The Mac Index
Compare cheapest Apple product prices worldwide
I posted on Reddit, HackerNews and ProductHunt, but none really get much hit, but on next day, ProductHunt reposted the product as featured post, and it went to second place, before settling to third place at the end of the day.
It was very well received that my website crashed and I had to scramble and push out updates all night. There's something you would have never anticipated once your website is live to global audience.
After fews day, I also just learnt that a lot of tech news site had already written about the product on their own as soon as it hit ProductHunt. Subsequently, TheNextWeb reached out to cover it.
About 30+ other tech news from all over the world has written about it. We received about 100k view after a week.
At a meeting with a girl I was interested in, who was going to Melbourne and buy iPad for her relative, she told me that it usually works out cheaper to buy there after tax-refund. I was at first skeptical about this due to my assumption about electronic prices in Australia, but after scraping latest data, turns out she's right.
My first version MVP didn't account for this new revelation yet. So I set out to create a new version based around this fact. I added each country sales tax and refund rate. I decided to rebuild everything from scratch, and scrap the pricing table, in favor of cards view.
First version of The Mac Index was created around April 2016. I posted an update on my Facebook profile, wrote a Medium article, and announced on Twitter. It was mildly-received.
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