Posts Tagged amazon
Get a Tweet with the latest DVD releases using MovieScout
Posted by toddicus in entrepreneurs on April 16th, 2008
(Guest Post by Todd Khozein:)
I am proud to say that I have written my first, yes my first, web app ever in the form of a tool to proliferate the growing and widespread impulsive want-it-NOW shopper’s need to be the first to know in the form of a Twitter Bot that will, indeed, tell you what the latest DVD releases are with a link to buy it NOW! Thanks to Joshua for holding my tender little virgin hacker’s hand through the intricacies of building something that actually works in a world where run-on sentences are acceptable, nay encouraged.
I think I have officially taken a significant step towards geekdom and feel that I should commemorate this occasion of the alpha release by inviting you, the reader, to make this app wildly successful and dedicating the remainder of your waking hours tonight and possibly tomorrow in telling all of your people how sexy this app really is.
How I Built a Free Grid Computer, In Less Than a Week
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on April 11th, 2008
By now you’ve all heard about BuyLater, my happy little firefox extension that (thanks to an unexpected LifeHacker.com article) is rapidly climbing towards 1000 users and world domination. Without getting TOO technical, I thought I would share with you how I saved BuyLater from becoming an infrastructure nightmare – one that would have either killed the value of the application (real-time updates), or sucked tons of money and hardware into a technology backwash.
This will be a little controversial, I think – simply because the technique I used, (grid computing), is most often used for less… legitimate… purposes. So much so, that it is almost synonymous with “Bot Nets”.
But let’s go back to the beginning.
Life after LifeHacker.com – What to do when your Alpha leaks
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on March 29th, 2008
Wow. It’s not every day that, suddenly and without warning, thousands upon thousands of strangers descend upon your happy little world, and start playing with it. But such is the power of LifeHacker.com.
They decided to run a story on my happy little bot this morning. I didn’t know about it, came back from lunch – and I had 100 users. (For the last week, that number has been stubbornly stuck at 8).
I poked a little further, and realized that only 20 of those 100 users had twitter accounts. Hmm – I guess I better get email notifications working, eh?
I Wrote A MashUp, Just for You
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on March 22nd, 2008
If you’re one of those people who stood in “The Line”, then this isn’t for you.
If you get a strange, visceral pleasure in wasting hours, even days, of your life, waiting for your local WalMart to get more Beanie Babies in stock – then you should stop reading right now.
If you like to revisit your local grocery store every night, just to see if they’ve dropped the price on those great donuts in aisle 4… then hit the Back Button, and read something else.
But – if you have a life, and you still want to try and buy something online – I might have something that can help.
It’s called BuyLater, and that’s exactly what it’s for – buying Amazon products, later on.
Later can be: When it’s back “In Stock” (can someone say Wii?), or simply when it’s a little cheaper (or even on sale).
Unlike many of my ideas (which are unique, innovative, and incomprehensible), this one actually isn’t mine. My buddy Jesse Andrews did it first, with a Wii-only bot called WiiMe. I just took the idea, and strreeettched it a little.
