Announcements
March 12, 2025
Soooo, you know how Woot+ allows you to search only by the product title? That’s by design. It allows the real-time search to be lightning fast and it ensures relevant results.
A major limitation has been the fact that it was doing exact matching on a given search term. This meant that if you entered two words (ex: "iPhone case") you’d likely get no results because most titles look more like this: "OtterBox iPhone 15 Pro MagSafe Case".
Woot+ search has been revised so that when given multiple search terms (separated by spaces), it will match each of those terms individually. Searching for "iPhone case" will now yield results containing the words "iPhone” AND "case".
In retrospect this seems like an obvious thing and it should have worked this way since launch. (It took me about 15 minutes to make the change.) It simply didn’t occur to me, but I’ll bet it occurred to some of you. To that end, if you have any suggestions on how to increase the utility of Woot+, please pass them on via the Feedback form.
https://wootplus.com/feedback/
Mmmmm...feedback! 🍪
February 25, 2025
"Wishlist" has been renamed to "Bookmarks"
One of the most compelling (and overlooked) features of Woot+ is its ability to quickly save items of interest while sifting through the shop.
Think of it like clothes shopping: normally you'll grab a few things off the rack that might be a fit, then you'll head over to the changing room to see if you really like the item enough to shell out some hard earned cash. Woot+ has offered this facility since the day of its official of launch (April 2022), but for whatever reason it has not been heavily used. My hope is that by renaming the feature to "Bookmarks" its purpose will be more apparent and it'll see some traction.
If you haven't already, give Bookmarks a try and see if it makes life any easier for ya.
February 12, 2025
Until now there has been no practical way for you to vent your anger and frustration about the countless ways Woot+ has failed to deliver the experience you so desire from a Woot "search engine". It's been on my mind for ages to provide some means of collecting input from this community, and at last it is done.
If you've got ideas on how to improve Woot+ or you just can't resist the urge to vent, head over to the feedback page and drop a line letting me know how to bring this project one step closer to perfection.
February 10, 2025
From time to time there will be something I feel the Woot+ community should know about. Since I've not been making good use of social media to promote the site, I can't (yet) rely on it as a means of communicating with all you good people. For the moment there's this: a page where announcements can be posted for your reading displeasure.