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Review my project, Deal Deal Deal

• yayitswei 16y ago
  My friend and I wrote this app that crawls for deals (from slickdeals.net, dealnews.com, etc) and presents them in a simple way. You can also subscribe to particular categories and receive mobile notifications when new deals are available. Please take a look at it and tell me what you think? The crawler is written in Clojure and the backend is Rails on Heroku.
  • maxawaytoolong 16y ago
    Have you found that it is worth learning Clojure in order to write a crawler? I am doing a side project which requires a crawler and I've tried to figure out if this is a good application of Clojure... or if I should just do a bunch of Perl scripts...
    • yayitswei 16y ago
      It definitely took me longer than it would have had I just written the crawler in Ruby, but I'm enjoying learning Clojure (and thinking in Lisp), and it's becoming my new favorite language. I'd say go for it! The XML processing is really mature, and I used cgrand's enlive for scraping.
• henryalee 16y ago
  looks cool. how did you implement the mobile notifications? sms or iphone/android push notifications?
  • yayitswei 16y ago
    Currently it only supports Android phones using Google's C2DM framework, but iPhone push is a possibility if there's interest.