Camelcamelcamel is a website that tracks prices of products sold on
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
. Founded by Daniel Green in 2008 and developed by Cosmic Shovel Inc.
In 2015 it was voted as the most popular
price tracking tool among
Lifehacker
''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on 31 January 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is owned by Ziff Davis. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including Microsoft Windows, M ...
readers.
Due to a failure of three hard drives on the database server on January 26, 2019, the service was unavailable for several days. The service itself listed a breakdown of the costs needed to recover the service.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
they agreed to Amazon's request to stop tracking prices in select regions.
According to Cosmic Shovel Inc., the overall maintenance of camelcamelcamel amounts to about $11,000 per month.
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Comparison shopping websites