Price Miner
Consumer and social
price tracking
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 15 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.36.
Idea: 2 for, 8 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice, simple idea, well executed
From 1 comment
Nice and simple idea, pretty well executed with not many bells and whistles. I like it. :)
klausjensen on HN
Objections
Likely illegal under US law (CFAA, copyright, ToS) because it scrapes sites
From 2 comments
This is probably illegal in the United States. Expect to receive cease and desist demands.
cookiecaper on HNThe CFAA, which states "exceeding authorized access" to a computer system is both a crime and a tort, and the Copyright Act, which has been interpreted to mean that copies of…
cookiecaper on HN
Price detection gives wrong prices on some pages
From 2 comments
Is this market specific? I tried this product [0] and it tells me the product has a price of 32 rather tahn 13,999/-. [0]…
denzil_correa on HNI just tried this link and it gave me a price of 154:…
xexers on HN
Sites can easily block it
From 1 comment
These can be shutdown very easily by the sites if they want to.
kkotak on HN
Server errors and overload under HN traffic
From 3 comments
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.
pravda on HNYou might want to update your version of Nginx and add some caching I am getting a 504 nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
tmaly on HNGives a server error when clicking go and no link is entered
rgx10 on HN
Requests
Add example links or a clickable grid of popular products
From 1 comment
Provide a link or two as examples so people can quickly try it out. Make it clickable rather than something they have to copy and paste. Maybe have a grid of popular products for…
prawn on HN
Support local store prices, not only online
From 1 comment
I'd suggest a more descriptive title here. From the title, I thought/hoped it would give me price info for local stores, not just online. One of my constant annoyances is the…
mikeash on HN
Offer a browser extension
From 1 comment
Couldn't this work as a browser extension instead?
mtgx on HN
Fix currency handling for non-USD prices
From 1 comment
Why the currency isn't specified? I'm looking for an item on Amazon France and the price should be dispayed in euros, not in USD.
vjandrea on HN
Questions
How does the price detection work?
From 2 comments
What makes it unique? Since this is HN a few more details would be appreciated.
ajmurmann on HNI too am curious, price detection is a very well trodden area. I've seen page structure analysis, manually Xpath/CSS selector writing, machine learning, pattern matching,…
throwaway2016a on HN
How is it different from pricep.in?
From 1 comment
How it is different than pricep.in ?
forvelin on HN
Alternatives named
pricep.in
From 2 comments
Alternative: https://pricep.in/
Egidius on HNHow it is different than pricep.in ?
forvelin on HN
camelcamelcamel
From 1 comment
So, it's like camelcamelcamel, but for more sites?
irrational on HN
diffbot
From 1 comment
Here's an alternative for heuristic extraction which appears to handle more complex data: https://www.diffbot.com/
zlagen on HN
pricehare.com
From 1 comment
Alternative for the UK http://pricehare.com
dtsn on HN
import.io
From 1 comment
What about import.io?
adibalcan on HN