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Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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for price changes i use camelcamelcamel.com, it works like swiss clockwork

This works only for Amazon. Our app is generic

I think the point is 'works like clockwork'. And as the other user said, I'm not prepared to test out your service if you require a registration and sign in before I can see anything about it.

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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I'm the founder of http://pricify.com and we've had several iterations of the product and focusing on various experiments. Currently we land users on a landing page and thats a test we've been running for a while, but we've also had it where products are listed upfront with infinite scroll. Both seem to achieve hit different goals.

We've spent a long time establishing landing page messages so it makes sense to users as soon as they get there - otherwise they just bounce, including HN users! I've not signed up to try this out, but there is just not enough info before asking a visitor to sign up. So may want to add some info there on the value prop?

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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my 2 cents from a quick glance: don't require users to login to use the site, let them at least search or find products.

I can't send price changes alerts if I don't have user email

Which online stores? All of them?

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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post #10

for price changes i use camelcamelcamel.com, it works like swiss clockwork

This works only for Amazon. Our app is generic

There is also http://camelegg.com for Newegg

Those 2 sites are probably the most I purchase from, however generic is nice for the other non-popular stuff!

Another cool addon is Hoverhound: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newzon/ I can see how low it has ever been vs just a price drop, and it prevents me from buying on newegg when it sees a lower price on amazon

Re: Show HN: An app that alerts you when your favourite product has a price change

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I'm the founder of http://pricify.com and we've had several iterations of the product and focusing on various experiments. Currently we land users on a landing page and thats a test we've been running for a while, but we've also had it where products are listed upfront with infinite scroll. Both seem to achieve hit different goals. We've spent a long time establishing landing page messages so it makes sense to users…

Thanks, now we have a print screen on the first page (quick version).
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