Brick Wizard: A tool for saving money at BrickLink

[RotsiserMho]

Hi everyone! Over the past 18 months I have been working on Brick Wizard: an app for OS X/Windows that helps save money on BrickLink orders by determining the least expensive combination of stores for a given parts/wanted list. It's inspired by the awesome MATLAB scripts written by atxdad but it's much, much faster and easier to use :).

I hope you find this useful! Thanks for checking it out!

[dqfritzke]

Sounds like a great tool. Do you know if you will be adding Canada for a search location?

[RotsiserMho]

Support for other countries is definitely on the road map. If you're interested, please vote for this feature on our Trello board!

[Mantisking]

I know a few people who might be interested in this on another board. So I cross-posted it.

[RotsiserMho]

Thanks Mantisking, for spreading the word!

0.1.3 is now available. Highlights include drastically reduced memory usage (less than 100 MB, even for large numbers of combinations) and 2-6 times faster performance. A high-end computer (3GHz quad core) can process over a billion combinations in under 10 minutes.

0.1.3 Beta for OS X
0.1.3 Beta for Windows

[gopalkrishnan]

Well, that's a great tool. Thanks for sharing.

[Mantisking]

Thanks Mantisking, for spreading the word!

No problem. There are a lot of people on the Hangar that use Bricklink to source their parts for MFZ. So I figured your program would be of use to them.

[RotsiserMho]

Brick Wizard 0.1.4 Beta has been released with international support!

New Features

• Added support for all countries and currencies supported by BrickLink!
  • Stores are now filtered by the selected country to ship to
  • Prices are displayed in the selected currency
• Preferences are automatically saved
• Added support for importing BrickLink wanted list XML
• Number of threads defaults to one less than the maximum to avoid inadvertently locking up the system

Bug Fixes

• The number of stores per combination is now limited to the total quantity of items instead of the number of item entries. This allows for searching for large quantities of a single part.
• Report more errors instead of simply crashing

0.1.4 Beta for OS X
0.1.4 Beta for Windows

[lordoflego]

That sounds really useful!!!

[stevebuscemi]

If this works as advertised it would be an extremely useful tool. But only OSX or Win 7+ :(

[vorpalblade]

Looking forward to testing this new version out. The previous was helpful, but I did experience the crashing instead of error reporting. Keep it up!

[RotsiserMho]

Brick Wizard 0.1.5 Beta is out with greatly improved international support! I hope this works for everyone. Please let me know if you spot any issues!

New Features

• Added support for selecting regions to ship from
  • Stores are now filtered by the selected regions
  • Country in which store is located is displayed next to the store link

Bug Fixes

• No longer limited to stores in the US!

0.1.5 Beta for OS X
0.1.5 Beta for Windows