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Show HN: An interactive comparison chart of the 300 most popular tablets
- no_gravity 12y agoThe first new product category since I renamed the project to Product Chart a month ago. With Smartphones, Laptops and Tablets, I now have the main mobile computing devices covered. If there are additional parameters you want to see incorporated, let me know and I will add them on to the chart.
- sitkack 12y agoThis is excellent. How do you get data into the system? Scrape amazon? I did a PoC correlating data between the manufacturer's site and amazon, messy business.
- no_gravity 12y agoWhen I started out with the simple items like flashdrives, I experimented with automated import via the Amazon API. But meanwhile I switched to a completely manual process. Everything has to be checked and proofread anyhow. So it makes the process simpler to keep out the automation completely. "PoC"?
- sitkack 12y agoProof of Concept. You are on to something with the display/search. Maybe sell to newegg? I think a valuable approach would be semi-automated import of data from various sites (write some adapters) and then have a manual check/proof stage before it makes it into the live system. One thing I noticed, is that some stuff is refurb or on the end of the product cycle where the value gets a whole lot better. It would be cool to know what the price of an item over time is and how likely it is to be discontinued [0] . Like the refurb samsung tablets or the lenovo [1] ones. The next step is to scrape reviews (forum posts xda, amazon, newegg, etc) of each item and roll them up into something meaningful using sentiment analysis. [0] guess they are broken now http://camelegg.com/products?pc=Tablet+PC+-+Tablets http://camelegg.com/products?pc=Tablet+PC+-+Tablets [1] Might add, http://outlet.lenovo.com/outlet_us/ http://outlet.lenovo.com/outlet_us/