Comments on: Ex Microsoft Team Launches “They’re Beautiful”

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:47:52 +0000

I came back 2 years later to find and upvote this comment… the flowers look exactly like something in counterstrike. Why not use, oh I don’t know, a JPEG if you can’t rotate them in 3d?

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By: Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Another Beautifully Useless App | SesliChat Sesli Sohbet

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:20:35 +0000

[...] pull in revenue, but God love ‘em. Jackson Fish Market, the ex-Microsoft team that brought us They’re Beautiful and Tafiti, launched Elmore City Dance Club earlier [...]

By: Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Another Beautifully Useless App

Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Another Beautifully Useless App — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:15:51 +0000

[...] pull in revenue, but God love ‘em. Jackson Fish Market, the ex-Microsoft team that brought us They’re Beautiful and Tafiti, launched Elmore City Dance Club earlier [...]

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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:56:06 +0000

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:41:06 +0000

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By: Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Beautiful/Useless App

Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Beautiful/Useless App — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:59:02 +0000

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By: Invitastic Brings Online Invitations Back to Basics

Invitastic Brings Online Invitations Back to Basics — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:11:37 +0000

[...] a newly-released project by Jackson Fish Market (which brought us Tafiti and They’re Beautiful!), heads in the other direction by making invitations pleasingly simple and [...]

By: Malaysian Florist Site adopts Silverlight « Kok Chiann

Malaysian Florist Site adopts Silverlight « Kok Chiann — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:14:47 +0000

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By: MajorNetworkNews

MajorNetworkNews — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:08:15 +0000

the flowers are truly ugly, and the vases look like a 3 year old made them.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:51:46 +0000

So if your a super high tech – ex microsoft employee … you go out and start a design company – then while you have no clients (becuase you probably have to charge an arm and leg to make what you made at microsoft)

– you create a virtual Flower shop … hmmm –

– I don’t think they even have a portfolio page up..

By: Vijay Teach Me

Vijay Teach Me — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:21:02 +0000

Good Idea with a lot of personality.

Vijay

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:11:28 +0000

I think they should have spent a little more time, effort, or money on making the flowers look good, especially since they are the focus of the site. The edges of the images are very aliased, and overall have a cheesy look.

By: website copywriter

website copywriter — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:22:18 +0000

I have to admit, it would be interesting to see how these virtual flowers actually wilt after not having been watered for some time. But is it possible to “bring them back from the dead?” Like start watering them right before they completely die?

Great concept though. Really fascinating stuff; I’m definitely going to try it out.

By: sputnick

sputnick — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:26:46 +0000

I’m sorry but that flowers thing is so ’90s. Can’t believe people are impressed with that. A realistic looking 3D flower that seems to grows out of the page, maybe, but the execution looks as if it was done by a 9-year-old.

Nice biz name, though, Jackson Fish Market. I look forward to checking out their site when it’s back online.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:30:14 +0000

I like this … It’s cute and it costs nothing. I wonder if it has the same effect on women?

By: MaxS

MaxS — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:13:38 +0000

> Can’t wait to see if they actually show dead flowers in the widget

…unless they will let visitors of “your” flowers to feed them at own cost, while alerting you with names of such benefactors. Once you are “in”, there are many ways to get you back

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:16:39 +0000

Looks to me like a very good idea. Site also worked fine with Firefox.

By: xpherion

xpherion — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:01:10 +0000

I like the site. Its working fine on my ff.

By: other

other — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:29:40 +0000

god, this is a stupid idea – I can picture about 1 person out of every 1000 who “gets flowers” going back to “water” them.

By: Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:00:38 +0000

I don’t get it. 37Signals is their inspiration? They make things that make our work life and communication better. And this does… what exactly?

By: bdb

bdb — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:12:47 +0000

Oops, a bit drunk perhaps, “Meth-ups”

By: bdb

bdb — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:58:14 +0000

Yes Jay, as r3solution told you, people are simply ridiculous. You, me, and bob cobb are “cheap skates”…obviously not the target market. You’ve actually admitted the existence of this demographic before, and I’m not surprised level headed people balk at the idea of paying for “cute”. Were you aware how much of the population has prescriptions for amphetamines, and the like? They have all sorts of names and are prescribed for things like ADD, ADHD, HAD, depression, etc. We should call start-ups with this kind of appeal “meth-starts”.

By: r3solution

r3solution — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:50:54 +0000

The problem with the Emperor’s New Clothes analogy is that most people bought into the Emperor’s New Clothes. One little boy is not a major advertising demographic. The issue is not whether something is stupid or not, but whether people will buy something stupid (or, more accurately, whether you can make money out of something stupid).

Personally, I don’t think this site is remotely stupid. It’s cute, and people like cute. I’ll use it to send virtual flowers to my friends, and they’ll think it’s cute, and I’ll get kudos from it, which will bring me back to the site. And the Greenhouse idea is a great one to keep other people coming back.

The key to the future will be adding more variety and options, without losing the simplicity of the concept.

Whether “premium” virtual goods that people have to pay for with real money will take off or not is more doubtful. But as long as this kind of thing is free and monetizes using non-intrusive advertising, it will definitely explode.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:34:50 +0000

Cool idea. It would be great if they could do this with cartoons and comics as well.

I mean who wouldn’t appreciate a little more laughter in their day, right?

I wish the team that thought this up all the best!

Steve, cartoonist and team member at ComicsZ
http://www.comicsz.com