Disclosure: I'm the founder of Popgot, which I use as the example below. The problem and the approach...
Disclosure: I'm the founder of Popgot, which I use as the example below. The problem and the approach apply regardless of what you build on.
Every price comparison project I've seen starts the same way: scrape a bunch of retailers, store the prices, sort ascending. And then it produces garbage rankings, because price is not a comparable field.
Here's the classic failure. Three listings for AA batteries:
Listing
Price
Price comparison platforms look simple from the outside. A search box. A few products. Some retailer...
Japanese e-commerce is fragmented. The same product — a vintage camera, a game console, a brand bag —...
Every price-tracking system starts the same way. You have a catalogue of products, a feed of retailer...
Most price monitoring systems look simple on paper: point a scraper at a product page, ask an LLM to...
A few months ago, I was building a price comparison tool that needed to pull product info from a...
A few months ago, I was building a price tracker for limited-edition sneakers. I had a list of 50+...
