Overlord Brenda is a collaborative effort by multiple developers in the program to create an effective way of sending targeted notifications to users regarding their wishlist items on vine.
Brenda is responsible for parsing links in the alert channels, removing duplicates, and then pinging users based off what categories interest them.
Her latest version also has the ability to not only ping people when certain items containing certain keywords drop, but can also be used in RFY to track when items transition from RFY and drop into AI/AFA.
Brenda retrieves the product's Amazon category using an API and assigned to our "Brenda category" with her algorithm. Amazon has thousands of categories, so we are using this to limit and group together products that make sense to be in the same category. That is why many of our categories do not match Amazon.