Plugin Deals

3 minutes ago, mibby said:

I don't know if he's a "serious company" or not. But he's certainly NOT a "newbie developer"!

Hey, we're all friendly here and just "deal" addicts looking for our next fix.  Start a new thread and post your site!  😎

My reaction was exaggerated no matter what so I recognize it and feel sorry about it.

I'd like to apologize to Music Software Deals. Had no idea there is a serious company behind it. Should have looked more in details at the project; the silly crawling thing is what made me react, it's my mistake and I ask apologies for all my behavior. I hope my sincere apologies are accepted and wish you good luck with this project.

On 1/26/2022 at 1:34 AM, Doug Rintoul said:

Then remove the thumbs down you gave out. 

It's been removed. 

On 1/26/2022 at 1:20 AM, Doug Rintoul said:

All of us have around here have been scouring  the web for deals for along time now and we have never heard of you. Why do you think that musicsoftwaredeals.com is even aware of your site? I just read the thread on VI-Control where the development of this is being discussed. I see nothing that looks like any copying is happening. In fact the website is being developed with from feedback from multiple users giving suggestions. And the developer seems to be very responsive. Can you say the same?

PS. You do realize that deleting your posts does not delete what I quoted. The damage is done.

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31 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

I think you might have an issue with bitterness. Also,  the name you're using, Plugin Deals is a pretty popular site that posts here and has been around for probably a decade, so I think your claims of being original are more than a bit overstated.  Instead of being bitter, if you care, try to build a better site than the other ones. That's all. No one is going to be impressed with your claim of originality on a concept that has been done for at least two decades. You're way off on this stuff. But I  think the more important thing is that you shouldn't be so clearly bitter. Dead serious. Life is too short. If you want to compete, compete, but you're assertion that you were the first to do this is ridiculously off. I've been giving plugin and sample developers advice going back to the early 00s and such sites and sections of forums have existed for a long time and your name clearly infringes on Plugin Deals trademark.  

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26 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

And how do you know it is being copied. Ever hear of parallel development?

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30 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Your post has already turned my off of your site. I was tempted to look at it but not anymore.

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2 hours ago, Music Software Deals said:

I think this might be first time someone has attempted to fully automate this. Obviously its not super easy - creating the scrapers isn't too hard, but the tough part is managing the structure of the information we receive to ensure its uniform from all sources so that it can be correctly displayed.

That's the part we're working on right now to ensure that as we add a new source, we have the right rules in place to restructure the title, apply the right manufacturer (some people use "Harrison" whereas others use "Harrison Consoles" for example) etc.  All of this is totally do-able, it just takes some time in the beginning to get setup properly

please delete

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