This is a page out of Slick Deals' playbook. (https://slickdeals.net/deal-alerts/)
Problem: I find myself incessantly refreshing the classifieds 10-20 times/day. I'm sure I'm not the only one. It would be nice to have the ability to create a custom alert when a matching item gets listed matching some search criteria.
The process would look like this:
A user has an item he wants, so he creates a classified alert with the search string and matching Classifieds section. To prevent abuse and to not use too many resources, you could limit each user to say 3 classified alerts.
Each new for sale classified posting would be matched against each user's classified alert search strings. Any match would trigger an email that goes out to the user with a link to the relevant classified ad.
Although each post would trigger many searches, this could be optimized. Any increased server resources may be offset by fewer users who are hammer-refreshing all day long.
Problem: I find myself incessantly refreshing the classifieds 10-20 times/day. I'm sure I'm not the only one. It would be nice to have the ability to create a custom alert when a matching item gets listed matching some search criteria.
The process would look like this:
A user has an item he wants, so he creates a classified alert with the search string and matching Classifieds section. To prevent abuse and to not use too many resources, you could limit each user to say 3 classified alerts.
Each new for sale classified posting would be matched against each user's classified alert search strings. Any match would trigger an email that goes out to the user with a link to the relevant classified ad.
Although each post would trigger many searches, this could be optimized. Any increased server resources may be offset by fewer users who are hammer-refreshing all day long.
