[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":418},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-5285235":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":92,"maker_in_thread":223,"shape":231,"grid":234,"attempts":376,"same_week":381,"maker_shows":32,"maker_hidden":410,"reader_version":411,"card":412},"5285235","market price","A site that calculates the market price of items on ebay","title","Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.getmarketprice.com\u002F","getmarketprice.com","locksley",1361883262,2013,87,61,275,1739,16,"notable","web_saas","price research for ebay sellers and buyers","web_app",[24,5,25,26],"ebay price checker","ebay completed listings","ebay sold prices","mixed",-0.098,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},7,12,3,9,31,{"execution":36,"idea":39,"design":41},{"positive":37,"critical":38},1,8,{"positive":40,"critical":37},2,{"positive":40,"critical":42},0,[42,32,32,42,44,32,42,42,42,37,44,32,42,32,44,37,32,32,42,44,32,42,32,32,42,32,37,44,37,42,37,37,32,42,37,32,37,42,44,32],5,null,{"problem":47,"audience":54,"pricing":45,"motivation":66,"time_to_build":45,"stack":70,"openness":89,"stage":90,"team_size":91},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Not knowing a fair price for an item sold on eBay","maker",[51],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},"5285240","This was my weekend project. I made it after being frustrated at not knowing what a fair price for an iphone 5 would be on eBay. I posted this a month ago but wasn't ready for HN…",{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"People buying or selling items on eBay","commenter",[58,62],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"5286339","tharshan09","This is a really nice little app. I mean I have only used ebay only a couple of times but this is really nice, and its something I kinda wish I had at the back of my mind when…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"5285443","drd","They are using different sources. This site is using eBay information. Priceonomics is using classified ads, I guess mostly from Craigslist. Actually, the user can benefit from…",{"value":67,"source":49,"evidence":68},"Frustrated at not knowing a fair price for an iPhone 5 on eBay",[69],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[71,80,84],{"value":72,"source":49,"evidence":73},"Ruby on Rails",[74,77],{"id":75,"by":11,"text":76},"5285367","The most useful tip I could give you (if you're building on rails and deploying to heroku) is to use a Unicorn Webserver. It allows your to handle far more concurrent requests.…",{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"5290135","Rails (without ActiveRecord\u002FDatabase) Heroku Unicorn Server",{"value":81,"source":49,"evidence":82},"Heroku",[83],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":85,"source":49,"evidence":86},"Unicorn web server",[87,88],{"id":75,"by":11,"text":76},{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":93,"objections":117,"requests":161,"questions":192,"alternatives":208},[94,106],{"value":95,"source":56,"evidence":96},"Useful and clean tool with helpful charts",[97,98,102],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"5290225","hobs","Do not remove the charts. I love the charts. They are simple and obvious, the only feedback I would give is that I would think (not being a huge ebay person) the current charts…",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"5285319","GotAnyMegadeth","Suggestion: You should be able to exclude certain data items from the calculation, then recalculate (check box for exclude next to the raw data item or something). I just did a…",{"value":107,"source":56,"evidence":108},"Good idea for buyers and sellers",[109,113],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"5285293","h2s","Bug report: choosing US, UK or AUS from the country select dropdown causes the form to submit as if you'd typed in the country code as your search term. This is a really killer…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"5285572","jbrooksuk","Clever idea, it's always time consuming to explain to my father in law that he'd be better off buying something new in the shop or online.",[118,130,142],{"value":119,"source":56,"evidence":120},"Outliers and unrelated items skew results",[121,122,126],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"5285244","nos4A2","Looks awesome! Some outlier elimination would be great (on a search for a graphics card there was skew due to unrelated items)",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"5286131","jherrick","Good list. I would also suggested eliminating outlying items based on prices. It seems like when there are dozens of items named XXX, there will be several with \"hard drive for…",{"value":131,"source":56,"evidence":132},"Country selection does not switch currency or works incorrectly",[133,134,138],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"5285354","makethetick","Looks great and could be a very handy tool but I would of expected prices to show up in £ rather than $ when selecting UK.",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"5285372","joshcrowder","This is great, very impressive. When searching for an item in the UK the price still shows in dollars.",{"value":143,"source":56,"evidence":144},"Searches with special characters or season numbers break",[145,149,153,157],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"5286223","regularfry","The search term \"win&win riser\" breaks it. Looks like you're not url-escaping the search term? EDIT - also it looks like you're submitting it to ebay badly, the results for…",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"5286454","therobot24","seems to break when i put in a specific season, ex: - \"dexter season 6\" returns only listings where season 1-6 are sold setting an average price at ~$140 - \"simpsons season 9\"…",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"5285738","xanmas","I tried to search for a speedmaster 3510.50 and it cut off everything after the period. Regex issue?",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"5285949","ericcholis","Small bug, searching for \"2012\u002F13 Panini Elite Basketball Hobby Box\" confuses your URL pattern, only searching for \"2012\"",[162,169,178,185],{"value":163,"source":56,"evidence":164},"Filter results by condition",[165],{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"5286477","xur17","Is there any way to search for a certain condition only? When I search for the iPhone for example, it returns a huge range of prices that include ones that were used and…",{"value":170,"source":49,"evidence":171},"Price filter slider on results",[172,175],{"id":173,"by":11,"text":174},"5290052","That's a good idea. I'm planning to build a pricing filter slider on the results page because it seems most people have a rough idea how much an item is worth. Your problem was…",{"id":176,"by":11,"text":177},"5290089","Hmmm, this is difficult to fix because it relies on Ebay's search engine. The only solution I could think of is to add a 'price filter slider' on the results page. This way, you…",{"value":179,"source":56,"evidence":180},"Fees-adjusted net sale price",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"5285894","lilfeetpete","Great job, in addition to the comments already made I think it would be more useful if it said what you would make from a sale after ebay and paypal take their cut from the sale.",{"value":186,"source":56,"evidence":187},"Price history over time graph",[188],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"5285461","nawitus","Nice site, but I would like a third graph which shows (e.g.) the average price (for the day) in the y-axis and days in x-axis, so you can estimate how the price has developed…",[193,197],{"value":194,"source":56,"evidence":195},"How the data is gathered",[196],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":198,"source":56,"evidence":199},"Whether it complies with eBay terms",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"5286162","radiospiel","Just curious: this is not in line w\u002Febay's T&C, or is it? Quite impressive, anyways.",{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"5286447","fishpi","When I looked at doing the same thing a few years ago, I found it was explicitly ruled out in the conditions attached to the eBay API. There may be a way to get by under the…",[209,216],{"value":210,"source":56,"evidence":211},"TerraPeak",[212],{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"5286164","jcampbell1","Are you familiar with TerraPeak? It is a company that provides access to all completed ebay sales. It is a SaaS product and sells for like $20-$50\u002Fmonth. I gather their annual…",{"value":217,"source":56,"evidence":218},"Priceonomics",[219],{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"5285297","espadagroup","Why not try priceonomics they're pretty good for that. With that said nice app!",{"comments":224,"answered":30,"key":225},24,[226,227,228],{"id":52,"text":53},{"id":75,"text":76},{"id":229,"text":230},"5290000","Thanks! 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