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Show HN: Get an email when the price drops on any product's URL. No spam (lowlow.bot)

9 points by blancotech ↗ HN
Hey HN,

We built https://LowLow.bot, a website (no app or extension required) that tracks price drops and restocks on your favorite products — without the need to sign up for marketing emails. Inspired by https://camelcamelcamel.com for Amazon, we wanted the same experience for any website.

Some ways people use it:

• Big purchases, no rush – Buy ski gear when the price drops before next season.

• Recurring essentials – My partner’s pricey sunscreen? I buy it when it’s on sale.

• Holiday sales – Get notified before deals disappear.

• Restock alerts – Be the first to know when an item is back.

Some sites may not work perfectly yet, but we’ve been using it ourselves (and saved hundreds so far). We'd love your feedback - ideas, feature requests, anything.

Thanks!

7 comments

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hzuo
Super good for expensive running shoes - they’re always going on sale but you don’t know when.
sameline
blancotech and I have been working on this together and sharing it with friends and family over the last few months. Looking forward to any feedback on whether this seems like a useful tool!
beardyw
How can you monetise this?
sameline
We're still working on answering that but we want the user experience to be something that we really like using ourselves. That means that the website will remain ad-free, we won't send email marketing spam and we won't sell user data to advertisers.

Some options we're considering:

1. Offering premium plans that allow tracking more products with more frequent updates.

2. Allow users to opt-in for offers on the specific products they're already tracking.

We're still not sure if we've found product market fit with this idea so we're staying open-minded and trying to avoid getting too attached to any specific monetization tactic.

schumpeter
3. Affiliate programs with online retailers?

After looking at doing something similar, that was the only monetization angle I could find.

sameline
This is also worth considering, thanks. We would need to be careful to avoid overwriting any pre-existing affiliate tags set on a user provided URL like Honey was doing [0]. I’m curious why you stopped pursuing the idea if you don’t mind sharing.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

narwhal-tooth
Definitely something I'd use for things over $100, especially when not near a big sale day like black friday or cyber monday.