L1quid

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im a coder who develop[s|ed] camelcamelcamel.com and some other sites.
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Comment · 4 years ago
For our browser extension, The Camelizer, I wrote Spader: https://github.com/cosmic-shovel/spader

It lets me use Ruby in my html/css/js files, and also sass in the css, letting us use one codebase for all target browsers.

Definitely a work in progress, and lacks the exciting auto-reload functionality of other similar projects, but it works for us. Issuing one build command and having an extension for all our target browsers is pretty nice.

Comment · 6 years ago
I think Amazon is adding the language parameter. We do not force a language on outgoing links. Worth stripping on our end, though.

Thanks for the feedback.

Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you. We currently have no expansion plans.
Comment · 6 years ago
Amazon's policies changed in both China and Japan. This cut us off from the product data in those countries.
Comment · 6 years ago
An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long.

Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for your support.
Comment · 6 years ago
Camel creator here. This is, for now, only in the EU. We are still tracking prices in US/CA/AU.

The return of EU tracking is currently uncertain. After the crisis is over, we don't know if Amazon will just tell us we're done. And even if they don't, their recent mandatory API upgrade -- which appears to have made API quotas global, rather than per-region -- may have made it impossible for us to continue service in that region. More on this will be posted on our blog if it becomes important.

Comment · 7 years ago
Years ago, when Google kicked our browser extension out of their store, we were in a similar situation.

Fortunately, I knew more than one person who worked there and begged them to ask around. Eventually, we were told something to the effect of, Google outsources management of the store. Once an actual Google employee got their eyes on it, we were reinstated.

Comment · 7 years ago
We bought 14 of them, plus a RAID card.
Comment · 7 years ago
All of the drives in the RAID were the same age, so it didn't make a lot of sense to replace only three of them.

That reduces the price per drive to a mere $1,000! What a steal.

Comment · 8 years ago
I would much rather deal with Amazon for returns and replacements though. Their customer service is streets ahead of Newegg's.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
Comment · 9 years ago
Should be working now, sorry about that.
Comment · 9 years ago
We applied to YC in 2008, I think, but weren't ready to commit to it fulltime. Then we did just that in 2009.

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