Excellent, would it be possible to make it regional?
Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#92I love projects like this! Great idea and motivation.
I wanted to give a heads up that when I search for “Python for data analytics”, I get this awesome book “The Storm of Bringer by Isabel Cooper”. I know you are still working on the site, so it was a good giggle, put a smile on my face. You gotta see it for yourself, contextual a warrior repping python.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#93it should have probably also found ISBN numbers as when i did a search for Achtung Panzer i had all language versions and releases mixed in results. So it might be fine for books with single release but books that have multiple release and versions and on top of that pictures can be less fun to check :) Maybe You should also cache results for like a 1-3 days or something.
Great suggestions thanks. I'm working on a fix for ISBN numbers that will be up within a day. Caching is not something I've started on yet but it's a great idea I'll start looking into it shortly.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#94Excellent, would it be possible to make it regional?
Yes certainly, at the moment it's only optimized for the USA but I'm working on adding several other regions as we speak. The issue is I have to do it individually region by region which makes it quite slow. I should have 3 or 4 more regions up before the end of the week and I'll add a couple more on a weekly basis.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#95$100 ??
its $30 in Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#96$100 ?? its $30 in Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
The $100 options on the bottom of the page are actually a bug, sorry about that I'll set up the system to ignore them. The page is sorted by price though so if you look at the top of the page you should be able to see much cheaper options.
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#97$100 ?? its $30 in Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
try inputting the full search term - "staff engineer: Leadership beyond the management track" the search can get a little buggy without it
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#98It seemed to fail my first test.
I used pagesonpages.com search for "rust", clicked on a search hit (Blandy, et al., Programming Rust, 2e) showing price of $50.84, which loaded the product page on bookdepository.com, showing paperback for $50.84.
Then I separately searched on the Amazon site, and they showed paperback for $32.49 (shipped&sold by Amazon).
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#99Is "cheapest" the right objective? Because if that's the case, book piracy seems like the clear winner. But maybe we should consider "cheapest with some boundaries". For instance, we probably agree that bookstores are nice for a myriad of reasons, even if we don't frequent them. They employ people in the area, they offer curation and recommendations, they invite speakers and host events, and they help local authors g…
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#100I love projects like this! Great idea and motivation. I wanted to give a heads up that when I search for “Python for data analytics”, I get this awesome book “The Storm of Bringer by Isabel Cooper”. I know you are still working on the site, so it was a good giggle, put a smile on my face. You gotta see it for yourself, contextual a warrior repping python.
ahaha it seems to be linking through to a booksite where the title of the book is "python 3 and data analytics" but the book image is The Storm of Bringer. Brilliant spot.