One man show https://www.dekudeals.com is a labour of love and the best video games deals site that I know of. Focused on Nintendo Switch, written in rails AFAIK.
I use it for ps4/ps5 too!
Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond. My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).
Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.
Yes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#383https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast . I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
Wow! Does anyone know what is built on and how it is this fast?
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#384https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast . I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
That is cool! Anyone know the tech behind it?
They appear to be using the Backbone.js/Marionette framework, which is super hardcore but also dates when this site was probably developed (I can't remember the last time I saw Backbone in the wild!)
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Something about the phrase "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist" smacks of egotism to me, I dunno why but it just seems a turn-off. It feels like saying "I'm just deeply interesting, I can't help it, it's just who I am."
Funny, I feel the same way about your comment.
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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#386The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane. Here are some filters I find interesting to use. You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic... Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation…
Sadly I don't speak German and Google Translate doesn't play well with that site. Know any similar English sites?
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#387The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
Would love to see a USA version of this.
Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane. Here are some filters I find interesting to use. You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic... Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation…
Sadly I don't speak German and Google Translate doesn't play well with that site. Know any similar English sites?
you can change the language to english by clicking the flag in the upper-left corner and selecting `EU`