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zeehiotoday at 12:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

It should be at least "Put country first, then ask for zip code".

08036 Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

08036 Hainesport, New Jersey, USA

It does make some sense to go from most general (country) to more specific (address) instead of the opposite, so the form can implement better auto completions.

However in practice postal addresses are not that clean so simple dumb forms are usually better, because it's easy for exceptions to be missed by auto completion algorithms. I would be very pissed if I had to type the zip code above and then correct the wrong guess on every website.

Either you are helpful and guess correctly or you don't guess at all.