Show HN: A simple automated list of gadget deals with affiliate links (justbuythe.com)

Searching for deals on tech stuff isn't so fun. Some sites are heavy on SEO chum and posting as many keyword-laden headlines as possible. Aggregator sites are flooded with whatever products the retailer APIs and feeds push out. I got fed up with all this while shopping online last weekend, so set about making what I'd hoped to find in the first place: a basic, somewhat-automated list of deals

It's perfectly boring HTML with automatic price checks. There's no ads, no cookies, no signups, no writing for machines. The idea is to strike a balance between completeness and simplicity, so people can pick a decent deal without ado whenever they need one. The latest prices are fetched from Amazon, and links to the Wayback Machine are included so users can check for deceptive "yo-yo" deals.

Another minimalist project of mine, txt.fyi, benefited hugely from feedback here way back when.

I suppose the obvious shortcomings are:

• further refinement might inevitably drag it toward more content (risk competing with news media) or more automation (risk becoming a junk aggregator)

• It's limited to stuff in my interests (gadgets!) that I feel confident making snap judgments on whether the brand is good and the deal is worth it.

• Reviewing all the deals every day could become gruelling work. Detecting good deals automatically really seems called for, but ingesting inappropriate or low-quality ones would only create the same problems of trust and frustration that inspired the project in the first place.