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by Shrugs 12y ago
Awesome, glad you like it!
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by Shrugs 12y ago
I made FiveStar [0], which was covered on TechCrunch [1] and it made ~$600 last month. Doesn't cost any money to run, so it just sits there. Not a fabulous success story, and traffic is decreasing, but $10 a day as passive income isn&#
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by Shrugs 12y ago
I've fixed this with a decent debounce delay. I failed to test the back button, hence the poor UX. Thanks for checkout it out!
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by Shrugs 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out; I can't imagine they do. I've fixed the issue, thanks again!
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by Shrugs 12y ago
You don't have to manually parse ratings and reviews. It just removes a few steps from the "I want an item, which one do I get" flow. Thanks for checking it out!
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by Shrugs 12y ago
I've added a debounce to that portion; sorry for the poor UX!
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by Shrugs 12y ago
It's certainly in the list of things to add, but I'm not confident enough in my backend code to add more complexity just yet. FiveStar will be undergoing a rewrite in August, so I could definitely add it then. Thanks for the feedb
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by Shrugs 12y ago
OP here: I switched the debounce to 1 second instead of 500ms, so that should fix a bit of the load problems. I'll also scale the heroku dynos if it goes down again.
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Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget(fivestar.io)
75 points by Shrugs 12y ago|46 comments
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by Shrugs 12y ago
I made a similar product (albeit a lot less refined) for a hackathon, using the Pebble. It counted number and type of tennis shots, displayed useful HUD data, and then let you see pretty graphs in a desktop webapp. Some problems I ran into:
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by Shrugs 13y ago
http://imgur.com/U60b29g.png In my spare time, I'm working on http://fivestar.io , which gives you the best Amazon item for a query and breaks it down by price range. So you can find the 'best' pro
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by Shrugs 14y ago
The Wixel seems to be similar, but with built in wireless. http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1336