Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon

This is a really cool idea - and it shouldn't be too hard to get it to talk to recommendations, personalisation & wishlist if those APIs still accessible as a web service? However, I haven't used the E-commerce service for a long time and I think it might have been turned off or replaced with something more advertising-oriented.

Re: Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon

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Post by ErikAugust » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

I hope the bot buys an ebook about horses.

Re: Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon

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Post by qbrass » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

Reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/576/

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Post by citricsquid » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:24 PM UTC

This was done a few years back as the result of an XKCD, the original article is gone, but there's a few articles about it: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/09/xkcd-packages... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20022153-1.html it's a cool idea.

Not sure if I'm imagining it, but I think that someone built this into a web service that you could subscribe to and it would buy things for you every day. Does anyone remember this? I can't find anything via HN search, but I'm sure it was a show HN at some point.

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Post by viseztrance » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:24 PM UTC

I normally don't like when someone posts an xkcd link, but this was the first thing that came in my mind http://xkcd.com/576/

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Post by Zolomon » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:25 PM UTC

Being a native Swede very much into electronic music I was very interested in learning about Ákos Rózmann! He was a complete stranger to me until now. Thank you very much.

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