Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed

This is probably the best funding announcement I have ever seen: self deprecating, funny and actually useful to the reader.<p>Congrats guys, rock on!

Congrats.<p>I'm sure they're aware, but for others here: decide.com does a fantastic job at price predicting products, and is founded by the same person behind the price prediction algorithm purchased by Bing ("Farecast") and he is also a tenured professor at the University of Washington specializing in machine learning. Pretty steep competition both from an engineering and business standpoint.

I'm pretty sure my reaction to this is due to being outside YC &#38; SV, but ...<p><i>We raised $1.5 million in 10 days and pretty much the whole time we didn’t feel very good.</i><p>Ten days? Didn't feel very good? That's fundraising? Wow. What can I even say to that? Congrats guys.

<a href="https://skitch.com/matthewbeale/82y5t/car-used-price-850" rel="nofollow">https://skitch.com/matthewbeale/82y5t/car-used-price-850</a><p>Admittedly, searching for "car" is vague, but this is just too funny of a result to not share :-)<p>Exciting!

Apparently a wive is really affordable <a href="http://priceonomics.com/search/?q=wife&#38;fs=1" rel="nofollow">http://priceonomics.com/search/?q=wife&#38;fs=1</a>

<a href="http://search.priceonomics.com" rel="nofollow">http://search.priceonomics.com</a> I lol'ed

Price comparison makes you unhappy!<p><a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&#38;%20WILSON%20(2011).pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&#38;%20WIL...</a>

Raising venture capital seems not to require building a secure product:<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/7pad22b" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/7pad22b</a> (Click the search bar to execute the code)

With the new financing, could/would you build medical pricing into your practice areas?<p>It's about-time for more transparency in the medical world.<p><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1100041" rel="nofollow">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1100041</a>

Omar, Priceonomics should have a price page for itself

It would be nice if they tailored the searches a bit more to geo-location. I search for things and end up getting craigslist results for SF even though I'm in Canada.

Congrats! I just gave about 30 electronic items to someone on TaskRabbit to sell for me. Used ebay to correctly price them, but priceonomics was spot on when verifying them!

I hope it will work someday cause it doesn't for now.. <a href="http://priceonomics.com/cars/ford/mondeo/" rel="nofollow">http://priceonomics.com/cars/ford/mondeo/</a>

Congrats on the round and really great post, guys!

<a href="http://priceonomics.com/search/?q=human+being" rel="nofollow">http://priceonomics.com/search/?q=human+being</a><p>tldr: $37

Big congrats guys! I feel assured knowing we won't be eating top ramen all summer.

I'd love to see this for salaries.

Misspelled my last name. :(

Congrats, guys! Well done.

Blog is down?

Hiring??? :D

I suppose this a positive, but I'm skeptical when companies use marketing events and cheeky blog posts to trumpet funding events. Especially when they don't disclose the reason why they needed to source funding the first place. Or they never mention how the capital will help the idea move forward.<p>The other reason why I am skeptical is that feels like startups these days are more focused on raising money than shipping product. Is the referenced blog post an example?<p>This is what I hear from this post: "hey, everyone! (waving hands) - we raised a round!"<p>I'd rather see: "hey, everyone! check out what we rolled out today!"<p>And If what you rolled out today is successful, innovative, <i>generates net income</i>, and is backed by 500 trillion in venture capital. Fantastic!<p>Otherwise, why should I be concerned that you got some people to invest in your idea?