16 points | by krisozy19 hours ago
But what you said is exactly what my buddy and I have felt. Google Shopping also injects all these advertisers who have similar but different products. There isn't a good place to just say "Here's the exact product I want, now find it for me for the best price" that we've found.
We built and use https://www.lowlow.bot for price tracking specific item urls. Next we were thinking of doing it across sites just like you described, so it's good to hear from someone else who prefers that.
If you could do something like camelcamelcamel.com where it allows me to find the exact product & then put my email to watch for price drops of the product I'm looking for, that would be ideal. Keep up the good work!
Genuine Question: what is the source of the underlying data?
Data is scraped live from the marketplaces.
I have a little project like that written in R that has surprisingly worked well over a year without maintenance but some marketplace were off-limits without specific proxies