Problem: Which store has the best price for an item?

Where to run data scrapper code?

AWS Lambda: ？

• try to run puppeteer on aws lambda...

Supabase Functions: ❌

• neither playwright, nor astral worked
• deno specific puppeteer loaded, but couldnt run without Deno.makeTempDir which is not available in supabase functions

Market Research

• https://flipp.com/
  • pro
    • tons of stores
    • reference flyer pic to confirm price
  • cons
    • includes stores over 20min away
    • UI is very busy
    • hard to tell best price
    • no alerts
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/11udh7d/appprogram_that_automatically_tracks_which/
  • I used to manually keep track of where I can find the best price per unit for an item on an Excel sheet, but I wanted to know if there's an app/program that automatically tracks which grocery store has the best price for an item if I scan my receipt?
• old https://www.mygrocerydeals.com/
  • from wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230528010252/https://www.mygrocerydeals.com/
  • patent for optimized grocery list
  • John Scott holds the patent and co-founded the company
  • looks like the company has moved to b2b business now

References

TIL: Patents last for 20 years

Oct 31, 2023

🤓 Today I Learned

When researching prior art for Is it on Sale? I found that MyGroceryDeals.com has a patent issued in 2010 around their method of aggregating grocery store flyers.