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Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

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Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…

A little off topic, but why did you leave poker?

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#42

Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?

Yeah, this has been happening for a while: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2010/12/how_...

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

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I like the styling. Clean, readable, works on hi-res screens and small screens like mobile. What would you want more? 3MB of CSS?

Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a c…

With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#45

Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?

I wonder if this is just a coincidence of timing between your visits. I went to the link in a normal browser tab, an d it was $699 the first time. Perhaps Amazon just happened to change the price between your visits.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#47

Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…

Love the clean readable style, great job!

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#48

Good timing for this product! With so many Macbook Pro users upset and looking for Linux (like myself) , being able to find a laptop with excellent build quality will be really nice!

I was one of these people. I just got a maxed-out Thinkpad X1 Carbon and run Ubuntu on it. It's a really nice machine, you should look at it.

Thank you for the comment! I'm always looking to hear opinions of Linux friendly excellently built laptops :)
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