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Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by jdverni on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:47PM (#1862277)
Shopobot looks sweet
Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by ig1 on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:57PM (#1862314)
Agreed, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to keep at it

I looked at building something similar a while back but found most of the big retailers (Amazon, eBay) prohibited you from storing historical price data. Unless that's changed I'm not sure their approach is going to be feasible in the long term.

Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by alexl on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @05:58PM (#1862557)
That should be easy - store just the graph, not the actual values :)
Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by nostromo on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @05:00PM (#1862325)
Thanks! blush

We put a lot of time into the design. We've held off any sort of "rate my startup" to see if we make it to the next round.

Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by leftnode on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:56PM (#1862310)
Is another similar service - http://camelcamelcamel.com/
Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by alexl on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @05:56PM (#1862551)
I'm afraid I like Shopobot more. Camel is waaaaay too crowded, just like the myriad of other price aggregators. Just too much on the same page.
Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by L1quid on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:41PM (#1883905)
We're about to launch a new design that I hope solves this problem:

New product page: http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/262877/new... http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/262881/new...

Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by accounts on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:28PM (#1887972)
Camel was one of the first for Amazon shopobot just looks to be a copy of the same idea. Look at how much price history camel has. It goes back over 3 years for some stuff.
Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions by jdverni on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:58PM (#1862319)
There always is! LOL