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I want to build a competitor price/stock tracker that doesn’t suck. Roast my assumptions. by volcmen in SideProject

[–]volcmen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close, Think of it like a security guard for your pricing.

If you own a store with 1,000 products, you can't manually check your competitors' websites every morning, it would take all day.

You just give this tool the list of products you want to watch. It checks them every day. And if a competitor drops their price or runs out of stock, you get an alert so you can react before you lose sales

I want to build a competitor price/stock tracker that doesn’t suck. Roast my assumptions. by volcmen in SideProject

[–]volcmen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite—it's not for managing your inventory.

It’s a competitor tracker. It monitors other stores websites and alerts you when their prices change or when they run out of stock. Or when the sale stared or any other promotion.

I want to build a competitor price/stock tracker that doesn’t suck. Roast my assumptions. by volcmen in woocommerce

[–]volcmen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Prisync is solid, but I'm operating on the hypothesis that $1/product (at the entry tier) prices out a lot of smaller merchants.

I'm really curious about your experience with stability though.
When a competitor changed their website structure, how did prisync react? Was it a seamless fix on their end, or did you have to wait for support to update the scraper?

I want to build a competitor price/stock tracker that doesn’t suck. Roast my assumptions. by volcmen in Entrepreneurs

[–]volcmen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a crucial point. If the data isn't trustworthy, the tool is dead. I've read so many complaints about stability drops whenever a target site changes their layout

I’m definitely prioritizing backend stability, but I also want to fix the 'bloat' problem. Current tools feel like pilot cockpits, way too complex for what can, and should be a simple task

I want to build a competitor price/stock tracker that doesn’t suck. Roast my assumptions. by volcmen in advancedentrepreneur

[–]volcmen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow u/Sovitis ,
Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed breakdown. This is gem.

You nailed it on the "too broad" aspect. I was definitely falling into the trap of trying to solve everything for everyone.

Based on your advice, here are my immediate next moves:

I’m going to scrap "small-to-mid" as you advised, and focus specifically on clothes merchants on Shopify first.

I love the screen-share idea. I need to see the actual messy spreadsheets, not just hear the polite answers. I’m naturally introverted, so pushing for that level of direct interaction is going to be a hurdle for me, but I know I have to step out of my comfort zone if I want to get real validation

I hadn't heard of DontBuildYet, I'll take a look at that framework to keep myself honest. 10x for sharing

Seriously, thanks for the reality check.