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		garethsprice on June 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't ... I built http://www.giftstrong.com/ that pulls the 100 top rated products from Amazon. It was built over a weekend to experiment with the Yii PHP framework and because I wanted to see what the list looked like (wasn't disappointed, there's some surprising stuff on there - like how Braveheart on DVD is mankind's greatest accomplishment according to Amazon). I was considering promoting it as a quick way to find gifts for people and use it for this purpose myself, but I have more profitable/enjoyable things to be doing.

iSloth on June 10, 2012 | [–]

Great website, would be even better if it noticed I was from the UK, and then showed UK Amazon results :)

garethsprice on June 10, 2012 | | [–]

Thanks for the suggestion! If it generates profit in the current version I'd love to expand it to other countries.

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