It's certainly in the list of things to add, but I'm not confident enough in my backend code to add more complexity just yet. FiveStar will be undergoing a rewrite in August, so I could definitely add it then. Thanks for the feedback!
I don't know if you'll see this, as the thread is pretty old now.
You've at least 3 comments in this thread asking for the same thing. There's an enthusiasm about your product right now. That could be long gone by August.
If I were you, I'd find a way to implement the features being most often requested, sooner rather than later.
Apologies for my tone. I just really like the product and would like to see it succeed (and, yes, be more useful to me personally).
Any chance you could make an option to choose which amazon to search (amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.de), I figure the API's will be the same anyway?
Post the ratings. Post the ratings ratios (4-5 vs 1). Post the top 5 per budget. Grab user photos/videos and let the user click through them on the product image. Interface with the amazon API for pricing trends (like camelcamelcamel).
Is this really the top comment on this thread? And I thought HN had come so far.
This is an amazing website! Kudos to the creator(s).
It's exactly the way I wish I could browse Amazon, and since it's currently swallowing the HN firehose, I'm impressed that it's up and working. Given that it's so useful I will actually use it for shopping from now on, I feel like we can definitely cut it some slack on its day-one execution.
Some or all of the item prices seem to be based on the lowest "Used" price. This is not always ideal -- I am not about to buy a bookcase normally around $50 from the one seller that has it at $12. Being able to exclude used prices would be great.
Amazon does, but I find their results rather wonky at times. Filtering by rating works fine, but sorting on price seems to rarely work right -- they are often way out of order. Also filtering on price doesn't seem to work very well either.
On this, I would guess the price range categorization makes that more absolute. I would play with it more but I don't really have time right now.
I searched for "waffle iron" and "tennis racket" and thought the results were pretty spiffy looking.
But I'm a little unclear on the use case for this site. Say I want to buy a waffle iron, so I search for that term and get a list of results. How do I know which one to pick? If
a) I had a hard maximum budget
b) I wanted to get the absolute best product possible in this budget (rather than say best value possible subject to price within budget)
c) When x < y, the best product at $x is always inferior to the best product at $y
then I could just look for the price category just below my budget and pick one of the items there. But none of these assumptions are guaranteed to hold; in fact, in my experience generally all three do not.
Very nice way to make some side cash by using amazon affiliate network. Just make sure you are following their rules to a T so you do not get the hammer and actually get paid.
I like the clean look and the blue load bar. I also like the results.
FYI, your URLs seem to be encoded incorrectly (perhaps missing a decodeURIComponent somewhere, or incorrectly calling encodeURIComponent). Are you sure Amazon pays when it's in that format?
I strongly prefer to purchase items that are either sold directly from Amazon or "Fulfilled by Amazon" items if at all possible. Part of the reason is that it seems like my name and address (and possibly other account information) would be sent to the seller when ordering by other methods, I'd like to limit this as much as possible.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 107 ms ] threadI'll also scale the heroku dynos if it goes down again.
You've at least 3 comments in this thread asking for the same thing. There's an enthusiasm about your product right now. That could be long gone by August.
If I were you, I'd find a way to implement the features being most often requested, sooner rather than later.
Apologies for my tone. I just really like the product and would like to see it succeed (and, yes, be more useful to me personally).
Post the ratings. Post the ratings ratios (4-5 vs 1). Post the top 5 per budget. Grab user photos/videos and let the user click through them on the product image. Interface with the amazon API for pricing trends (like camelcamelcamel).
You could scrape the ratings. But being on Amazon's naughty list is a bad idea for any affiliate.
This is an amazing website! Kudos to the creator(s).
It's exactly the way I wish I could browse Amazon, and since it's currently swallowing the HN firehose, I'm impressed that it's up and working. Given that it's so useful I will actually use it for shopping from now on, I feel like we can definitely cut it some slack on its day-one execution.
I don't understand what that means. The back button issue is a serious glitch, hence the upvotes.
Otherwise great UI and idea.
I get "Well, this is taking longer than usual...". Nothing loads.
On this, I would guess the price range categorization makes that more absolute. I would play with it more but I don't really have time right now.
But I'm a little unclear on the use case for this site. Say I want to buy a waffle iron, so I search for that term and get a list of results. How do I know which one to pick? If
a) I had a hard maximum budget b) I wanted to get the absolute best product possible in this budget (rather than say best value possible subject to price within budget) c) When x < y, the best product at $x is always inferior to the best product at $y
then I could just look for the price category just below my budget and pick one of the items there. But none of these assumptions are guaranteed to hold; in fact, in my experience generally all three do not.
I like the clean look and the blue load bar. I also like the results.
I strongly prefer to purchase items that are either sold directly from Amazon or "Fulfilled by Amazon" items if at all possible. Part of the reason is that it seems like my name and address (and possibly other account information) would be sent to the seller when ordering by other methods, I'd like to limit this as much as possible.
Thanks for checking it out!