altctrl – after devworld
i received a lot of feedback after presenting altctrl at http://devworld.ro . acting upon it will take some time. in the meantime i list here my priorities for it:
1. make the updates of the extension work. as all of you know, updates through mozilla,org website doesn’t work as it is still listed as experimental due to lack of reviews, so i will host the extension myself and make it updatable. i need https and run sha1 on it, so i guess i will move it to its own domain [https://altctrl.e-forum.ro most probably].
2. add preferences. this is related to the fact that some users have a set of preferred shops and they do not want to search for prices at the other shops. also it is good because the list of supported online shops will grow and maybe users won’t like to search for all anyway.
3. the results will be ordered by price in ascending order.
4. the product that is searched for will be twitted anonymously on my account [jgabios] untill i find a better one , i see altctrl is taken on twitter . i am new to twitter and “i haven’t absorbed that yet [cusack on high fidelity]“. i also think i will make a web page where you can see what people are shopping for.
many other things will come, for now it is enough. back to work.