Hi, my name is Taylor and I have an Acro addiction... and I'm also a software engineer. For a while I've been trying to think of an app/website that I could build that helps us reefers with our acro obsession.
I stumbled across https://acroporaguide.com/ the other day and found it nice but the search functionality is very limited and there are lots of corals missing. Im not trying to bash whoever made the Acropora Guide website, I think it serves its purpose as a catalog, but I want more.
I am setting out to build a full catalog of SPS corals with in-depth elastic search and filtering.
The corals will be automagically scraped from various vendors as to provide links to where you can buy these corals. So when a new coral is listed on a vendors website, it will automatically be added to the catalog.
Users will also be able to sign up for notifications when a specific coral is available for sale from a specific vendor if it is out of stock.
I will also provide links to Reef2Reef conversations that revolve around the specific named coral.
Users will be able to rate and comment on vendors and corals.
Think about it like a Yelp for SPS corals and vendors but with the added functionality of a full catalog and links to where you can buy them.
If you developed https://acroporaguide.com/ maybe we can work together?
What do you think?
Should I quit now?
Any other cool ideas I could throw in there?
Not sure what I would call it, ideas?
I stumbled across https://acroporaguide.com/ the other day and found it nice but the search functionality is very limited and there are lots of corals missing. Im not trying to bash whoever made the Acropora Guide website, I think it serves its purpose as a catalog, but I want more.
I am setting out to build a full catalog of SPS corals with in-depth elastic search and filtering.
The corals will be automagically scraped from various vendors as to provide links to where you can buy these corals. So when a new coral is listed on a vendors website, it will automatically be added to the catalog.
Users will also be able to sign up for notifications when a specific coral is available for sale from a specific vendor if it is out of stock.
I will also provide links to Reef2Reef conversations that revolve around the specific named coral.
Users will be able to rate and comment on vendors and corals.
Think about it like a Yelp for SPS corals and vendors but with the added functionality of a full catalog and links to where you can buy them.
If you developed https://acroporaguide.com/ maybe we can work together?
What do you think?
Should I quit now?
Any other cool ideas I could throw in there?
Not sure what I would call it, ideas?