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Some of you might remember the individual charts. This has been brewing as a side project since March last year when I first did the chart of the 200 most popular flash drives. Called it "The tourist map of flashdrives" at that time. Added more products and the interactive filters later in the year. Every time it got good responses here on Hacker News and even some press outlets picked it up.

So I decided to turn this into a full fledged project on its own this year. Got a proper domain name and made a homepage for it. So here it is. ProductChart.com!

Mission statement: For every product type, provide a nice overview of what is available in the market, plus the filters to choose the perfect product.



I like the clean, uncluttered UI.

I have a few questions:

1. Where are you getting the specs for the products?

2. How current are the prices?

3. Could you add an 'LTE' filter for smartphones?

Also a few suggestions:

1. Have an option to view the list as a table, sortable by any parameter

2. Add the filters to the url, so you can bookmark it

3. Email users when a new product which meets the filters hits the market

4. Show the Amazon price history for a product (like camelcamelcamel), and email them when it hits a new low price.

Great work otherwise, I can see myself using it in future.


Happy to hear you like it!

The specs are partly from Amazon and partly from the manufacturers websites.

The date of the price is always written next to it. Never older then 24h.

Yup, will add an LTE filter.

Thanks for the suggestions! I will prioritize all feature requests based on the feedback I get.




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