There ’s nothing more satisfying than go after down an item online that you ’ve been hunger after for weeks — and bonus points if it ’s on sale . That ’s the prayer ofThe Hunt , a crowdsourcing platform that unleashes the powerfulness of the Internet to facilitate you recover clothes , housewares , and other modus vivendi items . If it can be find out and purchased , The Hunt ’s community of seekers will find it for you .
How it works : When you see a photo online of a must - have outfit , piece of furniture , etc . , you may go a hunt by posting it to the platform . The community ’s experts will scrub the cyberspace to retrieve that exact detail or like one , if you ’re seek something chinchy . The Hunt has become insanely pop among young woman , and its more than 3.5 million exploiter are submit 90 percent of the internet site ’s answers from their smartphones . People are spending 12–14 minutes a day in the app with the intent to buy something .
The Hunt ’s new iOS app lets you save and upvote the best answers to your searches .
The troupe released version 3.0 of itsiOSandAndroidapps on Monday with a new look and features like upvoting and spare the answers that actually solve your hunt . Before the update , if you liked an answer , you could “ gem ” it , but there was no way to distinguish out which response actually solved the hunt .
“ Instead of simply articulate it ’s a expert answer , when you want to buy something , you save it , you upvote it , ” The Hunt CEO Tim Weingarten told Macworld . “ We need to fall apart out those signal so we could meliorate our political machine - learning algorithms so we can make recommendations for products . We know what you want to purchase . ”
Weingarten envisions The Hunt becoming the ultimate in retail recommendation . hunt are label with keywords , and eventually the app will push you the best answer for each tag , so you’re able to potentially buy them . brand will soon be able-bodied to get in on the military action by submitting and promoting their own answers . The Hunt is also put to work on gamification , so community members can be commended for their expertness at lick particular kinds of hunts .
The app is presently fashion - centrical , with 80 percent of William Holman Hunt base on clothing , but The Hunt has the potential drop to invoke to a broader audience .
But do n’t expect to run for products on your Apple Watch , Weingarten said .
“ We ’re take more of a look - and - see approach , ” he say . “ Our experience is fairly immersive . The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus with big screens are more appropriate . ”
