kurdt_the_goat
15th September 2014, 02:34 PM
Hey guys
I've been working on this site for the last couple months and finally just made it live. The url is http://transformersearch.com/
This is the basic premise of the site:
People submit toys & accessories.... i approve the listing and it appears on the site.
Once on the site, people can post corrections to data, submit photos and comment on a listing (reviews).
Registering to the site is only necessary if you want to submit anything - and also has the benefit of being able to choose between Robot/Alt mode for listing pictures and saving your name etc for reviews.
There's sites like this already but the difference with mine is that it has a very powerful and fast filtering system to easily find toys & accessories. The filters adjust based on what you've already selected, to limit further choices to only available options. Accessories are linked to toys, toys are linked to repaints and so on so you can jump around the place quite easily.
I haven't recently tested the registration/submission process but it should be working - it was a few weeks ago!
Let me know if you see some odd behaviour. One thing i haven't been able to do better is when you submit a photo, the confirmation message is displayed in the photos tab (which isn't displayed on page reload - you have to click it again).
This was all a huge undertaking and quite frankly i'm pretty well sick of it by now! But - with my entire collection in there as a starting point, the bulk of my workload is done. So, i'll see if people are interested in submitting themselves and, provided it doesn't turn into a massive pile of work, will continue with the upkeep of it all - but with no promises! :D
Particularly the accessories, they are a massive job - you can see from what's in there already, that accessories account for 2.5x the amount of toys, and even with only 500 listings, it's still pretty hard to identify something!
Don't get too attached to the accessories feature then :p In the future, it may be that i choose to limit accessories to only G1/2 entries... after all that's what most people are interested in. And that'll keep it a light(ish) workload and make the search worthwhile (there won't be 20 entries for Optimus Prime Left Fist etc).
Let me know what you think! But, i'm hoping to take a break for a bit and so any submissions, suggestions and fixes, well i'll get to them when i can :)
Oh and one last thing, at the bottom of the site is a link to an Australian Release Toy Search ... if you click that you'll get an extra option to filter by Released in: Australia. With the way Hasbro's going with releases, one day that might be handy!
I've been working on this site for the last couple months and finally just made it live. The url is http://transformersearch.com/
This is the basic premise of the site:
People submit toys & accessories.... i approve the listing and it appears on the site.
Once on the site, people can post corrections to data, submit photos and comment on a listing (reviews).
Registering to the site is only necessary if you want to submit anything - and also has the benefit of being able to choose between Robot/Alt mode for listing pictures and saving your name etc for reviews.
There's sites like this already but the difference with mine is that it has a very powerful and fast filtering system to easily find toys & accessories. The filters adjust based on what you've already selected, to limit further choices to only available options. Accessories are linked to toys, toys are linked to repaints and so on so you can jump around the place quite easily.
I haven't recently tested the registration/submission process but it should be working - it was a few weeks ago!
Let me know if you see some odd behaviour. One thing i haven't been able to do better is when you submit a photo, the confirmation message is displayed in the photos tab (which isn't displayed on page reload - you have to click it again).
This was all a huge undertaking and quite frankly i'm pretty well sick of it by now! But - with my entire collection in there as a starting point, the bulk of my workload is done. So, i'll see if people are interested in submitting themselves and, provided it doesn't turn into a massive pile of work, will continue with the upkeep of it all - but with no promises! :D
Particularly the accessories, they are a massive job - you can see from what's in there already, that accessories account for 2.5x the amount of toys, and even with only 500 listings, it's still pretty hard to identify something!
Don't get too attached to the accessories feature then :p In the future, it may be that i choose to limit accessories to only G1/2 entries... after all that's what most people are interested in. And that'll keep it a light(ish) workload and make the search worthwhile (there won't be 20 entries for Optimus Prime Left Fist etc).
Let me know what you think! But, i'm hoping to take a break for a bit and so any submissions, suggestions and fixes, well i'll get to them when i can :)
Oh and one last thing, at the bottom of the site is a link to an Australian Release Toy Search ... if you click that you'll get an extra option to filter by Released in: Australia. With the way Hasbro's going with releases, one day that might be handy!