Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

Each key press adds to the push state history. Spams the back button

Any chance you could make an option to choose which amazon to search (amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.de), I figure the API's will be the same anyway?

A few ideas;<p>Post the ratings. Post the ratings ratios (4-5 vs 1). Post the top 5 per budget. Grab user photos&#x2F;videos and let the user click through them on the product image. Interface with the amazon API for pricing trends (like camelcamelcamel).

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Can you add some more filters?<p>I strongly prefer to purchase items that are either sold directly from Amazon or &quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&quot; items if at all possible. Part of the reason is that it seems like my name and address (and possibly other account information) would be sent to the seller when ordering by other methods, I&#x27;d like to limit this as much as possible.

Very nice way to make some side cash by using amazon affiliate network. Just make sure you are following their rules to a T so you do not get the hammer and actually get paid.<p>I like the clean look and the blue load bar. I also like the results.

I dont get it... doesn&#x27;t amazon already have searching by price&#x2F;rating?

Nice idea.<p>I get &quot;Well, this is taking longer than usual...&quot;. Nothing loads.

In tools &amp; home, a search for ryobi or milwaukee yields results 1&#x2F;2 full of DeWalt tools. Just as I suspected.

This post got a lot of flags. Is that because the site was down? It&#x27;s back up now, so I turned off the flags.

Some or all of the item prices seem to be based on the lowest &quot;Used&quot; price. This is not always ideal -- I am not about to buy a bookcase normally around $50 from the one seller that has it at $12. Being able to exclude used prices would be great.<p>Otherwise great UI and idea.

I searched for &quot;waffle iron&quot; and &quot;tennis racket&quot; and thought the results were pretty spiffy looking.<p>But I&#x27;m a little unclear on the use case for this site. Say I want to buy a waffle iron, so I search for that term and get a list of results. How do I know which one to pick? If<p>a) I had a hard maximum budget b) I wanted to get the absolute best product possible in this budget (rather than say best value possible subject to price within budget) c) When x &lt; y, the best product at $x is always inferior to the best product at $y<p>then I could just look for the price category just below my budget and pick one of the items there. But none of these assumptions are guaranteed to hold; in fact, in my experience generally all three do not.

Cool idea. Can you elaborate on how this improves on just searching amazon directly with filters on price and star rating?

I&#x27;ve seen something like this before. <a href="http://toppp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toppp.com&#x2F;</a>

Very neat idea. I added your site to my bookmarks.<p>But you need a new logo--something that looks more solid, polished, and professional.

FYI, your URLs seem to be encoded incorrectly (perhaps missing a decodeURIComponent somewhere, or incorrectly calling encodeURIComponent). Are you sure Amazon pays when it&#x27;s in that format?

Searched for &#x27;router&#x27; and it recommended the MediaLink one. Noticed MediaBridge is back in business on Amazon? Guess that ban was short-lived =(

OP here: I switched the debounce to 1 second instead of 500ms, so that should fix a bit of the load problems.<p>I&#x27;ll also scale the heroku dynos if it goes down again.

It seems to do a search requests instantly after you type a key (ie. in the middle of entering a word). Not surprised this has load issues.

Fantastic experience using this site! I love seeing what $50 extra bucks gives me and I more often than not splurge the little extra.

The results page consistently use &quot;availible&quot; instead of &quot;available&quot; which was a little jarring.

This is really nice. Any chance of making it work for other Amazon sites (regions) than .com?

This is really cool! does mess up the history though. Every URL gets saved to history.

For my search, it shows 6 &#x27;availible&#x27; items. Spell check time?

It&#x27;s still dead, Jim.

This is very useful. I hope Amazon doesn&#x27;t try to C&amp;D it.

nice, great idea. Will you be adding different Amazons, I live in the UK and products differ&#x2F;may not be available here.

How does a dead link have 12 votes? Curious...

Neat idea. But yeah, error.

Seems nice. I wanted to just see the best products by category, but it wouldn&#x27;t let me search for [blank].