Why I built BuyWatch
I got back into AI last spring, a little later than some people. (As a teenager I designed and built the National 4-H robotics program, still in use today, back when AI was mostly if-then logic driving simple robots.) By the time I tried to buy a Mac Studio, they were sold out everywhere. The only place left was eBay.
I bought two there, and both sellers turned out to be fraudsters. Luckily eBay's buyer protection got my money back, which is exactly why I'd stuck to eBay. Plenty of sellers wanted me to pay outside eBay with a "direct deal." That's totally a scam, and a lot of people got burned. So I couldn't get a new Mac, and I couldn't even get a used one, because everyone was fighting over them.
When some lower-end models came back in stock, I grabbed a base Mac Mini. You just can't do much AI work on one. So I decided I'd get a Mac Studio when the new ones came out. Then I heard the 512 GB version wasn't shipping right away. I ordered two 256 GB models and kept watching for the 512.
Apple said late October, but you never know. I caught myself checking over and over, and I thought: wait a minute, I can solve this. So I sat down and built it.
Then I figured other people might want it too. I spent a week smoothing out the rough spots and testing, and I added backups: three separate systems, each sending you three notifications. You can never remove every chance of failure, but you can do everything possible so it doesn't cost you your shot. Redundancy is the way.
At first I planned to charge $97 for BuyWatch alerts. Then I stopped, thought about it, and decided to give back to the community I love so much. So now it's 100% free! Enjoy, and I look forward to seeing the crazy stuff we get up to in the future. Cheers!
If you appreciate the alert, buy me an energy drink, a beer, or a whole case of energy drinks. (Energy drinks keep me going so I can keep building these projects for you.)