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So I wrote a self-hosted price tracking app
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So I wrote a self-hosted price tracking app

via Dev.to PythonTony McMahon2h ago

First post here. I'm an older coder these days, with a background in C, C++, SQL, Unix/Linux. These days I don't write so much and work as a systems engineer making sure other peoples software stays running! I recently re-purposed an old gaming PC into a homelab and am starting to get the tech buzz back. I was looking at adding some new hard drives to my NAS but I had no idea what a good price was, so I've been building this price tracker. Not going to lie here, I've used Claude-AI to generate the initial build, but I've used that as a way to learn these technologies that are new to me, and from there I've tried to improve things myself (with help from Claude debugging). Looking for ideas for future features or enhancement... https://github.com/devoidx/price-tracker

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