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by zapstar 5y ago
So how did he negotiate for the $125,000? I was expecting a play-by-play. Instead, this is largely advice for how to get vendors to lower their prices.
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by zapstar 5y ago
This reminds me of when I joined a company that used Dropbox for deployments. Install and configure Dropbox on each server, drop your updated files into Dropbox on your local computer, and boom — deployed. (Sometimes.)
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by zapstar 5y ago
Does this discourage attendees from reading/thinking about the topic ahead of time? If you’re the presenter or organizer, you’ve put all of this energy into a document. You’ve thought about it for days or weeks or months. And now meeti
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by zapstar 5y ago
I have done something similar to this to implement queues in Postgres. And at quite a large scale with lots of workers all pulling items off the queue at once. One huge advantage over, say, SQS, is that you also get easy visibility! You can
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by zapstar 6y ago
What would the motivation be for such an attack? Any thoughts on who could be behind it?
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by zapstar 6y ago
Is there an example or demo? The home page appears to be just text and no images.
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by zapstar 6y ago
After experimenting with Amazon price tracking with my other project [0], I decided to dive a bit deeper within a specific product category -- k-cups! I spent a lot of time pulling together the many brands and flavors, although there's
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Show HN: okaycup.com – Price analysis for mediocre cups of coffee(okaycup.com)
5 points by zapstar 6y ago|1 comments
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by zapstar 6y ago
Thank you! One day I hope to expand beyond the US Amazon!
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by zapstar 6y ago
While working on my side project [0], I regularly find some pretty outlandish prices on Amazon. This post makes me want to add further analysis on 3rd party prices and how they relate to one another. [0] https://unitprice.org
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by zapstar 6y ago
"This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not" I would never think that. $200 a day is fantastic! And $300 seems like quite a goal! Good for you. This must have required a lot of work, and I'm sure th
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by zapstar 6y ago
100% agree. A few have slipped into our collection, and they are very noticeable. Buying the Creative sets [0] are a fairly cheap way to get brand new official Lego and build out your collection. 4 cents a piece isn’t too bad! [0] https:&#
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by zapstar 6y ago
How are you getting updated pricing from Target? Do they have an API, or are you scraping? I've thought about adding Target prices to my website [0], but Amazon's API is so nice, and scraping is a frustrating alternative. [0] htt
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by zapstar 6y ago
Absolutely. You can also find great deals at thrift stores. But there’s nothing like having your kid open up a brand new set of Legos.
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by zapstar 6y ago
I love your math! My website [0] does literally only this calculation. I’m super excited about this collaboration between LEGO and IKEA. [0] https://unitprice.org/lego
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by zapstar 6y ago
I do not scrape Amazon. That would be practically impossible, especially if you want to keep your costs low. I utilize their product advertising API, which provides enough data for my needs (since I'm not interested in every single pro
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by zapstar 6y ago
Oh no, sorry if there was a misunderstanding. I said "sadly" because it is so unfortunate that we are all in this current situation -- a pandemic. And it feels "sad" in this specific context because I am seeing an uptick
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by zapstar 6y ago
Define "success"... I make a few bucks a day from https://unitprice.org and it doesn't require any effort from me on a day-to-day basis. (I calculate the best price per unit on Amazon for a variety of different pr
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by zapstar 7y ago
I have been very impressed with ordering online at Target. Many items that my local grocery store did not have were able to be shipped to me in 2 days. I hope maybe this can help with your situation, at least as far as non-perishable food i
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by zapstar 7y ago
I run a site [1] that aggregates Amazon prices for a select number of product categories, and I’ve seen more and more search engine traffic for toilet paper, which is sad to see, as they are currently all sold out. (Note: I listed toilet pa
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by zapstar 7y ago
This is incredible. But can you explain the “groin” tag?
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by zapstar 7y ago
Any chance you could describe chromatic aberrations? I’ve had some vision frustrations, and I feel like perhaps you’ve just described what I have. So did sticking with the thicker lenses help? Rather than the thinner? (I have a very high pr
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by zapstar 7y ago
I like the shoe idea. Excellent tip. No putting your feet up after you have your shoes on.
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by zapstar 7y ago
You posted this 12 days ago and 13 days ago. So my answer would be “system that can identify duplicate submissions.”
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by zapstar 7y ago
LEGO! Either traditional Lego (they have some Junior sets that are perfect to have them build along with a parent at that age) or Duplo. It's led to hours and hours of fun with my 2.5 year old. Even larger Lego sets he enjoys helping m
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by zapstar 7y ago
While perhaps not worthy of a post on Hacker News, I do see the humor in this account, highlighting the humble brags of the VC world. I think what’s important or funny is that normally these people simply humble brag and then have their flo
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by zapstar 7y ago
Keep saying “no thanks” and stay strong. You don’t owe them a reason or anything. You know you’ve got a good idea and you’re on the right track when everyone wants to simply ride on your coattails!
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by zapstar 7y ago
Do you have a threshold for how much a project should make each month? My project has $30 in profit a month, but hey, that’s more successful than most! (And more successful than any other project I’ve launched!)
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by zapstar 7y ago
What is your budget?
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by zapstar 7y ago
I'm always confused by questions about finding co-founders... Why do you need to find a co-founder? When it doesn't happen naturally, why not go it alone?

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