jeffalo / is.wasteof.money

A website to tell you if something is a waste of money.

Hi there 👋

I'm Jeffalo, I got into coding through Scratch, and my life has changed since.

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is.wasteof.money's Issues

typing suggestions

right now, you have to type something exactly how it is spelt in the items array. perhaps this could be improved by, for example, checking case insensitive. Edit: added in new commit

something else i was thinking about is finding the closest matc

mockup:

i'm not sure how to do this but im sure stack overflow does

custom domain

right now we just get rickrolled which is depressing so lets fix that

hide explanation div if theres no explanation

self explanitory,

this is an issue because it overflows off of the screen and then theres a useless scroll bar

i would know how to do this but with the ternary inline ? stuff im not sure how to do it

what the F*** you say about berock!?

mobile support

yes its time for this.

mobile support

adjust page to be more mobile support

i cant css

please help

automatically focus textbox

self explantory

No issue, I would like to suggest something lol.

My suggestion is that you make some sort of email system.

changing how items are stored + more item states

right now an item can be either:
free
a waste
or not a waste

i was thinking we should have more states. for example https could say 'sometimes'

A problem with the last PR

In the last PR, I noticed I used a deprecated event listener. Can you change it? I used this StackOverflow answer. Use the second snippet (I used the first one), or use something else. This code needs to run when the innerHTML gets changed:

if (!explanation.innerHTML) {
     explanation.style.display = "none";
} else {
     explanation.removeAttribute("style");
};

make a better ui

something like dev.wasteof.money

Naming of `price` variable.

Variable current can determine true, false, or free, and not the price itself.

Perhaps renaming to status for better clarity could help?

Update:
Since the variable is "true" when waste and "false" when not, perhaps better name is isWaste?

Typing suggestion always shows up.

When you type in "Minecraft for Nintendo 3DS", the typing suggestion does not go away. Also, "yes" does not show up, unless you click on the typing suggestion.

33, 65, 129, 257 etc searches cause fuzzy search issues

multiples like 33, 65, 129, 257, 513, etc... letter words return a list of all(?) possible similar results.

this appears to be a bug in fuse.js, however it probably could be fixed on our end.

they claim it's been fixed but it doesn't seem like it has.

let click on suggestions

suggestions are boring let people click on suggestions to automaticaly select them

The word list still uses "YouTube Red" rather than YouTube Premium

but it is still a waste of money ngl

use fuzzy string matching

calculate the levenshtein distance to see which item has the best score compared to the user input

[Idea] Permalink

My idea is, for example, when you go to https://is.wasteof.money/#iphone, 'iphone' will automatically get filled in for you, in the <input> element. This is not hard; you can use location.hash.

suggest items here

suggest items to be added here

please check the word list before suggesting something too similar.

example:

what i want added: minecraft

what should it say: not a waste

explanation: (optional) minecraft is fun game worth every penny