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An early happy 2008 to all Uberpeeps!

I was lucky enough to snag 3 Bags of Crap (my first BoC's!!) on Woot.com on Christmas, and it got me thinking - would it be possible to make a Woot-like site with Ubercart?

(assuming everyone here knows about Woot.com.... if not, thanks Wikipedia!)

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Re: Woot.com style site?

Very interesting idea they've got there. I'm going to have to keep an eye on it.

It would take a lot of custom code to emulate the stuff I see on the front page. You would need some kind of scheduler to publish a particular node for the day. I think workflow-ng, nodequeue, and a cron job ought to be able to handle that.

Gathering statistics for each product would require more custom code too. I think all of the reports we have in Übercart are more about the store as a whole.

So, yeah, it's possible. But it'd be a lot of hard work.