[HN Gopher] Show HN: Nerd Crawler - we monitor original comic ar...
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Show HN: Nerd Crawler - we monitor original comic art sites so you
don't have to
I've been a fan of comics since I watched the X-Men Animated Series
in the 90s, and I fell in love with collecting original comic art
when I got my first Jim Lee sketch in high school. But, after
missing out on some original comic art pieces because I didn't know
when they were added for sale on websites, I decided to take it
upon myself to make an app that monitors original comic art sites
and emails/texts you when new art drops. It's called Nerd Crawler
and I'm building it myself so there might be some bugs but I'm
hoping it helps comic art collectors. It works with over 40
original comic art websites like Albert Moy (Jim Lee's art dealer),
Cadence Comic Art, Artcoholics, a bunch of Big Cartel sites like
Jim Cheung / Jason Fabok / Dustin Nguyen, Greg Capullo Art, Skottie
Young, and more. It's free to try @ https://www.nerdcrawler.com/,
and you can upgrade to a paid plan if you want text messages alerts
or want to check sites every 10 minutes or 1 minute. From a
technical standpoint, my tech stack is: - Ruby on Rails - Hosted
on Heroku - Emails sent by Mailgun - Texts sent by Twilio - Images
hosted on Cloudinary - Credit card charging handled by Stripe and
the new, low-code Stripe Checkout The minimum viable product was
built in about a week with minor bug fixes and new features added
weekly. If you have any feedback, have art sites you wanted added,
or questions, let me know!
Author : chptung
Score : 6 points
Date : 2022-06-23 22:10 UTC (51 minutes ago)
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