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Shop Lurker
« on: July 11, 2023, 09:32:34 PM »
Update: The site is live at https://shoplurker.com (no username or password required)

Hey y'all, I've spent my free time building a site that allows you to search multiple skate shops' online stores at a time. The site currently supports limited searching of 510, Atlas, DLXSF, FTC, and Low Key.

Here is a short demo: https://i.imgur.com/fIXInmr.mp4

If anyone is interesting in trying out the site, which is located at https://shoplurker.com, reply in here and I will send a username and password.

The goal is to eventually open it up to everyone, but I've yet to see how well the server handles multiple users at once.

Shout out to Michele for the QUAX (Quality Assurance / User Experience) guidance along the way.
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2023, 09:52:01 PM »
This is awesome. Big props

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2023, 09:53:45 PM »
Love everything about it. It’s like Parade but transparent and w/o agenda.

Will you basically Craigslist the site? Who will pay for it to stay up?

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2023, 09:55:03 PM »
This is awesome, 510 and Atlas are great. Id love a username and password!

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2023, 09:56:03 PM »
Sounds cool. I'd like to know if there'll be a search option for sizes. I'm not sure how that'd work in.

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2023, 11:53:30 PM »
Love everything about it. It’s like Parade but transparent and w/o agenda.

Will you basically Craigslist the site? Who will pay for it to stay up?

What was the agenda I’m intrigued
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2023, 03:14:55 AM »
To make money. Making money is seen as a suspicious offence on Slap.

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2023, 03:19:12 AM »
Sounds dope. I’d love to take a look at the site and the code.
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2023, 05:42:25 AM »
Love everything about it. It’s like Parade but transparent and w/o agenda.

Will you basically Craigslist the site? Who will pay for it to stay up?


Curious if you could expand on this. I had no idea they had an agenda.


This is a cool idea, especially with Parade closing their site.

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2023, 06:55:22 AM »
I'm in.
I was hoping something or someone could step in for paradeworld after they shut down.
This is pretty close.

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2023, 07:01:38 AM »
Sign me up

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2023, 08:30:02 AM »
usernames / passwords sent to those who requested them.

Love everything about it. It’s like Parade but transparent and w/o agenda.

Will you basically Craigslist the site? Who will pay for it to stay up?

it's running on one of the lower tiers of amazon servers available which is currently less than $10 a month, so i'll just cover it. no plans to ever charge for it.

Sounds cool. I'd like to know if there'll be a search option for sizes. I'm not sure how that'd work in.

that was the original motivation for the site as i was looking for a specific shoe in my size. unfortunately, not all of the shop sites return sizes in the first page of their search results. you have to click the individual product to get the sizes. writing the code for this extra click for every search result is doable, but it'd increase the amount of computing power and server resources.

Sounds dope. I’d love to take a look at the site and the code.

i may eventually release an open source version so people can run the site on their local computers, as that's how i initially developed it.

there's a lot of hacky things going on with the internet facing site that were built of of necessity to account for  rate limits, caching, and routing traffic to prevent request blocks. a locally hosted version doesn't require any of those.
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2023, 08:34:16 AM »
usernames / passwords sent to those who requested them.

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Love everything about it. It’s like Parade but transparent and w/o agenda.

Will you basically Craigslist the site? Who will pay for it to stay up?
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it's currently running on one of the lower tiers of amazon servers available which is currently less than $10 a month, so i'll just cover it. no plans to ever charge for it.

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Sounds cool. I'd like to know if there'll be a search option for sizes. I'm not sure how that'd work in.
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that was the original motivation for the site as i was looking for a specific shoe in my size. unfortunately, not all of the shops return sizes in their search results. you have to click the individual product to get the sizes. writing the code for this extra click for every search result is doable, but it'd increase the amount of computing power and server resources.

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Sounds dope. I’d love to take a look at the site and the code.
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i may eventually release an open source version so people can run the site on their local computers, as that's how i initially developed it.

there's a lot of hacky things going on with the internet facing site that were built of of necessity to account for  rate limits, caching, and routing traffic to prevent request blocks. a locally hosted version doesn't require any of those.

I’m building something similar as a little side project for an industry I’m certified in. It’s my way to F.I.R.E.
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2023, 08:35:09 AM »
super sick, sign me up please

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2023, 08:38:11 AM »
awesome dude, i’m in

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2023, 08:41:05 AM »
Any tips on how to get the most out of your search?
As a test I just searched Girl and 15 products came up, 3 Girl decks, 3 Girl x Lakai collab shoes, and the rest were just items with the world "girl" in their description.

I could definitely see this being an awesome site with a little more refining, keep it up!

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2023, 08:43:53 AM »
Any tips on how to get the most out of your search?
As a test I just searched Girl and 15 products came up, 3 Girl decks, 3 Girl x Lakai collab shoes, and the rest were just items with the world "girl" in their description.

I could definitely see this being an awesome site with a little more refining, keep it up!

Should be an easy Boolean fix.
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2023, 08:47:26 AM »
This is great. Am I still able to get a username and password?
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2023, 08:54:11 AM »
Any tips on how to get the most out of your search?
As a test I just searched Girl and 15 products came up, 3 Girl decks, 3 Girl x Lakai collab shoes, and the rest were just items with the world "girl" in their description.

I could definitely see this being an awesome site with a little more refining, keep it up!

that sounds about right. shop lurker is pulling from the actual shop websites using their search tool, so what you see there is what you would find by going to each of the shop sites individually and searching for "girl".

the only difference would be when a search query has multiple pages of results on a shop site. shop lurker only grabs from the first page of results (kinda incentivizes people to use the shop site).
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2023, 09:24:20 AM »
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Any tips on how to get the most out of your search?
As a test I just searched Girl and 15 products came up, 3 Girl decks, 3 Girl x Lakai collab shoes, and the rest were just items with the world "girl" in their description.

I could definitely see this being an awesome site with a little more refining, keep it up!
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that sounds about right. shop lurker is pulling from the actual shop websites using their search tool, so what you see there is what you would find by going to each of the shop sites individually and searching for "girl".

the only difference would be when a search query has multiple pages of results on a shop site. shop lurker only grabs from the first page of results (kinda incentivizes people to use the shop site).

I haven’t logged in yet, so I wouldn’t know, but are you using iframe?
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2023, 09:37:45 AM »
You're doing the lord's work

I would love a code please
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2023, 09:39:00 AM »
This is so sick
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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2023, 10:02:07 AM »
Sounds like a pretty powerful tool you've got there.

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2023, 10:14:56 AM »
Sounds cool I’d like to check it out

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2023, 10:57:52 AM »
would love to try this out

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2023, 11:01:14 AM »
recently I wanted a pair of high/mid top cupsoles but theyre expensive and rarely on sale so I made a spreadsheet with 40 skate shops (chatgpt assisted with the list) and just searched each shop's sites for 6 models I was interested in, eventually nabbed some NB440s for 45+10 shipping from familia and they were only on sale in my size on 2 of the 40 sites.

shop list below:
skate warehouse
CCS
tactics
zumiez
active ride shop
35th north
furnace
510 skate
pharmacy
cowtown
SPoT
no-comply
emage
orchard
homebase
303 boards
PLA
Prestige
Uprise
Endless Grind
561 skate
labor
kinetic
pro skateboard
premier
black sheep
familia
satellite
embark
underground
kingswell
escapist
identity
nj skateshop
westside
35th avenue
continuum
nocturnal

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2023, 11:41:50 AM »
Damn sign me up! I live in the bay so it make it easy for me to map out which shops will have what I need

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2023, 11:53:36 AM »
Looks cool, much needed after parade is gone

Can I get user/pw plz?

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2023, 11:59:05 AM »
Hey y'all, I've spent the past month and a half or so building a site that allows you to search multiple skate shops' online stores at a time. The site currently supports limited searching of 510, Atlas, DLXSF, FTC, and Low Key.

Here is a short demo: https://i.imgur.com/fIXInmr.mp4

If anyone is interesting in trying out the site, which is located at https://shoplurker.com, reply in here and I will send a username and password.

The goal is to eventually open it up to everyone, but I've yet to see how well the server handles multiple users at once.

Shout out to Michele for the QUAX (Quality Assurance / User Experience) guidance along the way.

This is rad. Might reach out to you down the line, as I do a lot of ecommerce work with skate brands and such ...

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Re: Shop Lurker
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2023, 12:15:00 PM »
That is a rad idea and I presume the idea is you will only include independent skater owned/ core shops?