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Show HN: Track changes in product price, get notifications by email

59 points by plaban123 12y ago

aakashlpin 12y ago
Currently supporting all major sellers in India. Would it be nice if it supported seller model from Flipkart?
- plaban123 12y ago
  I have found prices varying a lot between sellers in flipkart. And flipkart most of time shows its own seller(WS Retail)'s price. So such a feature will be nice.
  - aakashlpin 12y ago
    I read a Quora post by a Flipkart employee who said that the seller chosen on the home page is often the most trusted seller. I doubt if people would buy from sellers with lower ratings. Nonetheless, a feature to consider all sellers before notifying prices would be nice.
yangyang 12y ago
Also see Camelcamelcamel (http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/) - they do a great job of price tracking on Amazon. They have historical data for a surprising number of products too.
- jkimber 12y ago
  Camelcamelcamel isn't bad for Amazon but I prefer http://TrackIf.com http://TrackIf.com too. They do Amazon and about 1,100 other sites.
  - hnha 12y ago
    how nice of you to sign up and share that information...
    - ecaron 12y ago
      Don't worry. I called him out on that too. He just got excited about discovering a new community (HN showed up on Google Analytics.) /me inserts obligatory Dilbert marketing reference
- horaci 12y ago
  Have you tried https://pricenoia.com/ https://pricenoia.com/ ?
v33ra 12y ago
Cheap pass or cheap ass?
- aakashlpin 12y ago
  cheap ass :)
ecaron 12y ago
We do this at my company, https://trackif.com https://trackif.com. More than products (for instance we'll track rubygems, npmjs & github). I just haven't gotten off my butt to write a blog post about it since I figured "price tracking" wasn't a topic that'd interest the HN community.
- ThomPete 12y ago
  There is no topic that isn't of interest to the HN community as long as it expands our knowledge.
robzyb 12y ago
Buyable does a similar (identical?) thing http://buyable.me/ http://buyable.me/
donniezazen 12y ago
Reminds me of stocks. How do you tell if the price is at lowest? If it is not at it's lowest you are losing money. If it is at lowest and you didn't buy it you lose money too.
- aakashlpin 12y ago
  IMO, "price is at lowest" doesn't make sense at all. If I'm are interested in buying something, waiting for a while to save a few bucks would give me more pleasure than knowing what the lowest price of this product ever was.
samaybhavsar 12y ago
I have been using MakkhiChoose (http://www.kernelinsights.com/makkhichoose http://www.kernelinsights.com/makkhichoose)
gregbarbosa 12y ago
Reminds me of Wishclouds (http://wishclouds.com/ http://wishclouds.com/)
lovelettr 12y ago
Tried it on a product on Amazon I like to watch prices on [1] and got the following error: > Shoo! My super powers tell me this link doesn't belong to sellers we support. I thought Amazon was a supported retailer? [1] http://amzn.com/B00FJRS5BA http://amzn.com/B00FJRS5BA
- aakashlpin 12y ago
  Ah. Too bad. Supports Amazon.in only.
mitchellmckenna 12y ago
I built the price alerts on engadget.com, just add a product like the iPhone (http://www.engadget.com/products/apple/iphone/5s/ http://www.engadget.com/products/apple/iphone/5s/) to your want list and you'll get an email when the price drops.
technobrat9 12y ago
Well.. I have been using ValueTag- It supports US and India Demonstration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnlcopbmlkmilnhaabkffdnfjg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnl... Good thing is they also have android application which does much more. Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix.valuetag&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix....

59 points by plaban123 12y ago

aakashlpin 12y ago

Currently supporting all major sellers in India. Would it be nice if it supported seller model from Flipkart?

plaban123 12y ago
I have found prices varying a lot between sellers in flipkart. And flipkart most of time shows its own seller(WS Retail)'s price. So such a feature will be nice.
- aakashlpin 12y ago
  I read a Quora post by a Flipkart employee who said that the seller chosen on the home page is often the most trusted seller. I doubt if people would buy from sellers with lower ratings. Nonetheless, a feature to consider all sellers before notifying prices would be nice.

yangyang 12y ago

Also see Camelcamelcamel (http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/) - they do a great job of price tracking on Amazon. They have historical data for a surprising number of products too.

jkimber 12y ago
Camelcamelcamel isn't bad for Amazon but I prefer http://TrackIf.com http://TrackIf.com too. They do Amazon and about 1,100 other sites.
- hnha 12y ago
  how nice of you to sign up and share that information...
  - ecaron 12y ago
    Don't worry. I called him out on that too. He just got excited about discovering a new community (HN showed up on Google Analytics.) /me inserts obligatory Dilbert marketing reference
horaci 12y ago
Have you tried https://pricenoia.com/ https://pricenoia.com/ ?

v33ra 12y ago

Cheap pass or cheap ass?

aakashlpin 12y ago
cheap ass :)

ecaron 12y ago

We do this at my company, https://trackif.com https://trackif.com. More than products (for instance we'll track rubygems, npmjs & github). I just haven't gotten off my butt to write a blog post about it since I figured "price tracking" wasn't a topic that'd interest the HN community.

ThomPete 12y ago
There is no topic that isn't of interest to the HN community as long as it expands our knowledge.

robzyb 12y ago

Buyable does a similar (identical?) thing http://buyable.me/ http://buyable.me/

donniezazen 12y ago

Reminds me of stocks. How do you tell if the price is at lowest? If it is not at it's lowest you are losing money. If it is at lowest and you didn't buy it you lose money too.

aakashlpin 12y ago
IMO, "price is at lowest" doesn't make sense at all. If I'm are interested in buying something, waiting for a while to save a few bucks would give me more pleasure than knowing what the lowest price of this product ever was.

samaybhavsar 12y ago

I have been using MakkhiChoose (http://www.kernelinsights.com/makkhichoose http://www.kernelinsights.com/makkhichoose)

gregbarbosa 12y ago

Reminds me of Wishclouds (http://wishclouds.com/ http://wishclouds.com/)

lovelettr 12y ago

Tried it on a product on Amazon I like to watch prices on [1] and got the following error: > Shoo! My super powers tell me this link doesn't belong to sellers we support. I thought Amazon was a supported retailer? [1] http://amzn.com/B00FJRS5BA http://amzn.com/B00FJRS5BA

aakashlpin 12y ago
Ah. Too bad. Supports Amazon.in only.

mitchellmckenna 12y ago

I built the price alerts on engadget.com, just add a product like the iPhone (http://www.engadget.com/products/apple/iphone/5s/ http://www.engadget.com/products/apple/iphone/5s/) to your want list and you'll get an email when the price drops.

technobrat9 12y ago

Well.. I have been using ValueTag- It supports US and India Demonstration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnlcopbmlkmilnhaabkffdnfjg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnl... Good thing is they also have android application which does much more. Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix.valuetag&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix....