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Chekiprice VS Yaoota

Alexander — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:50:00 +0000

The e-commerce price comparison landscape in Africa is becoming increasingly competitive, as platforms like Yaoota solidify their foothold. However, a new entrant, Chekiprice , is gaining attention through its expansion into key markets.

Is Chekiprice the new Yaoota?

Price comparison websites have transformed the way we shop for goods and services. Platforms such as Yaoota have gained substantial popularity in markets like Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and the UAE, providing price comparisons on a wide range of products at competitive prices. However, a new competitor has emerged – Chekiprice.

Chekiprice: Expanding Its Reach

Yaoota primarily targets the markets of Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and the UAE, while Chekiprice expands its reach to include Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. This broader geographic coverage provides Chekiprice with a competitive advantage, allowing it to cater to a larger and more diverse customer base.

Key Differences

To gain insight into the potential impact of Chekiprice, let's evaluate it in comparison to Yaoota across key areas:

Market Reach: Chekiprice's broad geographic reach, which spans across South Africa and the United Kingdom, enables it to access a larger potential customer base in these regions. This expanded reach increases the company's opportunities for growth and market penetration.

Product Range: Both platforms offer a diverse range of products. However, Chekiprice focuses on a wider range of products, including furniture, medicine, and fashion products.

Pricing: At Chekiprice, we prioritize providing competitive pricing to appeal to budget-conscious consumers. Our pricing is carefully curated to ensure fairness and impartiality.

User Experience: Checkiprice offers a more elegant user experience than Yaoota, which was written before the existence of modern frameworks like React.

Payment Methods: Chekiprice employs individuals to identify the payment methods accepted by each store, providing accurate information about the available payment options. This information is typically listed at the end of the product description, along with details about the store's terms and return policy.

The Future of Price Comparison in Africa

The rivalry between Chekiprice and Yaoota is likely to drive innovation and benefit consumers. As both platforms expand their services and offerings, we can expect increased competition, leading to lower prices, better product selection, and improved customer experiences.

Ultimately, the success of these platforms will depend on their ability to adapt to changing consumer preferences, leverage technology effectively, and build strong relationships with users.

Bun - Faster Javascript Runtime Than Node and Deno

Alexander — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:31:00 +0000

Bun is a new JavaScript runtime written from scratch that is faster than node and deno. Bun is still in its beta stages. Unlike node and deno which use the V8 engine bun uses the JavaScriptCore from WebKit which is generally faster and more memory efficient. Bun is written in ZIG which is a low programming language like Rust and C++.

Bun re-thinks the whole node package management structure of using node_modules to store all packages. You'll just need to use bun, Instead of 1,000 node_modules for development.

Bun Features

Web API's such as fetch, WebSocket, and ReadableStream are build into Bun.
Built from scratch JavaScript/TypeScript/JSX transpiler.
A JavaScript & CSS bundler
A Task runner for package.json scripts
A package manager that is compatible with NPM.

Getting started with Bun

To get start with bun you need to install bun using the bun install script.

curl https://bun.sh/install | bash

In order to use bun command on terminal add the following environment to your .bashrc in_ $HOME/.bashrc. _

$HOME/.bashrc


...



# Bun environment variables

export BUN\_INSTALL=\"$bun\_install

export PATH=\"\$BUN\_INSTALL/bin:\$PATH

Commands Overview

Installing packages:

bun install

Add package:

bun add react

Remove package:

bun remove react

React App With Bun:


bun create react ./app

cd app

bun dev # start dev server

Documentation

Nextjs App with Bun:


bun create next ./app

cd app

bun dev # start dev server

Documentation

Benchmark Overview

On Linux, bun install install's packages 20x - 100x faster compared to npm install. On macOS, it’s more like 4x - 80x.

Conclusion

Bun is fairly new and i wouldn't recommend anyone to run it in production as its still experimental and bugs are expected. However the concepts are really solid. It feels like bun is trying to re-think the whole node ecosystem while bringing in backward compatibility of node packages. Would love to see what this projects morph's to in the future.

Discover and compare prices of products in Nigeria.

Alexander — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0000

Users in Nigeria are usually looking for the best quality of products for a reasonable price. Users usually use price comparison websites and apps to compare prices in Nigeria and secure the best deal for the products. However these stores do not sometimes provide accurate data to users as the product could have already gone out of stock.

Online shopping stores in Nigeria provides various products from phones, computers, electrical appliances, clothes and accessories, and kitchenware. Top online stores in Nigeria include Jumia, Konga, Payporte, and Kara. Imagine the nightmare of visiting each store when your trying to find the best price of a product. In this article will discuss Chekiprice Nigeria.

What is Chekiprice?

Chekiprice, is a real-time price comparison website that provides a platform to compare the prices of products in online stores.

Chekiprice Nigeria was release on the early 2020 with aim of simplifying product searches in Nigeria. Chekiprice achieves this by using Artificial Intelligence to sort products after retrieving them from various sources in Realtime.

Chekiprice provides extensive information about products in the Nigerian online market. The website gives users a platform to analyze the products specs against their prices compared to other stores and choose the one that suits them best. With checkiprice, you will have over 40 stores to compare prices from. The stores are distributed across the country; therefore, the website serves all Nigerians.

Why choose Chekiprice ?

Efficiency: Chekiprice helps you save time and be more efficient while shopping. The platform provides comprehensive information about online stores across Nigeria at zero cost.
Realtime Price Comparison: Chekiprice allows online shoppers to compare up-to-date prices, shipping fees, and merchants services on a single page.
AI: Chekiprice has AI that filters products. The AI-powered filtering analyses websites to pick meaningful data for the appropriate product. The AI ensures precision during product matching.

How does Chekiprice work?

Chekiprice is simple, clear, and transparent. The website is user-friendly and very easy to use. When searching, Chekiprice has ready made categories which you can choose from. You can also customize your search by selecting a group of individual stores. The website performs sorting of products based on your search using AI.

Conclusion

There is no doubt online shopping in Nigeria and the rest of Africa is the next big thing. Day by day we see more stores in Africa transitioning to the online space. Chekiprice is at the cutting age of the transition by providing space for discovery for the less popular stores amongst the bigger popular stores.