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title: "Priceheat – simple but useful price comparison app"
date: 2006-04-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
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  - name: "2006"
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# Priceheat – simple but useful price comparison app

![text](https://web.archive.org/web/20100715210154im_/http://readwriteweb.com/images/PH_logo.gif)I love web apps that are very easy to install and use – *and* have an ongoing benefit. [Priceheat](https://web.archive.org/web/20100715210154/http://www.priceheat.com/) falls into this category, because it literally took me 10 seconds to install and I can see myself using it a lot. To install all I needed to do was drag a link from their website onto my Firefox toolbar. Priceheat is described as a “a one-click Amazon price checker, a bookmarklet, a widget, price comparison 2.0.” Despite the inevitable “2.0” moniker, what it actually does is provide a one-click way to find the cheapest price for an item. For example, it looks like I’ll be buying the new Pearl Jam album from Amazon (I don’t know what J & R is):

I asked Veronika from Priceheat what their business model is and that too is refreshingly direct:

> 1 – Make fast, simple, easy to learn tools. 2 – Get them out to users as beta, get real feedback, and tweak. 3 – Sell the product when mature to a partner with marketing muscle.

This is what I hope personalized computer agents will be like in the future – simple to install and run, plus very useful!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/priceheat_simpl.php))*