Wanting a price-drop alert without signing up for yet another deal site
“I'm waiting for a specific item to drop below a price. I don't want a deals newsletter or a browser extension that tracks everything — just ping me when THIS hits THAT.”— Hacker News ↗
CamelCamelCamel is Amazon-only and has repeatedly broken when Amazon cut API access; deal aggregators optimize for affiliate browsing, not your one item. A single-item, single-target-price watcher that works from any store's structured metadata is the quiet tool the trackers won't build.
Patient shoppers waiting for a target price
Build a single-item price watcher in Next.js. User adds a product URL and a target price; a scheduled job re-checks the price and notifies when it drops to/below target. Start with stores that expose price in JSON-LD/Open Graph to avoid brittle scraping. First 3 steps: (1) add-watch form (URL + target), (2) a price-fetch routine reading structured metadata, (3) a daily cron that checks watches and flags hits. Notification can start as on-site; email later.