Merchbar

@jonvanhala Thanks for the congrats! We are dong a lot on that front, most of which I can't talk about. Sorry. :/

@xBora Yes! Thank you. :) The Foo Fighter's merch game is so good (This jacket is awesomeeee http://www.merchbar.com/merch/26...) Genre is super interesting from a data perspective. Knowing you are a nerd, who have you seen doing it well? :)

@aten Oh wow! So cheap too... Yeah, hard to do good genre filtering I guess. We're not that great at it either tbh. Just that I couldn't think of band names I wanted to search for, off the top of my head, so I had to browse to see what I'd want but I didn't want to see the Lady Gaga stuff - at that point I thought maybe if I could just select something like "indie-dance" so I could see merch from people like Cut Copy, Van She, Bag Raiders, Empire of The Sun etc...

@xBora Thats great feedback. We can really easily pull together genre-based collections of great merch in the featured tab for a short term fix. Thanks @producthunt!

@abatalion When we first tried personalization we started by matching merch to the artists in the users library, but what we found was that didn't give us any indicator of merch quality - and when you have 100k items some artists return 3000 items! So we took a new take and once an artist matched we got into merch-specific recommendations sales data and inventory amounts. Then we realized there were some really special items that wouldn't show up programatically... so we spent hours ranking 10's of thousands of items by hand. There's still a whole lot of improvement to make. In the next version we hope to allow users to tell us which recommendations are good (other that just sales).