Official priceTrackr Launch
Edit 2009-11-10: priceTrackr is back! Follow-up post to come soon.
Edit 2009-09-16: I still notice quite a bit of traffic from digg to here which I appreciate. Before you go on your please note that priceTrackr has been down for quite some time as I haven’t been motivated to shell out a few extra bucks a month for better hosting. Additionally at this point in my life I would have to rewrite the entire project in django. Perhaps if enough people express interest in this it’ll be worthwhile. Otherwise thanks for visiting!
After weeks of work priceTrackr is finally ready for the public. I put off studying for tomorrow’s midterm to ensure the launch of priceTrackr. With priceTrackr live I can finally share the exciting details of priceTrackr, so without further adieu I present you with priceTrackr:
priceTrackr’s purpose is to aid consumers in the purchasing of newegg items. This is done this by graphically plotting the cost versus time over the duration of time which the item has been tracked. The graph displays the base cost vs time, savings cost vs time and finally the after rebates cost vs time. Each of these prices include shipping as that must be paid to receive the item.
That is the simplicity that is priceTrackr. In time new features will be added such as recommended purchases and best deals.
With that being said I would like to thank those that helped contribute to priceTrackr:
- Adam — thanks for suggesting the web2.0ish name, as well as the other ideas you provided.
- Boney and Doupe — thanks for all the constructive criticism as always.
- Buz — thanks for checking the layout in IE7 for me.
- Cheri and Tom — thanks for correcting my grammatical errors.
- Mike — thanks for finding the no data bug.
- Monica — thanks for putting up with loss in our time together due to my dedication to priceTrackr. Also thanks for sitting next to me and providing input while I changed the colors around for a few hours.
- Shaun — thanks for looking over the project and for the input.
Now go check out priceTrackr.
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Comments
Comment from Jonathan
Time September 1, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Congrats, Bryce! Hey, as long as people are correcting your grammatical (and other) errors, you’re writing “verses” above, when you mean “versus”. Verses are like what happen in a song between the chorus.
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time September 1, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Jonathan, thanks for the correction. I’m quite prone to mistakes so I’ll take all the input I can get.
Comment from Cheri
Time September 4, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Well, shoot! Sorry Boe. Bryce only asked us to correct grammatical errors on the priceTrackr site; he specifically said he wasn’t worried about the blog. Having said that, despite both of us having read this post, neither Tom nor I caught the verses vs. versus or one of us would have pointed it out. Jonathan wins!
Comment from ted
Time September 6, 2006 at 10:47 am
your site is down, probably will never visit again. nice knowing you
Comment from Ken
Time September 6, 2006 at 10:49 am
site is dead. =/
as to be expected with digg submission. sounds like a good site idea, will have to check it out later.
Comment from Scott Friend
Time September 6, 2006 at 11:09 am
It seems to be down for the moment, but what a _great_ idea. I’ve always wanted a price vs. time tracker for Newegg but never thought I’d see one.
Thanks!
Comment from Dave 2.3rc1
Time September 6, 2006 at 11:12 am
Hey what the ???? The pricetrackr site is down.
Comment from ryu
Time September 6, 2006 at 11:24 am
Down down down!
Comment from onesojourner
Time September 6, 2006 at 11:39 am
yep its down. I will try to check back and see if it is working.
Comment from baggachipz
Time September 6, 2006 at 12:11 pm
This was a great idea… when I made it two years ago and called it PricePlotter.com. I wish digg was around then to hook me up.
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time September 6, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I would just like to say that priceTrackr is back up, and thanks for visiting. I would like to promote Adam’s site wootwatchers. It’s a great woot notification site.
Thanks again.
Comment from Melikoth
Time September 6, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Thats pretty awesome. Someone should make a firefox extension that adds a check priceTrackr button to item pages, then it displays the priceTrackr page in an overlay div or something. That would make it double-plus.
Comment from lilricky
Time September 6, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Nope, the site is back down, “This Site Temporarily Unavailable” who is your website provider? Might want to think about finding someone who is a bit more reliable. I know being digg’ed is a strain to any server, but a reliable company would be able to take steps to keep your site up, thats if you told them that you were going to submit your site to the digg audience….
Comment from LickMyGiggle
Time September 6, 2006 at 2:28 pm
It seems to be down again 
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time September 6, 2006 at 2:28 pm
lilricky:
The DNS changes haven’t propagated to your DNS server yet. Give it some time and it will.
Comment from Kristopher
Time September 6, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Hi Bryce,
Can you contact me if you get a chance? My email is in the non-published field above.
Kristopher
Comment from Jonathan
Time September 6, 2006 at 4:26 pm
“The DNS changes haven’t propagated to your DNS server yet. Give it some time and it will.”
5 hours later and I still have the DNS message. Unfortunately, while this may be true, your digg audience will see this NOW, not in 10 hours once their DNS servers have updated. I’ll still bookmark this, because it looks like a really cool idea, and I build all of my boxes off of newegg.
Hopefully things get straightened out before the post gets modded down for being a bad link.
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time September 6, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Yeah there is nothing I can do about the DNS. It’s my loss, it works for some, and doesn’t work for others. DNS changes can take up to 24 hours, mainly because each DNS server isn’t always asking for the most recent changes. It’s out of my hands.
Comment from Help is on the way
Time September 6, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Option A: Set your DNS servers to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 for a moment.
Option B: Go to 74.22.74.232 instead of pricetrackr.com
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Comment from Bob369963
Time September 6, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Thank you Bryce. Very well done. This will come in very handy for me.
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time September 6, 2006 at 9:27 pm
74.22.74.232 wont work as it’s not the only website on the host. Thanks for option A though.
Bob I’m glad this will come in handy. Thanks for the kind words.
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Comment from onesojourner
Time September 9, 2006 at 7:52 am
cool site now we just have to wait for it to get populated with some data. I am not a huge fan of the fonts they look pretty rough to me.
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Time September 13, 2006 at 10:38 pm
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Comment from Adam Doupe
Time August 30, 2006 at 9:38 pm
No problem Bryce. I’ll always be available to give you constructive criticism.
Hey, as for more advice, on each item’s page I’d put the name of the item in the title of the page. This’ll make google rank those pages higher when someone searches for an item. Anyhoo, I like the site, and the colors.
P.S. How funny is it that I saw (and clicked on) a TigerDirect.com ad.