A wishlist that fills itself in

Amazon, Nike, IKEA, Best Buy, Walmart, Steam, Barnes & Noble, Target, Etsy, and every shop running on Shopify — which is a very large number of the small ones. On a Shopify shop Rivori reads the store’s own data rather than its page, so the price is exact to the cent, the right variant is picked when the link names one, and a shop’s own “was” price comes across with it.

A few shops refuse to be read by anything that isn’t a person sitting at a browser, and there is no clever way around that worth having. When it happens Rivori says so, takes the name of the thing from the address itself — a link ending /evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-xc-gaming becomes a wish called what it says — and lets you add the price and a photograph yourself. A wish with no price is still a wish.

It also handles the things that have no shop at all. A wish doesn’t need a link: “concert tickets”, “a morning to myself”, “help moving the sofa” are all perfectly good entries on a list.

The photograph is copied to Rivori rather than linked from the shop, which sounds like a detail and is the difference between a board that still looks like something in six months and a board of grey squares. Shops rotate image addresses as stock turns over, and many of them refuse to serve a picture to a page that isn’t theirs.

Every wish keeps the size and shape of its real photograph, so a tall bottle and a wide sofa look like a tall bottle and a wide sofa. You can add your own note in your own words, mark one thing as the one you want most, and drag the whole board into the order you mean.

Prices carry the date we last checked them, always. A wishlist is a thing people sit on for months and a figure with no date on it is a figure quietly going stale — and we keep re-checking it.

Nobody, until you decide. A new board is private to you. From there it’s either link-only — anyone you send the link to can open it, and search engines are told to stay out — or listed, which puts it on Discover and in search on purpose. Those are two different things and Rivori keeps them two different settings, because a board you shared with your mum is not a board you published.