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We do a number of things that limit the data that needs to be scraped e.g. key off of sale patterns / pair sites that tend to have the same price. Beyond that we do simple things to space out and decentralize.

Thanks for the quick feedback! We have listings open in new tabs as users expressed the desire to quickly open items as they browse to look more closely at later. I could see a different UI where users "save" items and then look at all of them in one place.

Yes, we're developing a knowledge graph to score products and represent naming patterns we see across retailers. For instance, the Kirby line at Urban Outfitters is the Curiod line at Walmart and the North Avenue Collection at Amazon.

Argh, I feel your frustration. When this idea originated, I was so aggravated by the whole experience. I do think that the market is moving toward buying without touching, but your ability to trust the quality and fit for your home is still too low.

Agreed. 1) We'd love to have more non- midcentury inventory and be able to filter based on style / design. Tbh, most of the things we call midcentury aren't but are categorized that way. 2) We are also working to aggregate inventory availability across stores as well, so you'll be able to see if a location near you sells that item, and you can go test it out.

Thanks! Hopefully, furniture buying can be a little less dull now.

Thanks! We just added filtering this week and plan to expand it across many dimensions: color, material, size, etc. We see two primary use cases: (1) price check an item they already know about and (2) want to discover new items since it can be tedious to look at inventory across multiple sites.

Ah, yes. I agree that this type of search currently falls flat. We are gathering product specs to be able run searches by dimensions, style, material, color, etc. shortly. I want a table that both looks beautiful and fits into the space I have in my apartment.

Yes! Many home decor products and furnishings are also sold at these retailers, and we intend to add them to Spoken as well.

Fun question! If we can, we assign the name that's within the context of the seller you're looking at. So, if the table is called the Kirby Entryway Table at Urban Outfitters, we call it that when you're looking at the table though an Urban Outfitters search. If not, we use the more commonly used name for the product. In this case, that would be the Sauder North Avenue Console Table, which includes the manufacturer / distributor name.

Inventory is a big one too. We're working on a way to show you who has what in stock and how many are available. By location would be amazing! What were you buying?

Thanks! Isn't it wild? The more we dig into the problem, the more we find. Hopefully, you're able to fill your home now!

Great find! We'll attach this Burke Decor link to the product to help others save.

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Thanks @JoachimSchipper for pointing that out -- It looks like the link has already been updated.

Thanks for the suggestion. Andrew actually wrote an .hresume parser a long time ago (http://github.com/amccollum/microtron/), but that feature never got finished because we were going after universities so heavily this last year. Good to know that our users want it. We might have to reintroduce that soon, now that LinkedIn has their own "LinkedIn to Resume" app.

We chose GAE for JobSpice for a number of reasons, but yes, JobSpice is a GAE app.

I'm a UT honors EE graduate and co-founded JobSpice (YC S09). I will admit that going through the UT system is not conducive to starting a startup -- you kind of have to break the mold.

The classes that are taught are great if you want to work for a large company because for the most part, the professors at the undergraduate level do a good job of teaching what's needed for those type of careers but do not actively promote entrepreneurship.

I was lucky in that my advisor encouraged me to go my own direction, and I started JobSpice less than a year after I graduated but wish I would have started something during my time at UT. The problem lies more in the culture that UT promotes at the classroom level. In addition, outside of Michael Dell, you don't hear stories about past students creating companies in their dorm room like you do at MIT, Stanford or Harvard.