Cigar Seek
The ultimate cigar search engine.
Project overview
Cigar Seek is The ultimate cigar search engine.. This innovative platform allows you to effortlessly browse through a vast selection of cigars from top brands and retailers. Built with high standards for performance, security, and intuitive user experiences, the platform is engineered to support mission-critical workflows and seamless scale.
What made this project challenging
Aggregating live cigar inventory, auction bids, and pricing across dozens of major international retailers
Standardizing disparate vitola dimensions, wrapper origins, and flavor profiles into a canonical database
Handling high-frequency price updates and instant alert triggers when rare cigars restock
Building an ultra-fast faceted search filtering by strength, wrapper, country, and price range
How we delivered
Built distributed web scraping cluster collecting daily inventory and price updates from 40+ retailers
Engineered Elasticsearch index supporting fuzzy search, flavor notes, and vitola classification
Developed price drop and back-in-stock notification system alerting subscribed collectors instantly
Created community tasting notes and ratings system with verified purchase badges
Key outcomes
Over 25,000 unique cigar vitolas indexed and compared
Largest dedicated cigar price comparison engine online
Saved collectors an average of 22% per box purchase
Sub-100ms search query response across millions of price data points
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