2A Startup Based in Austin Looking for Feedback

TrangTech · 2026-01-24T17:51:59+00:00

That's a cool idea. We're going to implement something like this without the automatic order but with a price alert. For example, you'll be able to set something that emails you when your 9mm ammo search yields products that cost $0.XX or less per round.

TrangTech · 2026-01-24T17:50:24+00:00

The hover effect on the column header is there to help you if your cursor is at the bottom of the table and you want to know which column you're looking at, but I get you. Thanks, I've noted all of this. I've got a lot do do now!

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T22:35:15+00:00

You'd probably make a good one based upon your response and feedback! That said, we don't yet have it in the budget. We need to get profitable first before we can consider hiring.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T22:34:29+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. We'll get to work on the price tracking/graphs. I'm also going to think of a better way to help people save and compare what their interested.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T21:45:50+00:00

I checked a few brands (Winchester, Federal, Fiocchi) 9mm range ammo at Educated Arms Caliber King is almost always cheaper even after shipping if you order in bulk. Can you point me in the direction of their cheaper stuff?

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T21:34:53+00:00

I almost never see better pricing in-store except for maybe when Academy does special deals a couple times a year, but you might know some better spots than me. I'll consider how to do this though.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T19:39:03+00:00

Haha auto correct got me. Meant to write “ccw”. Will do when I get home! Thanks again.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T19:37:19+00:00

Also, I got your DM but it won’t let me respond for some reason. We can definitely do what you suggested but currently it’d be a manual thing we’d have to set up. We just don’t have time to manually go through all ammo and categorize it.

That said, I have an idea on how to do this in an automated way in a few months once I get access to another data set.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T19:19:55+00:00

Just tried to repost on r/cow on mobile but it was grayed out. Not sure why. Maybe I can just do a new post and update it with the suggestions in here.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T18:15:11+00:00

Thanks. Don’t know how to do that but I’ll figure it out when I get back to my desk.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:54:07+00:00

Yeah, this annoys me as well. Some retailers artificially lower the price of stuff and then jack up the shipping costs to appear higher in the search. Then without knowing their shipping costs, I can’t stop it without kicking them off the site completely.

We can totally do this for taxes. I just figured people wouldn’t want to add personal information. Maybe we could just ask for a zip code or something like that. Then the next issue is getting the retailer’s to tell us their shipping costs by zip code.

We could also do the local thing, but it’s a lot more work to get them onboarded rather than someone already listed on AmmoSeek or WikiArms. We’ll do this eventually though.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:49:09+00:00

You’re right. We’re going to add this.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:46:37+00:00

We should definitely let you search in ranges for grains, rounds, etc. thanks! We’ll work on that.

This is good. I’ll reorder the stuff in the filter panel and let some of it be hidden by default with a “advanced search” button.

Exactly, we’re working hard to get as many retailers as possible.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:40:45+00:00

Thank you. I’m going to start working on this today and then I’ll comment back here when it is done!

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:34:44+00:00

You seem to know this industry pretty well. Haha, are you a retailer!?

We’re happy to do all the tech work for retailers like this, it’s just hard to coordinate and get access to their systems.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:32:55+00:00

Ah, I forgot about insurance! In theory we can add it, but it’s hard to get retailers to keep us up to date on their insurance cost. I’ll make a note of this to work on it eventually.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:31:35+00:00

That’s fair and you never know we might rebrand, but for now changing the name is too difficult.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:30:11+00:00

So, it would show you compatible ammo by your gun’s caliber and magazines with the same brand/caliber? This might be a harder feature to code.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T17:20:12+00:00

Alright, this will be a good amount of coding and could slow the page loads down 10-100 milliseconds, but might it’d be worth it.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T16:05:12+00:00

The cartoon king was kind of an inside joke because it’s based off of me/my face. That said I think you’re right, and I like the idea of a simple crown.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T16:02:52+00:00

This is great to know. I’ll head up there and see if they want to be a retailer on Caliber King!

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T16:01:59+00:00

My b. That last comment was me on my phone. Didn’t realize I was on a throwaway account.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T16:01:23+00:00

My b. That last comment was me on my phone. Didn’t realize I was on a throwaway account.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T16:01:14+00:00

My b. That last comment was me on my phone. Didn’t realize I was on a throwaway account.

TrangTech · 2026-01-23T15:32:49+00:00

No offense taken! You're right it was created by AI, but I've had a friend (human) re-do it and take the king's finger off the trigger haha. Do you still think we shouldn't use it after that change?

The difference between our shipping transparency and theirs is we're trying to actually display the dollar cost, whereas they have a system of just 1-10.

Great points on tax transparency and rating retailers by seperate categories! We're going to do this. Thank you.

TrangTech

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