Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator Background: I noticed that my better half spent a lot of time searching for the same thing (at the time it was maternity dresses) across a whole load of women's fashion stores online. So I built her a site that lets her search some of the top stores from one site. I have an idea for a few social elements that I want to add to try and make more of a community. Any feedback, tips etc welcome. http://shoplove.co.uk |
Any idea on how to keep it alive/monetize it? Maybe high street stores would want to promote some of their items to the top of lists?
Just wondering: Do you have any concerns regarding copyright use of text, images etc. of the products being sold?
Have you looked into possible Google penalties regarding duplication of text from other websites?
I have noticed, however, that most, if not all of the sites offer product feeds that include the images. So I'd assume that there is no issue there.
Regarding Google, I honestly don't have a clue. I shall put some time into looking into it though
Especially since you mention crawling stores, would be interesting to know how the color-matching works. I'd think the metadata is not very consistent.
In the end, I just ended up using the colours mentioned on the pages when I scrape them.
It works well generally but throws a few false positives.
I'd also love an explanation as what you're doing on the crawl to collate it all?