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by scott113341 3138 days ago
I made an open source version of this. https://github.com/scott113341/southwest-price-drop-bot
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fuzionmonkey 3138 days ago
Nice work, it even has a deploy to Heroku button!

Honestly, I think it's pretty lame trying to profit from arbitrage on SW prices like that. $3 per alert? Really?

Great job making an OSS implementation.

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jey 3138 days ago
They're providing you a service by coding it up, hosting it, dealing with customer service requests and Southwest's lawyers, etc. Seems fair to charge $3 to provide the service of saving you money. Also seems fair to try outcompeting them by providing that service for free at your own expense.
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justboxing 3138 days ago
> pretty lame trying to profit from arbitrage

Lame? Possibly. Profitable? Probably.

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bob_theslob646 3138 days ago
> pretty lame trying to profit from arbitrage

It's actually quite stupid. If they did not ask Southwest for permission, they are asking to be sued, especially when you charge people money.

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