New Website to Find Cheapest Gun Price. Great for Black Friday/Cyber Monday

[gunwatcher]

appreciate the reception! Glad to see everyone enjoying it. I will be ramping up the servers for black friday to try and catch the deals as fast as i can!

 

[Mgderf]

Well, it works, and that's more than we can say for healthcare.gov.

It's quite obvious you have no affiliation with CGI.

Great work. It should be a HUGE asset to the gun community.

Thank you!

 

[Pete]

Thanks! Nice, it's bookmarked already.

 

[vgr]

Nice work gunwatcher!

 

[kiddchaos]

are you using mongo db or something like that on the backend.
how often do you hit the sites?
i wonder how you parse the sites.


i had written a quick cron/php program to text me (max 3 times/day) when i could find 9mm ammo available on some websites.

 

[lucky4034]

Advertise and make some money... if for nothing else, but to pay for expenses. And thanks... very cool tool.

 

[Tnichols00]

OH GOD!! IM IN TROUBLE NOW!

 

[Maximinus Thrax]

That's a heck of a way to get started at INGO, welcome and thanks!

 

[gunwatcher]

are you using mongo db or something like that on the backend.
how often do you hit the sites?
i wonder how you parse the sites.


i had written a quick cron/php program to text me (max 3 times/day) when i could find 9mm ammo available on some websites.

we were lucky enough to get a database guy to help us that worked on a failed search engine in the early 2000's. He brought a ton of knowledge and we are actually running a custom "gunwatcher" version of mysql with integrate sphinx (which is how we parse 100,000's records when you search so quickly and also keep our out of pocket cost down). We also are running a lot of servers that search throughout the day. For black Friday the OLDEST data can possibly be is one hour. Most deals should be caught within 20min on average. The parsing is another program entirely written by a few other of our programmers that is several 1000's of lines of code which has data cleaning, and a ton of other useful things before it finally hits the db, which is another server in itself.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Very cool. Thanks for your hard work.

 

[kiddchaos]

we were lucky enough to get a database guy to help us that worked on a failed search engine in the early 2000's. He brought a ton of knowledge and we are actually running a custom "gunwatcher" version of mysql with integrate sphinx (which is how we parse 100,000's records when you search so quickly and also keep our out of pocket cost down). We also are running a lot of servers that search throughout the day. For black Friday the OLDEST data can possibly be is one hour. Most deals should be caught within 20min on average. The parsing is another program entirely written by a few other of our programmers that is several 1000's of lines of code which has data cleaning, and a ton of other useful things before it finally hits the db, which is another server in itself.

Awesome.

 

[MrBlue54]

Nice Job!

 

[gunwatcher]

Servers are now checking for deals 3 times as often as usual. We were able to have the black friday items on sale from J&G, Classic, and Centerfire all on the site before their emails even went out yesterday! Hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving!

 

[jh1978]

nice site, thanks!

 

[Shawno31b]

Well thanks a lot of helping me find a way to spend my money even faster! haha

 

[87bluejay]

great idea...thanks for putting the time in!

 

[Base522]

Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked.

 

[wtburnette]

Very nice link, thanks!

 

[gunwatcher]

Hey everyone! I wanted to open up the new beta site up for everyone here since you guys have helped so much, there are tons of improvements. Search should be A LOT more accurate on common words like M1A. We built our own custom database and the speed difference is insane. Also, we now have classifieds so you can search armslist and gunsinternational. Let me know what you think and hope you enjoy!


Search For and Find Guns for Sale Online - GunWatcher.com

 

[steelers87]

i just joined the site, but i saw this post a few weeks ago. I check it everyday and was able to find a good deal on a gift for my father. thanks for the time and effort your team put into this!