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Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
- JadeNB 7y agoI'm not normally one to carp about product names—there was a semi-jokey discussion about calling a shared-viewing product 'Covideo' that bothered some people, but I didn't think it was such a big deal—but surely we can do better than this? Oh, well. As always with open source, it's my place to be grateful for the work you share (thank you!), not to complain about your not doing it on my terms.
- vortico 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv2dIM3t9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv2dIM3t9I
- p1necone 7y agoThis isn't a product, this is someones spare time non commercial open source project that they're sharing for other developers to use. If the name bothers you just clone the repo and change it.
- JadeNB 7y agoThat's a fair point. I did say it's my place to be grateful, not to carp (but I did also carp).
- owl57 7y agoYes, but why couldn't it also be a product name. For example, an express delivery service focused on people who are willing to pay a premium to get TP within an hour. Now, writing this comment had me finally realize that TP, however we mock the hoarders, really is almost unique in its urgency for most people. If you run out of food, you probably have a few hours before you get hungry again. Running out of TP is acutely uncomfortable right from that minute.
- richrichardsson 7y agoUnless you have no access to soap and running water (with the latter causing quite an issue by itself with respect to bowel evacuation), why would it be a problem? I struggle to understand why so many people have an issue with washing their own bunghole. Avoid visiting India (and many other countries that practice increased cleanliness) if that idea is abhorrent.
- owl57 7y agoBTW, soap is exactly what I meant by "almost" unique. You mean, a bidet? Long-term, seems like an interesting idea. Short-term, filling a cart with TP during an unavoidable (because of food delivery collapse) visit to the store seems like a less dangerous idea than inviting a plumber.
- brailsafe 7y agoI dare you to come up with a better name. This is great.
- khazhoux 7y agoIt's not great. It's perfect.
- kangaroozach 7y agoIndeed
- draw_down 7y agoCome on
- donarb 7y agoA sure way to guarantee that Apple won't buy your startup.
- elevenoh 7y agoWhy not? Isn't it in fashion to not take yourself too seriously these days?
- sneak 7y agoThe streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelievers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7NE_jSk5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7NE_jSk5w
- klyrs 7y agoThis is a generational thing. Just as my mom won't expect me to understand "where's the beef?", I don't expect her or my students to understand this reference. But for my generation, a more perfect name has never been devised.
- kangaroozach 7y agoCorrect
- MisterTea 7y agoMan, who whacked off in your toolshed... so salty.
- richwellman20 7y agoBest program name ever. We can all use some Beavis humor these days.
- atonse 7y agoTotally agree. I had quite a chuckle!
- sk5t 7y agoIt took a moment to get the zeitgeist connection--one of Cornholio's few intelligible phrases is "I need TP for my bunghole." Wikipedia used to host a comically erudite page about Cornholio, e.g. studiously noting such discrepancies in his speech such as "my people have no bunghole" / "my people have but one bunghole".
- sweetgiorni 7y agoCouldn't find exactly what you mentioned, but this is still a terrific read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis
- sjs382 7y agoI was able to track down the most recent version, before the articles got merged: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Cornholio&oldid=306489241 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Cornholio&o...
- circa 7y agoI already cannot wait for v2.0 - The Great Cornholio!
- stevespang 7y agoWasn't it BROOMholio on B & B program ?
- sam1r 7y agoI wish i saw more of these one-off creative creations on a regular basis. Is there a reason why this is not a "Show:hn"?
- dang 7y agoI've added it to the title.
- impostervt 7y agoThanks!
- conroydave 7y agoi need this except for delivery windows on wholefoods and amazon fresh
- lgats 7y agosecond
- libraryatnight 7y agoseriously, I see prime now deliveries getting to my neighbors, how are they getting a delivery window? I haven't seen one in two weeks. I don't even really need it anymore, my wife and I just check for fun.
- mkoryak 7y agoTry again at exactly 1:01am eastern and refresh every 5 minutes or less. It works for me.
- ErikAugust 7y agoHa, I was thinking about building this. I was able to get an order in through periodic refreshing of the delivery time selection page.
- sneak 7y agoInstacart and Postmates still seem to work, I'm told. (I won't outsource mortal danger to someone poorer than I simply because they need the money more, and I don't want to give Instacart any of my business since they got busted stealing their delivery staff's tips, but those are your options if you want them.)
- bradknowles 7y agoInstaCart deliveries are pushed out to the one week limit, and that’s assuming you can get anything at all. Deliveries from all sources are getting hard to come by.
- protean 7y ago
- staticautomatic 7y agoAre you the owner of bunghol.io?
- kangaroozach 7y agoLol
- richrichardsson 7y agoSo disappointed there was no content at that domain.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoThe Amazon app lets me register for push messages when products become available. Why wouldn't I just use that?
- artificial 7y agoWell, this way it can be recreated in another language, for shakes 8ball fun!
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- DeathArrow 7y agoDoes it use an API or it scrapes the Amazon website? If it's the latter how do you avoid being blocked?
- jspash 7y agoI'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages for this type of thing? I suppose I still don't see it outside of the browser environment but maybe it's time to change that view.
- arrmn 7y agoNearly all public repos of the devloper are using mainly JS, so I assume he's a JS dev and thus just uses the tools he knows the best.
- jdellinger 7y agoWhile I generally agree that you should use the best tool for the job, for small and simple scripts I see nothing wrong with picking a language your comfortable with. I wonder, why do you think python is a better alternative? I would understand bash since it is dependency free, but I don't see any advantage for python vs. nodejs
- tasubotadas 7y agoPython has Standard Library while NodeJS does not.
- owl57 7y agoHow? Both Python and Node have some https client in their standard libraries, and both have headless Chrome drivers (what this script uses) in easily installed third-party libraries.
- sneak 7y agoThere are many programmers working today who only know Javascript. I can’t speak to whether that’s the situation with OP or not, but it is common to see tools that I personally would write in Python being written today in JS, even sometimes by experienced polyglot programmers. I don’t know about “most”, but it is quite common. It surprised me a bit too, the first time I encountered it. I don’t think it has much to do with “liked” or “best tool for the job” as much as it is simply “prevalent” or “popular”.
- doggodad 7y agoObligatory: Shut-up, Beavis.
- spiritplumber 7y agoTruly we needed this in these times of TP shortage.
- brianpursley 7y agoThis reminds me of a little Visual Basic program I hacked together about 20 years ago when I wanted to buy a PlayStation 2 but there was a shortage after it launched. Every 5 minutes, my program would make a request to the product page on Amazon and look for the text "out of stock". If it didn't find it, the program would sound off an alarm bell. I still remember sitting nearby, watching TV one night when the alarm went off. I jumped up and ran over to my computer and bought myself a PS2. As silly as it sounds, what I remember most fondly about the PlayStation 2 was making and using this little program to help buy it.