More and more people are discovering that they can use InvisibleHand to automatically get the lowest price. So we’re delighted to announce that InvisibleHand has gone through the 100,000 download mark.
We’re working hard to make InvisibleHand even better with new features and improved product matching. Plus, InvisibleHand for Internet Explorer will be launching in February.
Starting from version 0.1.4 that we released minutes ago, InvisibleHand supports Google notifications. Most users love this feature but you can disable it on the options page if you want.
In the past few days more than 2000 people have installed InvisibleHand for Chrome and many have left comments with praise and suggestions. Thank you, it is very much appreciated!
We’ve updated the Chrome version of InvisibleHand to 0.1.2. The latest version includes the support of all countries (US, UK, Germany). It’s also much faster than v. 0.1!
Today Google unveiled the official Chrome extensions website, so we uploaded InvisibleHand for Chrome there. It lacks many features that Firefox’s version has, mainly UK/Germany support (yes, it’s US only at the moment), but we’re working on it. Download InvisibleHand for Google Chrome now!
We have just deployed a new website for InvisibleHand, which is easier to navigate and provides more information. Please feel free to let us know in the comments what you think about our new website.
In the meantime, we’re approaching $20 million savings in the US and are working hard on adding new countries and more retailers. We’ve just added a dozen German online shops with over 14 million product pages between them. Guess which country comes next on the list?
American users of InvisibleHand have used it to find savings of over $10 million so far. That’s a pretty impressive amount. For an idea of what that kind of money looks like, check out this nice visualisation
For an up-to-the-minute count on InvisibleHand’s performance, check out the counter on our homepage.
Roll on $100 million!
Our US servers were experiencing problems for approximately 3 hours and 13 minutes today, so many notification were not shown during this period. The problem has just been fixed. UK users should not have been affected. Sorry for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.
We hear you! We’ve been receiving requests for even more retailer coverage in InvisibleHand. Zavvi was top of the list, with its range of DVDs, music, games and electronics.
Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for lots more new retailers and products in InvisibleHand. InvisibleHand is going to become even more comprehensive!
InvisibleHand’s popularity has been putting a lot of strain on our servers. As a result there have been a few brief outages today during which US users will not have received price notifications. Our server gurus are working on the problem and normal service should be resumed very soon.
UK users are not affected.
In the mean time, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
UPDATE: The problem has been fixed. Everything should now be working as normal.
It’s been a busy day for InvisibleHand. Top productivity blog, Lifehacker, reviewed it this morning. In the afternoon, Gizmodo claimed “I’m addicted to its unobtrusive deal-finding prowess”. And now thousands of new users are downloading InvisibleHand to automatically get the lowest prices on the web.
We’ve just had to update our homepage to prevent the stats counter from running out of space…
