I built a tiny SaaS to stop manually checking competitor pricing pages — here’s what I learned so far.

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve been building a small SaaS project recently after realizing how much time I was wasting manually checking competitor pricing pages.

Every time I worked on pricing or positioning, I’d find myself opening 4-5 competitor pages, taking screenshots of tiers, spilling notes into a doc... and then doing the whole thing again a week later because, of course, everything was already stale.

So I built a tiny MVP to solve my own problem:

You input a competitor URL → it watches the page → emails you when something changes.

No accounts, no dashboards – just notifications.

A few things I’ve learned early on building this:

• The tricky part isn’t detecting changes – it’s figuring out what changes are actually important.
• Most founders don’t bother tracking competitors on a regular basis; it’s usually a wake-up call after sales calls.
• Simpler workflows look more attractive than feature-rich dashboards (at least for now).

Currently, I’m trying to answer one question:

Do founders actually care about continuous monitoring, or is it more about occasional “don’t blindside me” notifications?

If you’ve ever had to track competitors before, I’d love to hear:

How do you currently stay on top of competitor changes?