markthethomas

yup - updated

Dealing with insurance reimbursements is a huge pain, so threw this together over a few weeks. Not bulletproof, but hoping it can help the thousands of other people in my situation a little bit

I'm working on Costbot, a price tracking tool designed to help online shoppers save time and money by monitoring price histories and alerting them when their favorite products hit their target prices. The side-project recently become done "enough" to be shared in small fashion, and wanted to ask for feedback/thoughts etc. on here.

I'm a staff software engineer by trade, but love working on side projects in my (relatively rare) spare moments. This has been a fun project, involving some new things I hadn't worked on before (extended parsing / crawling, scraping, headless browsers etc.). Hoping to put together a write-up on the tech soon.

This looks super cool! I have a use case where I store some stateful stuff in Redis that a worker constantly interacts w/ and updates. Redis is great, but the project is a very side thing and would love not to have to pay for bandwidth / just embed it inside of it. Going to take a look at this and see if I can make it work! Didn't see any serialization formats, so might just do that myself. Ty for building this!

Not sure if I missed done nuanced point here or it was just a non-sequitur of an article

That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)

Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.

(unpkg seems to be up now)