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I use this for managing products for my very small web store. I scrape my vendors' websites and dump it into rec files. It is then super easy to version and co
by l72 4y ago
I use this for managing products for my very small web store. I scrape my vendors' websites and dump it into rec files.
It is then super easy to version and compare differences. I am typically interested in new products and price changes for existing products so I can see what I want to purchase from my vendors. Having a weekly snapshot of this that I can go back in time through and visualize is really useful.
Being able to quickly edit rec files in emails and run queries on the command line is great.
I suppose if I was dealing with 100k+ products, I'd use a real database, but for the volume I am dealing with, it works really well.