Show HN: I rebuilt my tool to search AMZN Deals based on HN feedback-Sukit stack
Hello everyone,

I posted here 2 weeks ago to share a very rough version of an app I'm building to search and sort Amazon Warehouse deals easily. The feedback via comments or DMs has been extremely useful to me so I wanted to share the result of the complete rebuild coming from that feedback.

TLDR; The original app was too busy with random listings everywhere making it unpleasant to look for a specific item.

The redesigned app is now organized around two parts:
* Category-specific shops to show some deals that are categorized with a finer grain.
* A catch-all bazaar where all deals collected go in real-time for users to search on their own in the full dataset.

I still have a lot of things I want to implement (e.g. custom notifications, more categories, caching strategy, etc.) but learning from my past failures it's always better to start small, share often and listen to any incoming feedback.

Please reach out if for any feedback or questions.
Nico

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As many of you here I'm a fruit of the tech world and have been deep in the solopreneur journey for almost 2 years now. To break from the long development cycles of my other projects I wanted to try putting this one here very early on and also provide visibility on tech stack, roadmap and strategy for folks to pick on.

WHAT: A website to see, filter and sort through Amazon Warehouse deals easily. Limited to US market for now but will add coverage as I go.

WHY: Convenience and Affordability. This came from a personal frustration of not being able to browse efficiently across deals while on Amazon's website. They have a bazillion refurbished or like new items available but no good way to search and sort them out without clicking through individual pages. After building a prototype for my friends and family I realized most seemed to be able to find items of interest for much cheaper than they were expecting. That's when I got the idea to open up this project externally to get ideas/feedback to iterate on and hopefully help folks find cheaper alternatives before buying anything.

HOW: The design revolves around 3 key pieces: - A set of headed workers running 24/7 to identify and collect Amazon Warehouse deals - A backend to store and serve the deals - A responsive frontend for users to interact with

Tech stack:
Backend:
- Core: Nodejs via PM2 + Bash
- Workers: Proxmox VMs behind rotating VPNs
- Database: PostgreSQL (via Supabase)

Frontend:
- Core: Sveltekit
- CSS: Tailwind CSS
- UI Framework: Shadcn-svelte
- Testing: Playwright
- CDN, DNS & Hosting: Cloudflare
- Analytics: Plausible

WHERE: https://amznbargains.com

BUT WHAT'S MY GOAL HERE? Obviously this is not a multi-million dollar idea. I'd simply like to get this solution to a point where it provides service to many users for free with no compromise on privacy or UX while ideally being self-sustained. Building foundations: - The only source of revenue will be through the Associate Program as it comes at no cost to users and requires no data to be collected/exchanged. - No registration required to get service. - No personal data ever stored or even less exchanged/resold. - No ads, commercial collaboration or algo biased by monetary incentives. - Plausible could be seen as going against some of the above but has been selected because it allows me to track the few metrics required to run the app (i.e. referer, country of origin) while respecting stringent privacy guidelines.