danluong / streetsmart

Codebase of the erstwhile Cheapass.in

Cheapass.in [streetsmart]

What's Cheapass?

Cheapass tracked prices for products on Indian e-commerce companies, and sent notifications through email and push notifications.

Launched in Jun 2014 after a small weekend hack, this project grew over several years to serve over 7600 users across India.

The website was shutdown on 30th September 2017 after 40 months of operations.

About this repo

The code in this repo powered Cheapass servers.

Requirements

• MongoDb 2.x
• Redis
• NodeJS
• GruntJS

Setup

• npm i in the root directory.
• npm i in the server folder.
• grunt in the root directory to build the frontend codebase.
• npm run start in the server folder to start the backend server.
• Register with services mentioned in .env file as per your use case.

The tooling in this project is heavily outdated and I wouldn't recommend this project to be used as it is.

Note

The code is published "as-is". I won't be able to provide any support or assistance beyond what's mentioned here.

License

Cheapass is MIT Licensed.