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App

Grocery tracker + family-portal (homelab)

A family web page listing the cheapest grocery prices in the neighborhood.

built Nov 2025 Side projects and experiments

how it works

TypeScript site with cron scraper and SQLite.

App: A complete application.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

familyscraper

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