InvisibleHand Blog

Watch this space for the latest news about InvisibleHand project. We'll blog here about new retailers, new countries and new features.

InvisibleHand is Hiring

InvisibleHand is growing fast, with over 150,000 downloads, over $50 million of savings found, and plenty of new features to add. So we’re looking to a new add a brilliant new developer to our London-based team. You’ll need:

  • Extensive Ruby development experience
  • Experience building highly scalable service oriented architectures
  • Agile development
  • SQL database experience, using multimillion row datasets, preferably including MySQL
  • Experience developing in Javascript
  • Good understanding of HTML and CSS
  • Strong quantitative and algorithmics a plus
  • Windows development experience an advantage
  • Browser extension development experience an advantage
  • Retail application experience an advantage
  • 3+ years of experience required

InvisibleHand is part of Forward Innovations. By joining InvisibleHand, you get all the perks which go along with being part of Forward Innovations, including:

  • Fantastic working environment; flexible hours, casual dress-code, top spec computer, Aeron chairs, free fruit and treats everyday!
  • Flexible benefits package; a contributory pension scheme and over 20 options including health insurance, child care support and gym membership.
  • A multi-cultural team; we have team members from over 20 different countries. Our ‘pot luck’ evenings where people cook their national dish are legendary.
  • A beautiful office; furnished with massage chairs, a pool table, foosball table, PS3, Wii and a draft beer machine.
  • We like to have fun; regular company get-togethers and a spectacular Christmas party (we’ve taken the entire company to Las Vegas 3 times!)

Please send your details to jobs@forward.co.uk

InvisibleHand Passes 100,000 Downloads

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.

InvisibleHand for Chrome now supports Google

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!

InvisibleHand for Google Chrome is updated to 0.1.2

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!

InvisibleHand available for Google Chrome!

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!

New website for InvisibleHand

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?

InvisibleHand Finds $10 Million of Savings for US Users

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!

US servers are up again

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.

InvisibleHand Now Covers Zavvi

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!

Brief InvisibleHand Outage In US

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.