PriceHunt.com
As the founder and lead technologist for PriceHunt.com, I spearheaded an innovative price comparison portal. The platform's core strength was its real-time price comparison engine, complemented by features for best deal discovery and detailed product comparisons. The backend, built on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, featured an automated system for fetching and updating prices twice daily. The sophisticated web scraping infrastructure utilized Docker containers for the entire scraping technology, enabling dynamic scaling at runtime based on server load, and routed requests through HAProxy over multiple Tor and VPN connections to ensure data robustness. The frontend was developed using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and other JavaScript libraries. A notable feature was the AI-driven generation of product descriptions using Mistral-Nemo, based on basic product information gathered from the web. The platform also diligently tracked price history for products.
Key contributions: I conceptualized, architected, and managed the end-to-end development of the platform, including the real-time data aggregation, AI-powered content generation, containerized scraping infrastructure with dynamic scaling, and overall system performance.
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