nice, great idea. Will you be adding different Amazons, I live in the UK and products differ/may not be available here.
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#12nice, great idea. Will you be adding different Amazons, I live in the UK and products differ/may not be available here.
It's certainly in the list of things to add, but I'm not confident enough in my backend code to add more complexity just yet. FiveStar will be undergoing a rewrite in August, so I could definitely add it then. Thanks for the feedback!
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#13Any chance you could make an option to choose which amazon to search (amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.de), I figure the API's will be the same anyway?
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#14This post got a lot of flags. Is that because the site was down? It's back up now, so I turned off the flags.
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#15A few ideas;
Post the ratings. Post the ratings ratios (4-5 vs 1). Post the top 5 per budget. Grab user photos/videos and let the user click through them on the product image. Interface with the amazon API for pricing trends (like camelcamelcamel).
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#16Each key press adds to the push state history. Spams the back button
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#17Some or all of the item prices seem to be based on the lowest "Used" price. This is not always ideal -- I am not about to buy a bookcase normally around $50 from the one seller that has it at $12. Being able to exclude used prices would be great.
Otherwise great UI and idea.
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#18Nice idea.
I get "Well, this is taking longer than usual...". Nothing loads.
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#19I dont get it... doesn't amazon already have searching by price/rating?
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#20I searched for "waffle iron" and "tennis racket" and thought the results were pretty spiffy looking.
But I'm a little unclear on the use case for this site. Say I want to buy a waffle iron, so I search for that term and get a list of results. How do I know which one to pick? If
a) I had a hard maximum budget b) I wanted to get the absolute best product possible in this budget (rather than say best value possible subject to price within budget) c) When x then I could just look for the price category just below my budget and pick one of the items there. But none of these assumptions are guaranteed to hold; in fact, in my experience generally all three do not.