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Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

I've been using it for several years, and really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Do you consider it a risk, that Amazon one day can decide to turn the tap off?

An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Hey nice site. Do you plan to support amazon.in as well? I am currently using Keepa, they support .in as well as alerts on telegram

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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somewhere in comments, there is mention of Amazon not minding CCC as long as it sends traffic.

I’d expect more to the picture. CCC driven traffic is different than usual affiliate one, in way that it has strong revenue drag effect.

And even if it’s Amazon’s preference of sale over profit, it is matter of time when they decide they have enough scale to chop-off whatever contributes to quality of their profit.

I’d love someone with more pricing, marketing expertise to comment on this.

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Could you maybe shed some light why was Japan dropped from the supported country list?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you consider it a risk, that Amazon one day can decide to turn the tap off?

An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.

+1 In meanwhile, this is great value add and win-win.

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Could you maybe shed some light why was Japan dropped from the supported country list?

Amazon's policies changed in both China and Japan. This cut us off from the product data in those countries.

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Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Hey nice site. Do you plan to support amazon.in as well? I am currently using Keepa, they support .in as well as alerts on telegram

Thank you. We currently have no expansion plans.
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