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Work · December 7, 2011

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Buy Gifts by Describing the Giftee

http://www.GiftLizard.com Core idea: Describe the person you're trying to buy gifts for and it matches gifts based on those descriptions. How it works: items are tagged in many categories from descriptive, relationships (dad), jobs, hobbies, interests, personalities, places (garden). Items that match any tag show up, the more tags an item matches, the higher up it shows. Some notes: Products are hand selected and manually added to the site. The goal is interesting gifts and gift discovery. If you know exactly what you want to buy, the traditional hierarchical search works just fine. There…

Buy Gifts by Describing the Giftee launched on December 7, 2011 with 13 votes, #46 of 254 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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Gift Lizard helps shoppers find gifts by describing the person they're buying for rather than searching by product category. Users enter details about the recipient—such as their relationship, job, hobbies, interests, or personality traits—and the site displays hand-selected items tagged with matching descriptions, ranked by how many tags they match. The curated product database includes roughly 150-200 items across various categories, with traditional hierarchical search also available for those with specific ideas in mind.

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http://www.GiftLizard.com Core idea: Describe the person you're trying to buy gifts for and it matches gifts based on those descriptions. How it works: items are tagged in many categories from descriptive, relationships (dad), jobs, hobbies, interests, personalities, places (garden). Items that match any tag show up…

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