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Nice creative idea here. I think its pretty fun.

A few things:

1. Sometimes I have no idea what an image is showing. Text would be really helpful.

2. What is the purpose of hints? I know people could just google search, but why make it so easy?

Thanks misuse! We are debating text over here. Text would make it easier to bot I think. Please don't bot this fellow HNers just because I mentioned this! :) Please! So a way to fix the bot problem here, is to force the optical character recognition to be the way to have to crack it. And Text descriptions would thwart that. So the purpose of hints is basically so you don't have to have text descriptions but still have a way of going over to the site to see prices. It's not perfect of course. Maybe the hint could be made a bit harder, like we send you to a search for "Macbook Pro" instead of the exact item. Thanks for the feedback on this and checking it out.

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