Introducing ShoppingSense - a New Price and Product Comparison Site

Hi,

I'm posting to introduce ShoppingSense (of which I am the main developer). ShoppingSense aims to simplify online shopping by providing the ability to filter and sort products based on many different attributes, not just price. We also provide price history graphs, which aims to help the shopper weed out the bargains from the "bargains". Users can save lists of favourite products and compare their attributes. The home page shows the top price drops in the last few days, for people on the lookout for bargains!

The end goal could be said to be a better retail experience than many of the online retailers in Australia provide, but with access to the prices from many shops at the same time.

The service is currently in Beta, by which I mean that it is live, and being updated, but there are many categories missing still and product information is not always as complete as we'd like. Laptops is the most mature category, or maybe CPUs. The site is more or less limited to PC gear at the moment, but we're indexing many other product types and will make them available as soon as possible. (For personal reasons fridges might be next :) I should also mention that the site does not yet have an interface designed with mobiles in mind, and is best used from a PC at present.

I hope this service is of interest to the OzBargain community, and would appreciate any feedback!

/ShoppingSense

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Comments

  • Can you tap into the staticice database to introduce their historical prices too?

    • We're not affiliated in any way and I'm not aware of them providing any public price history database, so I don't see how.

      Am I understanding the question correctly?

  • neat

  • Nice idea. :)

    So it's just computer stuff?

    • +1

      Thanks!

      For the moment, yes, but we plan to expand to other areas as well as soon as possible. We are tracking the prices of quite a lot of stuff that has not made it onto the web site yet. There is no fundamental difference or difficulty in handling these, just ensuring that the categories are not full of noise and that product attributes are extracted with reasonable accuracy.

  • +1

    A query - what is purpose of Server information in the link (http://shoppingsense.com.au/product_page.php?p=10046135)

    • That means the developer is going to get in a bit of trouble for leaving a var_dump statement in production code ;)

      • Ahem, yes. I gave that web developer a good talking to. :)

        Thanks for pointing this out.
        All and any feedback is welcome!

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