Re:Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions
by jdverni on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:47PM
(#1862277)
Shopobot looks sweet
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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.
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
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Is another similar service - http://camelcamelcamel.com/
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.
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...