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Seems like premature publicity. Great idea that is far from being useful right now. If you actually want customers you need to prove you can provide value.

My first try was "iPhone 4" and it showed me the average price for all iPhones, from iPhone originals to broken iPhones to locked iPhones etc. That's useless. unless you can identify the specific product and give me a number, this is not useful and I'm better off googling it

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Sorry, that isn't quite as clear as it could be. Here's a link to the page you're looking for: http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/

Ah, so it's your search feature that is broken.

Just pushed a fix. Thanks for your patience.

Pushed a fix? He had a major critique of the way search works, not a minor bug report. What could you really have changed in such a short time?

I don't know but before criticizing, you could just give it a try. Now searching for "iPhone 4" suggests "Apple iPhone 4" and "Apple iPhone 4S".

If they fixed it in such a short time, it was probably a bug and they really pushed a fix...

No, we just work quickly :).

You should stop being so rude. It's hard to build something like this, especially when the input data is so noisy.

Rude? I thought I was doing them a favor. Initially I thought their system did not differentiate between specific models: that would majorly impact usefulness.

Then when he explained I realized it was just a broken search feature: a much easier thing to fix.

I hope most people here don't confuse matter of fact literalism with rudeness. This is HN after all and I'm offering free user feedback to a business, something most businesses greatly appreciate.

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