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Looking for a roast: a price-drop radar that only logs real drops

I shipped bargains.app — a small price-drop radar, not a coupon site.
You paste a product URL and an email (optional target price). We fetch the page, record the price we can actually parse, and check again on a schedule. A drop is only logged when the new number is lower than the last one we saw. The first successful fetch is a baseline, so it does not fire an alert.
What it is not: a coupon marketplace, a fake countdown, or a wall of “90% off” tiles. If we cannot read a price, we keep the watch and store the error. We do not invent a number, a discount, or a user count.
There is a demo product on the same domain (a kitchen mixer) if you want to see a real drop without hitting a retailer.
I’d like a roast of the watch form and the copy. Is it obvious what happens after you submit? Would you trust it with something you already want to buy?
https://bargains.app

on September 3, 2026
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    Shipped since the post: public Atom feed of real drops (/feed.xml), fuller locale sitemap/hreflang. Parser still HTML-only — same limit as above. Still want a roast on the form/copy if you’ve tried it.