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I'd expect a "Show HN" post to at least explain a bit how they built it (or even better link to some browsable source repo if it's open source). Apart from the
by cies 3y ago
I'd expect a "Show HN" post to at least explain a bit how they built it (or even better link to some browsable source repo if it's open source).
Apart from the nit-pick: nice work! I had a look at the source, proper minimalism right there (and a stray html tag), just loads the page containing all data/JS/CSS and a favicon.
- generalizations 3y agoI mean, that's fair. A decent chunk of the backend effort was figuring out how to scrape amazon without setting off their bot detection; I'd rather not tell them how I did that. The rest is an unholy collection of bash, python and TCL scripts assembling raw html - not surprised there's a stray html tag. Ha. I forget who said it first, but the Linux OS really is the ideal environment for async operations. I just have some shell scripts running in their own while loops, downloading, parsing, building and uploading. Thanks! :D