kyrferg's forum posts 1

Emailed this before I found the thread:

1. Gear swapping. Make a "trade" category, let members make offers/contact each other about items they have for trade. I could write up better plans for this feature
2. Add reverb links on top of amazon and ebay. Reverb.com is an awesome resource for finding prices and buying/selling instruments. I think a link to the reverb page would be cool but a full integration between equipboard's "trade" board and reverbs sale items would be awesome.
3. Let people tag their equipment. Maybe start with a defined set of tags from the start. These could be genres (punk, latin, etc) certain types of sounds (grunge, dance, etc). The tags could be very helpful for the shopper who logs in looking for specific pedal or synth. The "explore" button could let you search tags as well. You could explore what users use to make "punk" music or check out "vintage" gear.
4. Gear history. Sometimes I accidentally delete items by clicking the little X. There's no warning/prompt so that's a possible quick fix, but it might be cool if you could see everything you had added previously. This could be a hidden category labeled "old" or "deleted." This would require soft-deleting the items in the DB so probably a bigger project than a simple validation when you delete something.
5. "Notes" section. Let users add a note or comment on each item or each section. This could help themselves stay organized or help others learn more about the gear and how it's used. For example, I could leave a note saying that a specific pedal sounds sweet with my passive guitar but gets too muddy when i play my active guitars through it. (This might already exist and I just haven't found it yet)
6. Add an optional postal code to user profiles. Then we can search others locally through the "explore" option. Could get groups meeting up to try each other's gear, trade, buy/sell gear, start bands, or jam together