Long story short, I wanted to share a project that I've been working on. I recently wanted to build a project, and settled on a site that would look through market listings on multiple worlds, break out outliers and bot listings, calculate taxes, and sort listings by profit and sale speed. The result of this project was FFXIV Flip Finder. I know there are fantastic tools already out there, but I wanted to build something that works well for me and removes most of the noise.
This was entirely designed as a personal project, so it's free to use for anyone. The only thing I'd love from folks is feedback! I really want to expand on this, and It's been a blast to work on, mostly because of all the new things I've learned in the process. I know that this may be "self promotional" in a sense, but I'm really excited about the project and wanted to get it out there in the open somehow.
As far as the long story in question, for those that are curious! A year or so ago my wife and I decided we wanted to buy and decorate a house in-game. She was still playing through the story, and I had reached max level and spent all my gil (short of ~100k) on raids and items. I didn't know how to make money, and the market tools that were available weren't enough for me.
I decided at the time that it might be fun to work on a small project. I pulled a bunch of data into PowerBI (something I was working with a lot at the time) and built some tables and charts. They worked well and helped to make what I needed through trading in about a week. It was a blast to work on, and It worked really well, but it had plenty of problems. It was clunky, complex, took up several GB of space on my computer, took forever to load and over 10 minutes to refresh, etc etc..
We ended up not getting the house after getting beaten down by the lottery. Eventually we stopped playing for a while, but a month or so ago and we got the itch to return. We still wanted to get a housing lot, but the new housing items I wanted to get were still out of my price range, so I began working on what would eventually be the flip finder, and wanted to see how much it could be improved the second time around.
I'm open to any and all questions, and would love to see if anyone can make good use of it. I would also love to see any stories you might have about your house-buying or gil-making experiences!
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This was entirely designed as a personal project, so it's free to use for anyone. The only thing I'd love from folks is feedback! I really want to expand on this, and It's been a blast to work on, mostly because of all the new things I've learned in the process. I know that this may be "self promotional" in a sense, but I'm really excited about the project and wanted to get it out there in the open somehow.
As far as the long story in question, for those that are curious! A year or so ago my wife and I decided we wanted to buy and decorate a house in-game. She was still playing through the story, and I had reached max level and spent all my gil (short of ~100k) on raids and items. I didn't know how to make money, and the market tools that were available weren't enough for me.
I decided at the time that it might be fun to work on a small project. I pulled a bunch of data into PowerBI (something I was working with a lot at the time) and built some tables and charts. They worked well and helped to make what I needed through trading in about a week. It was a blast to work on, and It worked really well, but it had plenty of problems. It was clunky, complex, took up several GB of space on my computer, took forever to load and over 10 minutes to refresh, etc etc..
We ended up not getting the house after getting beaten down by the lottery. Eventually we stopped playing for a while, but a month or so ago and we got the itch to return. We still wanted to get a housing lot, but the new housing items I wanted to get were still out of my price range, so I began working on what would eventually be the flip finder, and wanted to see how much it could be improved the second time around.
I'm open to any and all questions, and would love to see if anyone can make good use of it. I would also love to see any stories you might have about your house-buying or gil-making experiences!
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