BuyItLater becomes a grid computer to help us find and get deals on Amazon
April 13, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
I talked about Joshua McKenty’s BuyItLater last week and I alluded to an upgrade that was in the works that was both innovative and potentially controversial. Joshua wrote about the changes on Friday and with change, comes questions …
There are two questions that people have asked me, so far:
What do your users think about that?
What does Amazon think about that?
To the first one, I have no idea. That’s really what this post is about – what DO you think about it? Is it alright for Larry to be fetching data from Amazon, that helps Sally get a deal? Should …read more
You want it now, but it’s not in stock? Then Buy It Later can help
April 9, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
One of the cool things demoed at DemoCampVictoria–Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night–was Joshua McKenty’s Buy it later. Joshua developed and pushed BountyUp for a long time, but on a whim one night decided to tackle a simple problem: you want to buy something at Amazon and it’s out of stock, why do you do? Joshua created a simple Firefox/Flock extension that let’s you click a button and have a service tell you when it’s available. If it is available, but you just want the best price, the Buy It Later will tell you when the price changes.
So let’s …read more




