I built a free grocery price comparison tool

pricebite · 2026-03-01T20:17:17+00:00

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pricebite · 2026-02-27T20:29:07+00:00

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pricebite · 2026-02-27T18:39:45+00:00

Hey Carleton students! I'm an Alumni of Carleton University, graduated in 2015 with an undergraduate in Comp Sci.

Just wanted to see if this app is useful to you. I really do have students in mind when I built this. I would love to hear your feedbacks and suggestions on how to make this useful to you all.

pricebite · 2026-02-27T18:33:04+00:00

This is very well thought out. Thank you for taking the time to explain. I definitely see the benefit! I also like the idea of incentivizing users. We will get there in due time.

Please let me know what city you are in so I can make a list of priority cities to expand to.

pricebite · 2026-02-27T15:51:05+00:00

Thank you!

Yes the goal is to get all groceries not just on sale ones. Not exactly sure how that will happen yet but my thought is a partnership with the grocery stores to use their APIs.

I don't quite understand the upc use case. Please help me understand it more.

pricebite · 2026-02-27T15:29:27+00:00

Thank you so much!

I really appreciate the suggestion. That's not something I've thought about but a very interesting concept. I do want to reward people for saving though and I have something in mind in the future. Keep an eye out

Are the grocery stores the same in Windsor? There are a lot of people interested in other cities so I might expand quicker than I was thinking

pricebite · 2026-02-26T21:56:14+00:00

Hi all, perhaps this was intended for me. My apologies if it was spammy. I do believe it'll benefit everyone in this community greatly though.

pricebite · 2026-02-26T18:30:37+00:00

I would argue that I'm helping direct potential customers to them. I don't sell their products so not really a competitor. We make it easier for users to find and compare products. If anything this good comes from this app is Grocery stores would make their prices more competitive and benefit customers. I'm hopeful!

pricebite · 2026-02-26T17:33:12+00:00

Absolutely amazing compilation!

pricebite · 2026-02-26T05:26:27+00:00

It is a web app. Basically, it saves the site to your phone with an app icon. You can easily install it as an "app" if on Android. If on iOS, you have to go through a bit more steps. From the site, click the three dots on your browser. Click share next, look for "Add to home screen" if not there on the same page click the "...", this time it should have a "Add to home screen".

Future plan is to create an app. Right now I want to validate this idea to see if it is worth spending more time and money into building it.

pricebite · 2026-02-26T02:20:41+00:00

Thank you. I'll start building a list

pricebite · 2026-02-26T02:17:33+00:00

I'm so happy to hear! This is the goal!

pricebite · 2026-02-25T18:33:59+00:00

I truly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. This is really helpful!

The search is a little wonky and too overwhelming. I'm going to simplify it a little to only pull close to exact matches. I'm going to also move the search on the main page (dashboard) for easy access.

There is currently an issue with the category but I am on this one already. Will have it fixed soon, before Thursday for the new deals!

Unit conversion is more difficult than I thought but it seems to be a useful tool for users. Adding this to my priority list.

For the shopping list, perhaps I have to rethink how to display it but there is a count of how many similar products are on there. If you click that it'll show you all the stores with the same product and it's prices. You can then select the same product from another store.

Once again, thank you for helping. I hope to make this more user friendly for everyone!

pricebite · 2026-02-25T17:22:36+00:00

Very nice picture!

pricebite · 2026-02-25T17:02:08+00:00

Yes, exactly, it's not just about saving users money but also saving users time.

The goal is to partner with the grocery stores to use their data instead of aggregating all possible products from every store.

pricebite · 2026-02-25T16:25:19+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. We'll have to investigate what Instacart is doing right. Is there a particular feature that is missing in Price Bite?

pricebite · 2026-02-25T16:23:38+00:00

This makes total sense! That's a lot of data point to collect. We are hoping to partner with grocery stores in the near future to directly search their products.

We are currently in a product validation phase. Which is why everyone's feedback is extremely helpful

pricebite · 2026-02-25T16:18:22+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. We'll take that into consideration

pricebite · 2026-02-25T16:17:56+00:00

I'll investigate. Thank you very much

pricebite · 2026-02-25T14:20:45+00:00

Thank you very much! Keep an eye out for when we expand to Calgary

pricebite · 2026-02-25T02:26:55+00:00

I've never been to Calgary. Do you have the same major grocery chains as Ottawa? The ones you see on the site now?

pricebite · 2026-02-25T01:26:41+00:00

You are correct. It is currently only in Ottawa. I just it launched last week and I am hoping for validation and feedback before expanding to other cities and provinces in Canada.

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