Creating Effective Hunts

A good hunt is specific enough that the scanner can tell a real deal from noise, and priced tight enough that a match is worth acting on. Here's how each setting works and how to get it right.

Pick the right category

The Hunt Builder starts with a category: Storage, RAM, GPU, CPU, Mac, or Other. The category decides which questions you're asked — a storage hunt asks about capacity and drive type; a Mac hunt asks about chip generation and memory. Choose the closest fit, even if you're flexible: category is the strongest signal the scanner uses to decide relevance.

Target price vs ceiling price

These two numbers do different jobs.

• Ceiling — the hard filter. Nothing priced above it is scored at all. Set it at the most you'd ever pay. If you set it loose ("I'd take anything"), you'll get results that are technically matches but not deals.
• Target — your "move fast" line. This is the price where you'd buy without thinking, and the builder shows it back to you as such. The scorer filters on your ceiling, not your target — so treat the target as your reference for what a win looks like, and set the ceiling tight enough that matches are actually worth reading.

A useful pattern: check the price guide for your category, find the median, and set your target near it and your ceiling a bit above.

Criteria and specs

Answer the spec questions honestly, even the optional ones. A RAM hunt that specifies DDR4 vs DDR5 filters out a whole class of wrong listings before scoring ever runs. Brand preferences and condition tolerances feed the scorer too — the verdict text will tell you why a listing missed, so adjust from there.

Source toggles

Each hunt controls which sources it scans. Not every source is live right now — see Known Limitations for the current list. Broad coverage is usually better: more listings in, and the scorer sorts the good from the bad.

Pause, edit, delete

• Pause a hunt anytime from its detail page — a paused hunt stops scanning. Note a paused hunt still counts against your active-hunt limit.
• Edit name, pricing, criteria, and sources whenever you like. Scan cadence is fixed to your tier (daily on Free, every 2 hours on paid) — you can't set a custom interval.
• Delete removes the hunt, its results, and its alerts permanently. There's no undo.

Tier limits

Upgrade from your dashboard when you need more room. Limits are enforced at hunt creation and when you resume a paused hunt — you'll get a clear message if you're at the cap.