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Ask HN: Review my web app (steamgamedeal.appspot.com)
- gamedeal 18y agoFor those unfamiliar, Steam has a growing number of game packages, each containing a number of games, at reduced total cost. If you want to buy a certain set of games, this app helps you find the cheapest way of buying packages that contain all of the games you wanted.
- abyssknight 18y agoVery cool concept! Are you screen scraping for data or is there an API of some sort?
- gamedeal 18y agoThanks :) Steam doesn't provide a public API for this stuff (or at least i didn't find one) and as far as I know the Steam client doesn't even know about packages and stuff like that so there is no other way of extracting the data. As a side note, there are at least 5 game pages with invalid HTML that caused problems :)
- mncaudill 18y agoCool concept. The animations are well done and not too over the top. Couple of suggestions for you: 1) I don't think the ability to switch style themes is important at all. It really doesn't have anything to do with the core of what you are trying to accomplish and for that reason alone, I'd vote scrapping it. 2) The highlight for the search dropdown is very faint. I'd recommend adding a bit more contrast to this. Keep up the good work!
- jerryji 18y agoEven though it might not be considered production yet, I'd recommend any public site to at least turn off debug setting (and better add a catch-all route).
- gamedeal 18y agoOups, forgot to change the settings back.
- patio11 18y agoPlease pre-populate with suggested sample searches and include a list of your top 5 recommendations. (I would snatch one in a heartbeat but I'm very intensely lazy.)