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Hataday – New Hat Every Day

September 5th, 2007

I recently finished work on hataday.com for a client at JustSports.net. The site functions similarly to Shirtaday in that a new item is put up for sale every single day and only a limited number are available. It’s all based on the woot.com business model. The only difference with this site is that there is no price decline with each item that is purchased. This makes sense as the hats are all pre-ordered so there is no cost decline as with t-shirts.

The site was my first interaction with authorize.net. Overall, I would say that they have a strong product offering. Their developer integration documentation is very rich and their example code covers just about everything you will need to do a full integration. I wasn’t pleased with all the hoops you have to jump through to get started with them though. For example, in order to get a developer account, you have to basically send them an email and they will get back to you in a day or two. With paypal and google, all you do is create an account through their websites and you are off and running. Much simpler and allows you to do everything you need to do without getting help from their support teams.

There weren’t too many suprises with this site and it looks to be a really good front-end for justsports.net. Let’s hope they can get some traffic flowing to the site through all of the deal of the day sites so that they can be successful.