we began surfacing the individual shops behind the hundreds of thousands of products from Etsy that have been posted to Wanelo by members. Members who had been following the etsy.com “store” on Wanelo and had saved Etsy products are now following the shops behind those products. If you happen to be following people like TouMou or anastridendeavor on Wanelo (or…

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The New Wanelo

Sean Flannagan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:36:29 +0000

It’s generally considered pretty risky to rewrite, redesign, rebuild, rebrand and relaunch a service that’s just started to take off among users, but it’s working out nicely at Wanelo. And we like it dangerous. Wanelo‘s got a new look (big up: @ednacional), new backend (Ruby, PostgreSQL, Solr, Redis), new frontend (Haml, SCSS, CoffeeScript, Gibson-Regular), new bookmarklet (@jicksta…

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The Discovery Problem

Sean Flannagan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:24:46 +0000

There are a lot of really awesome and well-made things being sold by creative businesses these days. Things you do not know you want until you see them, because you did not know they existed and wouldn’t have thought to search for them. Things that enrich your life because they have meaning for you (you discovered it!) and are special or rare. There are a lot of great platforms for selling…

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