For my next project I plan to recreate ItsTooHard, since the site doesn't exist anymore and SG puzzle makers are looking for something similar.
Puzzle creators would love you for this....and thanks for the train oc.
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I assume it's because the owner let the domain name expire. Can't really fault them that much if so. The past few years have been hard on almost everyone and I don't remember itstoohard ever requesting donations.
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Nooooo I totally missed that.
I wanted to back up puzzles I made, but I always had time for it later
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Looks good. My first impression is you should change the Date Updated search toggle to a slider like Price is, so you can search for deals in the last hour, or last week, or whatever.
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Thank you for the great idea, added it to my To-Do list.
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Nicely done! Applause!
A few comments:
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A feature that I personally would appreciate - retaining the "Game search box" on the Game page AFTER doing a search and then clicking on an individual game. For example, I type "Darksiders Genesis" and then click (without opening a new tab) to go to its individual page. If I then want to repeat the search for another game, I need to back track to the previous page. It would be nice to be able to search from the results page.
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Here are a couple more, um, discount venders - eneba and hrk in case you want to add to the "Stores" page and increase the breadth of your search.
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A nice feature might be to allow users to select WHICH (with "All" as an option) which vendors to include in the search. I know there are quite a few people, for example that want games from Steam, Humble and perhaps Fanactical.
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On the "Best Deals by Store", it would be nice to have some [perhaps hover-based] explanation of how best is determined. Also perhaps some user-selectable options like "Biggest discount" and "Largest percentage". Also perhaps a "More" option at the bottom to open a distinct page with a variable number of maximum results. Also on this page, the ability to see more vendors - i.e., whichever are currently being used when searching for games.
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Thank you for the nice comments and for taking your time to look around the site and point insightful improvements.
- Have thought of this when I was implementing the search bar on the home page, noticed other sites do it like you suggested, but in the end decided not to do it for some reason. I will consider it again, since it looks like it will be useful to the users.
- Yes, this was planned from the beginning but after some other stores breaking down (stop fetching prices as it should), I kind of gave up and said if there are at least some regular visitors I will add more stores. So I might add more stores soon.
- Amazing idea! Will put it on my To-Do list immediately.
- Good suggestion, will consider it.
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I should have been a little more patient before sending my comments. In regards to my #4, I see that on the Deals page you already have "By percentage sorting". So that's one of the two I mentioned. You have by price... by discount %.... perhaps biggest discount amount might be useful to some? So a $60 game with an 80% discount might not sort to the top of the "By price" or "By percentage" search, but with a savings of $48, it would surely float to the top in this search.
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just a small feedback: i think that the font is too small for me.
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Thanks for the feedback, the font of the site (the regular text) is around 14. and the font on SG is around 13, but I understand your point, maybe the colors or the thickness of the font is the problem. Will try to readjust it.
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I am aware that there are already existing better similar sites, this is more of a hobby project than anything else that I like working on in my free time.
I was about to say a few things but then I read this.
Wishing you all the best!
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Great Effort and a great job."Isthereanydeal" and "AllKeyShop" have helped me save cash this year.Another site is welcomed,especially,if its not for money but as a Hobby and if the dev is open for feedback and suggestions.I wish you goodluck.Stay Blessed.
P.S:I bookmarked your site two seconds after reading the post.Will visit it almost everyday,so to see how it developsand to save a few dollars every now and then and Especially,for the giveaways :)
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Thank you, I appreciate it that you bookmarked my site, will try to improve it.
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Very cool project! I am also currently working on some side projects ^^
Feedback: Maybe synchronize the change of "Featured Games" and "Most Popular Games". It is a bit irritating if they change one after another.
A question of personal interest if you don’t mind: What is the main focus of your bachelor program?
Since there are many different fields in computer science, I was wondering which one you chose for your bachelor program, e.g., "Software and Information Engineering" or "Computer Engineering" or "Media Informatics and Visual Computing" and so on.
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Thank you, will try to synchronize them.
The main focus of my bachelor program was "Software Engineering and Information Technologies".
What are you currently working on ? I would love to check out your side projects, if they are not private :)
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Nice, then you had the same focus I currently have ^^
One of my side projects is a managable database of all your owned games accross all pc services.
But it is still in the work and private for now ^^
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Just to make sure you are aware of it, but there are already solutions for that. Best one in my opinion is Playnite, also GOG client (Galaxy) has modules for the same purpose (aggregating games even if you don't own them on GOG).
That should not stop you from making your own tool if you're up to, I just wouldn't want you to discover too late that something already exists.
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In fact, I didn't know about Playnite. It doesn't have all features I wanted to implement but it has a lot I wished for.
Thank you very much for notifying me that this exists. Now I can dedicate my time towards other aspects of this and other projects ^^
Huge thanks~
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Hey! Is it intentional that I currently seem to be able to enter GAs for games I already own? I left right after testing that entering was possible, but if you don't want people winning games they already have, you may want to address this.
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Thanks for addressing this, I am aware of this, but I haven't implemented functionality to check user's steam games (yet), so I will let it happen for now. I added this functionality to my To-Do list.
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Ah, if you're already aware, then great. Thanks for the feedback! :)
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nice site - congrats
just made a ticket - found a mistake: celeste for 48cents
if the site will work well i will use it often ... atm i am looking at allkeyshop - is this good? or is it stupid to look cheapest deal at allkeyshop?
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Those keyshops can be good, mostly private resellers (I understood). Some have protection you can add on top of the key price if one is revoked or something.
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Sorry, I missed your comment yesterday.
Thank you for the kind words and for reporting the bug, I will fix that today.
It happens sometimes because I created an algorithm to find the steam games on other stores by name, and sometimes if multiple games have the same word(s) in the title, it can get confused. I will try to improve it.
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I don't know what is available in the api, but if it is available and if you are not already using it, Steam's app id would perhaps be a better choice for identify games.
- Of course this would not work for games on other platforms with the same text title.
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Perhaps, simply posting the app id in the display results would help distinguish between 2 titles with the same title. So results would show something like this:
Celeste Steam-id 504230
Celeste Steam-id 378591 (This is just an example, it does not exist on Steam)
Although the "Celeste" error is that it points to "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms - Celeste's Starter Pack DLC".
Getting back to point #1, opening this up to include non-Steam platforms with the ability to search on only specific platforms, would be a whole new level of complications! :) Something like this (cheapdigitaldownload):
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OP is not linking to those sites, OP is linking to their site.
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And linking to a website that aggregates key re-sellers is a way to circumvent rule to not link to re-seller sites.
This is the reason why it's not allowed to post links to gg.deals.
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I have a suggestion,
add an import wishlist feature
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Great suggestion, I added it to my To-Do List and I will try to implement it when I will be working on the giveaway(s) restriction functionality since they both require retrieving user's steam data (games & wishlist).
Thank you for the contribution.
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The site is really good, especially as you're working alone and you don't spend all your day on it.
I noticed 2 things that you might consider tweaking.
Logo at the top of the browser (at the card) has a background (that little gamepad). Usually, it's in .png and the background is invisible.
On the main page there is information about 12 giveaways, but only 3 are active. From my user experience it is a little misleading. Perhaps being a little more specific here would be beneficial, but that's up to you.
Like you mentioned, I'm already using another site like this and I have invested too much time and effort into it. However, if current site annoys me somehow or something, it's good to have an alternative. Good luck with this and your next project, you're definitely skilled :)
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Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot.
About the suggestions:
- Hmm I don't think I understand what you mean, the logo is transparent, the gamepad is part of the logo.
- Good point, I will change that info/row to Active Giveaways and display only those numbers.
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Perhaps that was your intention, but I see the gamepad is inside a black background (inside of the gamepad is totally fine, outside is what I have in mind). I tried it on Brave, Chrome and Edge browser using both dark and bright themes.
There's also a possibility that this happens only on my PC, then ignore it please, my custom settings might affect it and it would be hard to recreate. Anyway, have a good day :)
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Feature request:
- add a way to directly link to game pages by their steam app id, without having to search by name
For example, ITAD has a similar feature: https://isthereanydeal.com/steam/app/1151640 which will redirect to the more SEO-friendly url
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Good idea and it's not hard (time consuming) to implement, but do you think many people will use it ?
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it makes it easier to integrate the site in other places by directly linking using the appid
and it's fairly common thing to implement (steamdb, protondb, gg.deals, etc.) all support linking by steam appid, you can still have the SEO optimized urls a simple redirect will do (I imagine it's as simple as adding a few lines to your site routing logic, since you must already be tracking the appid internally)
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looks nice and is fast. how does it compare to https://gg.deals/ (pros/cons) which aims to do the same?
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Thank you.
My site is made as a hobby, by one developer (me) and I'm afraid it cannot compare with the existing giants, at least not at the moment. If I continue to work on it and improve it, maybe one day it will be shoulder to shoulder (I can only dream of this haha).
Maybe one pro in this moment of time is the giveaways section I created (inspired from SG), so people can visit it often and join the new giveaways that I create.
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your site is really well done actually, and thanks for your reply.
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this is pretty neat. I might need to go back to this and make an account and see if its something I would use
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good effiort! regardless of eventual answer keep it up! do you get kickback of any sort>?
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Thanks! Thanks to this project I graduated from university so I think that's the best reward I got from it (besides the knowledge I gain while working on it).
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First impressions:
Easy to see, some of these sites put so much information that it's overwhelming (I'm looking at you, IsThereAnyDeal). Surely I'll give it a good try when Summer Sale comes!
Thanks for the train!
Edit: I ended registering ^_^
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Thank you, I will try to implement a news/blog section so I can post information about the next Steam Sales, Stores Sales, Bundles and Free games.
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Looks nice! One suggestion - add a Steam link to giveaway games. I see a Steam icon, and it lights up when I hover over it, but it's not a link. Many of us on sites like SteamGifts aren't going to remember whether or not we own one or more of the games being given away unless we can check our account first.
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Thanks!
Good suggestion, I will add it to my To-Do list and implement it in the next update.
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signed up, the site looks good! gratz!!
if you would add the possibility to track prices (filter) only for games that are on the Steam user wishlist, then it would be the greatest site!
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Thank you!
I will definitely try to implement something related to the Steam user wishlist soon. Will post an update when that happens.
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I prefer link deleted but it lacks the comparison to Steam full-price (percentage discount)
The link deleted of yours site doesn't mean anything if not compare to Steam full-price
For example gray shop name deleted currently has 73% discount (compare to Steam full price) is meaningful than 0% of themself
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Hi, thanks for pointing that out.
I have been thinking about this price difference/discount value for a long time, it didn't seem completely right from the start, but stick with it since I didn't keep the original price of the game anywhere just the current one and the previous. But now that you mentioned that I can compare every price with the original Steam price (which I can get anytime from steam store api), makes little bit more sense.
I will try to implement additional field with this information or replace the old price different (discount) field completely.
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Hi,
Links to websites with re-seller offers are not allowed. You will need to remove this gg.deals link.
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Hello fellow Steam Gifters,
I have been working on a personal project that I would like to share with you. Little backstory first.
Around 1 year ago, I graduated from university in the field of computer science and engineering and for my graduation project/thesis I developed a web site that tracks Steam game prices across a variety of stores, including Steam and third-party resellers, the site also includes other features that I will describe below.
Initially this was only a local private project (it wasn't hosted/published on the internet), but after graduation I decided to buy a domain name and server and to see if my project would work well in the real world. After learning deployment of web applications, fixing bugs, improving some features, I was ready to share my project with the world.
There are still bugs (some store price checkers stopped working), but I brought this project to a state where I am proud to share it with you, I hope you won't be too harsh on me :)
Here is list of all features on the site:
Link: EasyGamePrices (I removed the direct link to the site, because I was broking a rule I didn't know existed)
If you wanna check my site anyway you can search the name on your favorite search engine (Google, Bing, etc...)
I am aware that there are already existing better similar sites, this is more of a hobby project than anything else that I like working on in my free time.
For making this project I took inspiration from SteamGifts, SteamTrades, Reddit and other game price aggregators sites.
Thank you for your time, here is small Train, also there are active steam giveaways in the giveaways [section] (Link removed, if you wanna check out the giveaways on the site, search the name of the site + 'giveaways').
For my next project I plan to recreate ItsTooHard, since the site doesn't exist anymore and SG puzzle makers are looking for something similar.
Edit 1: Didn't expect this kind of awesome reception. Thank you everyone for visiting my site, the compliments and for giving me feedback on how to improve it. It really made my day. I will try to improve the site and hopefully it will contain all of the suggested features in the comments.
Edit 2: Links removed, I'm sorry, I didn't know I was breaking any rules.
Edit 3: I will keep you updated when the new features that the SG members suggested are implemented on the site.
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