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Sadly, it's working so far. Most companies only want a product that works. Best practices, algorithmic efficiency, or taste aren't really on their radar.

I am still checking the post, and I've already added color mode 1-2 days ago.

You can also expect some big changes to the UI very soon

I have another website where I made qualified sales and gained access to their APIs.

The rate limit is a bit low, so I mixed that with scraping too.

Nobody wants to compete. I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else. Of course, to keep it running, I need to make a profit, since the Amazon API alone won't let me discover so many products, and I need to get product info

If users won't find anything useful, I will simply put it offline and run it on demand whenever I need a new drive.

As many users pointed out, neither DiskPrices' idea nor mine is unique; there are many alternatives with different product listings.

It is only a benefit for the users if they have more choice

This is because brands are not 100% transparent on this, they could change how they assemble a specific model based on availability.

Amazon doesn't expose this data

US data should now be refreshed. Prices look much better, but I am still working on product availability. In some cases the API is returning a price and the only way around that is scraping

Cool! I'm happy you've found something working for the Indian marketplaces!

Unfortunately, this is what I sometimes experience, and I am not sure there's much that can be done. I am already trying to filter out outliers, but if a price looks "plausible", this filtering doesn't do much.

Sometimes I get prices for items that are unavailable or completely off (perhaps from a 3rd-party seller?).

I am still working on availability, but prices should look more accurate for US products

I was thinking about including additional stores at some point, but mainly from the EU.

Once Amazon's pricing issues stabilize, I will try including some more sources!

Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India

Even terabytedeals.com does, you have a drawer in the top-right corner!

You are onto something, I am using a mix of scraping and APIs, and the scraped products don't seem to be accurate due to a faulty CSS selector.

I am running the process once again to get some - hopefully - better data!

I tried to have a look, but from my associates central, I cannot enable affiliations on the Indian store, sorry!

Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself

This also looks interesting, thanks!

Many users are pointing out that the concept is very similar.

The product listings are perhaps different?

Yes, I guess I should have done some more due diligence before reinventing the wheel...

Hopefully, I will find some ways to differentiate. Something I don't see there is a filter by brand or a text search across all fields. I was planning to add these in a next iteration

Thanks for your input!

Adding a filter on drive speed is definitely feasible. I will add it as soon as possible

I have another site that made some qualified sales, so I can use the APIs.

I also played a bit with scraping, and you can do that quite easily, but if you want to do it at some scale, you need lots of proxies, and quite soon it gets slow and overkill

Thanks for the input!

As I mentioned to other users, Amazon's pricing seems to be quite dynamic. This data is just 4-5 hours old, but it already seems quite stale.

Note taken that it should be updated more frequently!

Not for this specific use case.

Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?

Thanks for the feedback!

These prices are 5-6 hours old. While working on this site, I noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic.

Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returning the retail price, but because of current availability, once you land on the product page, you are shown prices from a different seller

Oh well... nevertheless, it was a fun project to work on, and it still is!

I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price trends by brand/category)

Thanks for the input!

This should be the price as shown in the product listings for the category. Perhaps, depending on product availability, you are shown different prices on the product page.

I will take a better look into this, but I can confirm that this data is very recent (about 4-5 hours ago), definitely not months old

So they ditches saas by building a saas?

In the past I developed a mobile app that was standalone and users had to pay only once.

Users then started asking extra features and down voted my app when I said I didn't want to implement them.

When the app lost its popularity and was making barely no money, I realized that I was working for free. My user base paid for a product having a well defined set of features and kept asking for more, for free.

Moreover, think about a service that needs to rely on an online backend, for instance to synchronize app data between devices, how are you supposed to do that with a single payment business model?