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Products that do what Best Time to Buy (BTTB) – See the best time to buy stuff and save money does

Hey HN! I wanted to show you BTTB, a site I've been building off-and-on for the past year or so. I did all the end-to-end coding and design and enlisted the help of a few professional researchers and writers to gather and aggregate data. My background is in frontend engineering, design, and product development. BTTB is a web app that illustrates the best time to buy common products (e.g. washing machines, snowblowers, TVs, fitness equipment, etc.) and notifies you the next time it's a good time to buy. I also built some cool indicators like sale rarity. Why I built it: We bought a new house…

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    Dealster104

    A platform for finding the best deals in software

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    Yellowbag163

    Save your favorite products and buy when the price drops

    2015

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    Recommendation on when to buy Apple products

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    A few months ago my Pixel 4A phone was dying so I started thinking about upgrading to a newer model. I didn't want to get hit with buyer's remorse if a price drop happened after buying, due to a new model being announced or released. After digging around, it turns out that understanding the lifecycle of even the most popular phones isn’t that easy. That's why I've made this simple site: keeps tabs on phones lifecycles and gives you a heads-up on upcoming sales seasons to nail your purchase timing. At the moment it only covers the big Android players—Samsung and Google, but I'm keen to expand…

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    How much did you save by not buying Bitcoins?

    2018

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    For the past few months, I've been working on a website that answers two different questions: - Where in my city have the best travel times to all the things and people I care about? - Given a listing, how far is it from all the things and people I care about? Personally this was fueled by my own frustrations when I was apartment hunting in NYC. I was frustrating to have to juggle so many Google Maps tabs when I was evaluating a listing, and it was also annoying to not have full confidence that I was even searching in the right places. I wanted to be close to work, a Trader Joe's, and a…

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    Buy things directly on Pinterest.

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    See how much your dumbest purchases would be worth in BTC

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    Do you really *need* to buy something?

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    Honey for hotels. You browse. We’ll show when it’s cheaper.

    2020

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    Hi HN! I've spent the last few months building HomeSheet - The all in one tool to track your personal assets. I built HomeSheet to make organizing and documenting my belongings a breeze. I've always wanted to put together a home inventory to protect myself in the event of a disaster, but I never found a solution that I liked. Right now HomeSheet is in early access, and I'm still working on determining what additional features users would like. I'll be around in the comments if you have any feedback, questions, or just want to say hi!

    2022 · homesheet.co

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    Make home buying easy with a self-paced home buying platform

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    Calculate the opportunity cost of not buying bitcoin

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    Slow164

    Slow down your spending with the world’s slowest checkout 🛒

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    Collection of steps needed to close on a house

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    Ideally113

    Shopping app buys for you whenever there’s a sale.

    2016

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    The web's best guide for the lowest prices on Black Friday

    2015

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    A simple tool that reminds us all how bad we screwed up.

    2018

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    Dot&Bo81

    Discover and buy things you love for your home

    2015

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    Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths

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    A friend(@wolever) and I spent the weekend hacking up a small web app which makes it easy for you to sell digital goods for Bitcoins. Once a customer has clicked the “buy” button, we take care of giving them a unique address, monitoring that address for transactions, then securely notifying your website once a minimum number of confirmations have been received. Oh, ya, and then we send you the Bitcoins :) The website is here: BitWillet: http://www.bitwillet.com and there is a demo on the front page. (full disclosure: BitWillet uses the Willet, http://dev.getwillet.com, platform, of which I…

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    A budgeting tool for busy people - all your data is private

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