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by ad_hominem 4350 days ago
I like it a lot, but it would be cool to hear some of the technical details. Such as:

- Technology stack?

- How do you keep product pricing up-to-date? Do you have a persistent process that iterates over your known product list, querying Amazon's Product Advertising API (staying within rate limits)? If that's the case would love to hear more details on language and libraries used as I'm working on something similar.

- How do you discover new products to list?

- What storage backend do you use to store historic pricing data? Regular relational database or something more exotic like InfluxDB?

- Any plans on introducing new retailers besides Amazon? If so, how will you correlate products into canonical listings if the product does not have UPC information?

Things like that.