I have been working on the website I released last week. I have made some improvements I think are very good. In case you haven't seen my post last week, I built a website that finds all discounted items on 5 MTB online stores and compiles them and give them to you based on Store(s), discount amount and category. mtbdeal.openmtb.com .
Here are some of the improvements I have made so far aside from backend code changes.
Gear stash – You can add items to a gear stash. This way, you can chuck multiple items in your stash, and go back and open up the gear stash locker, and it will organize all your choices by category so you can compare prices, and travel to the sites to make your purchases.
Gray out category's with no items – This one was a no brainer. Once you have selected the first 4 options, and you open categories, any categories that have no items will be grayed out. This way you know if there is anything available.
Hot Deals page – This page just populate all deals at 60% for a quick look. Honestly, I built this page so Google will be able to index the deals that come up on the site. But it is a nice simplified discount page.
Here are a few issues I am currently working on
there are items that are in category's that don't make sense. Like Shirts in with Shocks. This is something that I have to sort out in the scrapers I use to pull the deals off the sites. They are a temporary band aid, and I was hoping to be done with them, however it is taking time to get approved for affiliate programs. Being able to access the affiliate programs would give me direct access to all the products on the site which would make it super easy to import the deals. But for now I have to use the scrapers I built. I have to go through and adjust where it's throwing items into categories. My apologies or the weird item category placement right now. I will get it sorted out this week.
If you haven't checked out the site, give it a look. Let me know what you think, and if there are any improvements you would like to see.
by reimancts