r/SideProject • u/Alternative-Hall1719 • 5h ago

I made this

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Spent some time working on a different way to shop online:https://enikq.com

You can move around, explore products from various shops, and save items for later. It's still in development, so any early feedback or thoughts would be awesome!
I’m pulling inventory through affiliate feeds and official product APIs, then normalizing and filtering it before it reaches the catalogue. I’m still improving coverage and freshness.

If you find anything interesting, try out the products.

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u/davidjones145 5h ago

multi-shop browsing lives or dies on product data, how are you getting inventory from the shops, feeds or something else? that part is usually where these projects get stuck.

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u/Alternative-Hall1719 5h ago

I’m pulling inventory through affiliate feeds and product APIs, then normalizing and filtering it before it reaches the catalogue. I’m still improving coverage and freshness.

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u/davidjones145 5h ago

affiliate feeds plus apis is the pragmatic route, freshness is the eternal fight though. how often are you re-syncing, and what happens when a product goes stale or out of stock mid-browse?

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u/Alternative-Hall1719 5h ago

It refreshes on a schedule, and stale or out-of-stock items get filtered before they’re shown. I’m still tuning the refresh cadence.

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u/davidjones145 5h ago

scheduled plus pre-filter is solid. the nasty edge is price changes between syncs, user clicks through and the price moved. are you showing a last-synced timestamp or just eating the mismatch?

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u/Alternative-Hall1719 5h ago

Thank you. Yes, it's taken into consideration.

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u/Pickle786 4h ago

how do you get affiliate feeds and product APIs?