TrackAura

Hey everyone — I'm Nick, a solo dev in Quebec building TrackAura (trackaura.com) as a side project while working full-time.

The problem: Canadian retailers love marking up prices before a "sale." CamelCamelCamel only covers Amazon, and nothing tracks Canadian stores like Canada Computers and Newegg. So I built my own.

What it does: scrapes 15,000+ products every 4 hours, shows full price history charts, sends email alerts when prices drop to your target, and lets you compare across retailers. All free, no account needed.

Tech stack: Next.js on Vercel for the frontend, Python/Playwright scrapers running locally on my Windows PC, SQLite for the database, Supabase for email signups, Resend for alerts.

What's working: 9 blog posts driving early SEO, 25 categories, automated pipeline running from a .bat file in my Windows startup folder (very indie, I know). Price alerts are live and the weekly deal digest email is built.

What I'm figuring out: the "other" category is still a junk bucket of 1,000 products my classifier can't categorize. And I'm only 5 days into scraping, so the price history charts are still pretty thin.

Revenue: Amazon affiliate links for now. Long-term vision is building a Canadian price index from the raw data — like an independent alternative to government CPI for consumer electronics.

Would love feedback on the site and any ideas on growing traffic as a solo dev with no marketing budget.