What changed, when, and why
A running log of every methodology, data, and infrastructure change on SupplierSpy. Newest first. Edited by D.B. Shadow. Scroll for the seed entries from launch day.
See also: methodology v1.0 · corrections log · reproduce locally.
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Infra
Cloudflare Browser Rendering + IPRoyal residential proxy wired up — Capterra scraping now runs end-to-end through the refresh pipeline.
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Data
/supplier/<slug>/signals receipt pages shipped — every score on the site now has a per-dimension, per-source audit trail.
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Data
Yahoo Finance stock quotes enabled for publicly listed suppliers (ISIN / ticker resolved on snapshot write).
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Infra
Live scraping activated for Shopify App Store and Trustpilot — review counts and star averages refresh every 6 hours via cron.
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Data
17 dropshipping suppliers seeded with hand-typed scores evaluated against rubric v1.0; rubric-driven scoring scaffolding added.
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Methodology
Methodology v1.0 published — 8 dimensions, integer weights summing to 100, alphabetical tiebreak. Permalink: /methodology/v1.0.