ERO

Ero is an aggregator and notifier of graphics card stock information across multiple swedish retailers. It was created as a means of finding out about releases of graphics cards during the 2021 shortage. The Ero system consists of four interconnected parts: a backend which crawls a number of retailers for the current status of their graphics cards stock and pushes the latest data to a cloud database, an API which reads from that same database, a frontend which uses the API to give an overview of the current graphics cards availability, and finally a bot using both email and Telegram to report new findings as soon as they appear.

The web frontend together with the reporting bot proved a reliable package solution to quickly find out about new graphics cards releases, and it did in fact help us and a number of our acquaintances to get our hands on graphics cards at a time when it for many seemed impossible to do so. (hover me 💖)

We have decided to shut down our instance of ero however the source code is available on github.com for anyone to use.