AI made my weekend project feel exciting again

I spend my day job in Kubernetes and edge infrastructure. On the side, I built something purely for fun: a tool that compares product prices across multiple retailers, tracks price history over time and plots it on a simple line chart, so I can tell whether a "deal" is actually a deal.

What it does

The data comes from publicly available retailer information, including affiliate programmes. On top of that, it shows:

• the best price across sites,
• historical price trends,
• relevant bank and card offers,
• retailer ratings,

all on one screen.

Why a weekend was enough

What made this possible in a weekend instead of months was building it AI-assisted, end to end. It didn't replace the engineering: it removed the boring parts that usually keep personal projects from ever getting finished.

This is a personal, non-commercial project, built purely out of curiosity about how far AI can take a solo developer building something real, end to end.

If you've been sitting on an idea because the "boring parts" felt like too much, that excuse is a lot weaker now.