Customizer Corner is a search engine for custom action figure parts. I wrote a java scraping framework that grabs the images and outputs into WordPress CSV format. I then manually import the CSV files into WordPress. My plan is to write a brand new backend and frontend that does not use WordPress, mainly because some of the WordPress limitations are too much (facets don’t work great, for one, and the import/update process is a bit of a pain). Essentially, using WordPress was a POC.
I also create a deals tracker that can be seen at https://customizercorner.com/deals/ – it tracks figures from Amazon. This was written in Java and Sprint boot and all the price changes are being tracked in the DB. My plan is to add some more features to it in the future.