WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

L1quid's comments

L1quid | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Browser-extension creators, how do you write for multiple browsers?

For our browser extension, The Camelizer, I wrote Spader: https://github.com/cosmic-shovel/spader

It lets me use Ruby in my html/css/js files, and also sass in the css, letting us use one codebase for all target browsers.

Definitely a work in progress, and lacks the exciting auto-reload functionality of other similar projects, but it works for us. Issuing one build command and having an extension for all our target browsers is pretty nice.

L1quid | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

I think Amazon is adding the language parameter. We do not force a language on outgoing links. Worth stripping on our end, though.

Thanks for the feedback.

L1quid | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.

L1quid | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long.

Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

L1quid | 6 years ago | on: CamelCamelCamel Is Not Tracking Amazon Pricing Anymore

Camel creator here. This is, for now, only in the EU. We are still tracking prices in US/CA/AU.

The return of EU tracking is currently uncertain. After the crisis is over, we don't know if Amazon will just tell us we're done. And even if they don't, their recent mandatory API upgrade -- which appears to have made API quotas global, rather than per-region -- may have made it impossible for us to continue service in that region. More on this will be posted on our blog if it becomes important.

L1quid | 7 years ago | on: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

Years ago, when Google kicked our browser extension out of their store, we were in a similar situation.

Fortunately, I knew more than one person who worked there and begged them to ask around. Eventually, we were told something to the effect of, Google outsources management of the store. Once an actual Google employee got their eyes on it, we were reinstated.

L1quid | 10 years ago | on: Camelcamelcamel is livetweeting a physical datacenter move

Last I checked, just one AWS database instance would cost us $20k+/year if we pre-paid for a reserved instance, and that doesn't include all the usage-based fees (storage, iops).

And it's only a headache if you dislike spending two days in the car / colo / car / colo.

page 1
more