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The creator did an AMA on Reddit last year. Basically the site originally showed price history of other sites like Newegg but Amazon told the author they'd let
by maxyme 8y ago
The creator did an AMA on Reddit last year. Basically the site originally showed price history of other sites like Newegg but Amazon told the author they'd let him continue to get pricing info only if he removed the other sites and made it exclusively for Amazon, and he did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5xuniu/im_the_founder_of_camelcamelcamel_ama https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5xuniu/im_the_founder...
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoI can't tell, but I think that's actually shittier than just trying to shut down his extension.
- tolth 8y agoAlso, Amazon's retail teams rely on CCC because it's more accurate than their own tools.
- lgregg 8y agoYou would think with internal data that internal tools would be better, but time and time again they're not.
- antsar 8y agoCan anyone elaborate on this? I assume Amazon could trivially build an internal CCC, and I'm at a loss how their internal tools would be less accurate than a 3rd-party scraper...
- tolth 8y agoAnyone who could elaborate is NDA'd. In general, though, Amazon is always kind of starved for engineering resources. It sucks so much to work at in so many of its teams that it has a colossal retention problem and, one would expect, the corresponding level of technical debt.
- woolvalley 8y agoMaybe if they made being an engineer there a winning proposition... They could start with the vesting schedule for one. Maybe have competitive salaries with FB & Google?
- tolth 8y agoI genuinely do not understand why they don't do this. Bezos either has some sort of master plan relating to a high-turnover staff model or is delusional about the true culture underneath him. I don't know which.
- felix_nagaand 8y agoTrump's using the same model fwiw.
- LeifCarrotson 8y agoSo that's why I can no longer use Camelegg. I understand why the author would cave to Amazon, but not why that would fail to cause competitor dedicated only to Newegg to pop up.
- gonesilent 8y agocamelegg was shut down by newegg, not by amazon.