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Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by MrAlmostWrong »

"You can use either your PayPal account or your credit card to make your payment. All payments are handled through PayPal and are completely secure."

Very curious to know why you would choose PayPal as your payment processor considering the alternatives out there.

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by netvarun »

MrAlmostWrong wrote: post #21

"You can use either your PayPal account or your credit card to make your payment. All payments are handled through PayPal and are completely secure." Very curious to know why you would choose PayPal as your payment processor considering the alternatives out there.

We were originally based out of Singapore and Paypal was the best option we had. If we had the option of Stripe then, we certainly would have gone with them :)

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by hayksaakian »

govind201 wrote: post #16
hayksaakian wrote: post #14

how does this do books? If I provide a random book barcode, it's usually an ISBN (10 or 13 digits)

We don't have books yet. That's been a common request, so we'll be launching with books by the end of the month. If you'd like, I can notify you as soon as we do.

sure, my email is hayk.saakian@

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by netvarun »

blart wrote: post #10

I have done some scraping of the amazon.com previously, but they are pretty good at detecting bot's and shutting them down, how did you get around this problem when scraping millions of pages?

Some great advice here on crawling at scale, which has inspired our crawlers a lot : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367933

Basically it boils down to three things: 1. If the site is slow,crawl slooowly. 2. If you see non-200 http error codes, stop! 3. Obey robots.txt and speed restrictions.

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by MrAlmostWrong »

netvarun wrote: post #22
MrAlmostWrong wrote: post #21

"You can use either your PayPal account or your credit card to make your payment. All payments are handled through PayPal and are completely secure." Very curious to know why you would choose PayPal as your payment processor considering the alternatives out there.

We were originally based out of Singapore and Paypal was the best option we had. If we had the option of Stripe then, we certainly would have gone with them :)

Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by chromedude »

govind201 wrote: post #16
hayksaakian wrote: post #14

how does this do books? If I provide a random book barcode, it's usually an ISBN (10 or 13 digits)

We don't have books yet. That's been a common request, so we'll be launching with books by the end of the month. If you'd like, I can notify you as soon as we do.

Books would be great - could you notify me too? srmorrisonjit at google's email

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by govind201 »

chromedude wrote: post #26
govind201 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't have books yet. That's been a common request, so we'll be launching with books by the end of the month. If you'd like, I can notify you as soon as we do.

Books would be great - could you notify me too? srmorrisonjit at google's email

I sure will!

Re: Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices

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Post by netvarun »

duqee wrote: post #29

I really like this product and would like to use it in the UK can pricing be set to GBP? Or is it just USD pricing?

As of now we are only indexing US prices - but we plan to expand out to the UK and Germany next. Drop me a note at varun semantics3.com, I would love to chat with you!
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