Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay.

by locksley on 1/3/2013, 4:56 PM with 11 comments
  • by locksley on 1/3/2013, 4:56 PM

    I made this in rails over a couple of weekends after learning how to code late last year. The inspiration came from wanting to buy an iPhone 5 from ebay but not knowing what a fair price should be. After a writing a script to calculate this for myself, I thought it could be useful for others too and abstracted it into its current incarnation.

    Any feedback would be fantastic, especially on UX!

  • by byoung2 on 1/3/2013, 5:08 PM

    I keep getting an error:

    Application Error

    An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

    If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.

  • by toki5 on 1/3/2013, 5:31 PM

    /results?utf8=✓

    This made me laugh aloud.

  • by klous on 1/3/2013, 5:23 PM

    Can you dive more into the technical details of this, eg. are you using the ebay API or are you scraping the data?

  • by Pezmc on 1/3/2013, 5:04 PM

    Perhaps implement a cache for the results? It already seems to be being hit quite hard!

  • by bdfh42 on 1/3/2013, 5:09 PM

    Sadly just reporting an error when I tried.