Show HN: A free ISBN/UPC/EAN database and API with 30+ million items

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by outpan • 12 years ago

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joshwa• 12 years ago

What are your data sources?

outpan4• 12 years ago

user contributions, purchased databases, paid moderation and web crawlers.

noir_lord• 12 years ago

I happened to have a can of soft drink in my had so I punched the UPC in and it was not found (unsurprisingly, it's a small northern soft drink company in the UK) so I hit Add Product and then it asked for a signup.

I think you'd get better buy in if you could add the product first then sign-up or not have to signup at all but put those entries into some kind of moderation system.

chatmasta• 12 years ago

Cool! I think a cool idea for a related service would be crowdsourced local price comparison. Take pictures of items in store with an app, which uploads to your servers to do OCR/mturk and get the UPC. In exchange, users get coupons. Then when they want to buy an item, they go to your website to find the store selling it for the cheapest.

It would add accountability to the claims by big retail chains that they "match any price."

motyar• 12 years ago

Great! Is there any call limit?

outpan4• 12 years ago

Up to 2000 calls/minute. We will hopefully increase this soon.

Show HN: A free ISBN/UPC/EAN database and API with 30+ million items

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