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Game price tracker

Hello indie hackers, currently I'm building a price tracker for games (steam, psn, xbox, other markets in future). Also, notification about game updates is one of the main features. The current state is - I have a data scraper for steam and an MVP iOS client. My vision is to build a mobile-first solution with native notifications and subscription-based business model. What do you think of this idea? I'm open for any feedback or suggestions.

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    Re: Steam - (don't care about console gaming)

    I really enjoy SteamDB's price tracker: https://steamdb.info/app/360430/

    Not sure how you'd want to monetize it though. Just a notification when it's on sale? If the game is your wishlist Steam sends you an email when it's on sale.

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      SteamDB and IsThereAnyDeal are decent players on the market, thus I want to focus only on the mobile experience. Monetization - you can take a look at psdeals.com iOS app. It has a subscription service, and it looks great (The only downside - the free version is spammed with ads)

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        I love the idea, unfortunately I feel there is way too much competition and noise, plus most users already have their favorites like SteamDB and IsThereAnyDeal so must websites and apps are actually alone...

        Anyway I love games some im interested in knowing more about this project.