I’m working on Popgot ( https://popgot.com ), a tool that tracks unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings (“family size”, “mega pack”, etc.) to surface the actual cheapest option for daily essentials. On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g., flagging pean…
I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price tracking/alerting? And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate - is the cheapest. For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multipl…
A few years ago, I was very diligently tracking _all_ my family's grocery purchases. I kept every receipt, entered it into a spreadsheet, added categories (eg, dairy, meat), and calculated a normalized cost per unit (eg, $/gallon for milk, $/dozen eggs).
I learned a lot from that, and I think I saved our family a decent amount of money, but man it was a lot of work.