TartuWolf
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Greetings from Estonia!
While planning my first "real leather jacket" purchase I found out about Aero Leathers. One neat thing they have going for them is their "ready-to-wear" section which get's regularly updated with newly available listings. I wish all makers would have something like that..
Anyway, several things make it annoying to use. For example "SOLD" listings remaining there (could have their own section for historic purposes for example, or at least a filter to filter them out). Or the fact that the "sizing" is rather useless in terms of trying to guess the primary measurements and whether it would fit us or not.
I decided that I could make my life easier in terms of keeping an eye out on these listings and do something about the user experience of this Aero Leathers feature.
My background is data science and data engineering. And this is the skillset that I used for this endeavor.
My current proof of concept does the following:
- Scan all sections of the "ready-to-wear" page.
- Gather all listings and related important information (model, leather, measurements). Exclude "SOLD" ones.
- Save it to a file.
- Allow the user to input what criteria needs to be met (for example pit-to-pit has to be between 20" and 21" and shoulder width needs to be between 17" and 18")
- Spits out a list of listings / URLs that meet that criteria.
Currently it works only locally on my laptop as it is only a proof of concept. Has to be run manually.
IF there would be interest in this functionality from Aero themselves (already emailed them about it) I would work with them to implement it in their own page for the comfort of all customers. No answer so far.
IF I don't get any answer (or a negative one), but there would be enough interest from the lounge members - I could turn this into a full service usable by anyone online. A free website / webpage that anyone can use to easily scan the listings for suitable items.
Maybe even create a watcher functionality where you could add your email and be notified if a new listing comes up that meets your saved criteria.
Note that this could be done for other listing websites like thurston-bros.
Thoughts?
While planning my first "real leather jacket" purchase I found out about Aero Leathers. One neat thing they have going for them is their "ready-to-wear" section which get's regularly updated with newly available listings. I wish all makers would have something like that..
Anyway, several things make it annoying to use. For example "SOLD" listings remaining there (could have their own section for historic purposes for example, or at least a filter to filter them out). Or the fact that the "sizing" is rather useless in terms of trying to guess the primary measurements and whether it would fit us or not.
I decided that I could make my life easier in terms of keeping an eye out on these listings and do something about the user experience of this Aero Leathers feature.
My background is data science and data engineering. And this is the skillset that I used for this endeavor.
My current proof of concept does the following:
- Scan all sections of the "ready-to-wear" page.
- Gather all listings and related important information (model, leather, measurements). Exclude "SOLD" ones.
- Save it to a file.
- Allow the user to input what criteria needs to be met (for example pit-to-pit has to be between 20" and 21" and shoulder width needs to be between 17" and 18")
- Spits out a list of listings / URLs that meet that criteria.
Currently it works only locally on my laptop as it is only a proof of concept. Has to be run manually.
IF there would be interest in this functionality from Aero themselves (already emailed them about it) I would work with them to implement it in their own page for the comfort of all customers. No answer so far.
IF I don't get any answer (or a negative one), but there would be enough interest from the lounge members - I could turn this into a full service usable by anyone online. A free website / webpage that anyone can use to easily scan the listings for suitable items.
Maybe even create a watcher functionality where you could add your email and be notified if a new listing comes up that meets your saved criteria.
Note that this could be done for other listing websites like thurston-bros.
Thoughts?