Auction-House App Interest?

[Man0warr]

Someone made an Auction House website recently that didn't get much use.

http://ectunnel.org/

[tristantio]

My site (http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/) doesn't require anyone (beyond 1 person out there in the world) leave their client running.

It scans the local log, uploads to my server, and allows people from anywhere to view and search it in real time.

From there, you go to the site, search for your item, see who is selling it and message them when they're around in game.

For awhile I had an input box for users to enter their WTB/WTS directly from the web (and it would be intermingled with the /log data) but most users did not use it (and someone was putting junk in there) so I removed it for the time being.

Also has things like searching for items based on stats etc. which will narrow it down to items which match (and include their matches in the EC tunnel chat).

Try it out! (or if you like registering + posting on a forum type thing, try that ectunnel.org site as it sounds like exactly what you made).

I've been noodling the idea of upgrading the p99-patcher + realtime map application that I wrote to have Ahungry EQAuction Logger tie ins, but haven't done it yet.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Try it out! (or if you like registering + posting on a forum type thing, try that ectunnel.org site as it sounds like exactly what you made).

I've been noodling the idea of upgrading the p99-patcher + realtime map application that I wrote to have Ahungry EQAuction Logger tie ins, but haven't done it yet.

Hrm, I haven't actually made anything yet it was just a gauge to see if people would be interested. I'm getting the "no" vibe given that there have been other tried and failed attempts at this apparently =/.

[Thatt]

I didn't realize people had already tilted at this particular windmill. I guess I'll leave any peer based auction functionality out of my app.

[tristantio]

Never hurts to innovate!

I think the biggest impediment to a web based auction tool similar to forums (with posting etc.) is people are often too lazy to register for a site (even if its a super simple registration) so avoid requiring any type of registration would help.

Then if you have something that automates between game and your website (via reading /log for instance) you'd probably have people use it.

If I could, for instance, have any app I ran locally scan for my own /auctions (vs general /auctions) and parse it out + make a web based post for them without having to post on the web, it'd be useful.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Hurb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

only if you name it Auction Tracker (tm)

Kich's Auction Tracker (TM) All Other TM's Prohibited?