Matt Baril

First of all, I want to apologize since I'm late for this posting. A new job combined with the Olympics being hosted by my city and jobs interviews have kept me busy and sleep deprived. But here is Idea #15!

Idea #15 Ecommerce product availability checker & push notifications thru email, phone, Social Media, etc

I currently work for the official Olympic online store and one thing we cannot do and that annoys customers is back orders. The system just doesn't support that feature and we end up advising customers to go back online on a regular basis. Most customers don't complain too much even though they wish they could place back orders. My idea is to build an app or a website on which users could set watchers/alerts for their products and would be automatically notified by email, phone, twitter, facebook, [enter your favorite communication tool here], etc. For some open source platforms, the website could even order for you since it'd be possible to automate the task. For the proprietary platforms, the user would get an alert to let them know their product is now available on the website. This service could be seen as a kind of Google Alert on steroids.

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