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PriceAdvance Upgrades

We launched some major changes to PriceAdvance yesterday. We improved merchant coverage from 15 websites to over 150 (full list), added support for shipping price, stock availability and rebate offers. Download it for Firefox (or IE) and leave a review!

PriceAdvance Passes 50,000 Firefox Installs

The holiday shopping season has been really good to us!

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PriceAdvance Launches!

We are officially out of beta today! We launched with 19 supported merchants, an advanced pricing system that does in-cart pricing (the price after you add to cart) and an Internet Explorer version on top of a new Firefox release. Check out our new demo reel below, courtesy of mostlylisa.

PriceAdvance Day 7

The last few days have been database/server optimization and scaling day! Before optimizing any of the default mySQL options we decided to test performance against a number of different database engines to see what would happen. As a side note mySQL wasn’t optimized from the beginning, we decided last minute our other box wasn’t going [...]

Priceadvance Day 3

I’m three days late to this post, but Roddy and I launched the beta of Priceadvance. Just five weeks after our Ycombinator interview (we didn’t get accepted). Priceadvance is a Firefox extension that finds better prices for products you are already viewing. Our objective is to cut out the process of doing price comparison research. [...]