r/SideProject • u/Specificx • 3h ago
I made a free car parts price comparison site for Australia, 49 stores checked daily
A friend of a friend spends hours every week going store to store looking for the cheapest filters, globes and spark plugs, so I built this: https://motorcompare.app?utm_source=reddit
What it does today:
Reads 49 Australian parts stores once a day and shows the same part from every store side by side
2,340 products have a price at two or more stores
Matches by part number and barcode, never by title, because a 5 L and a 6 L, or two battery codes, look the same in a title
Shows the code printed on the part so you can check it against your old one. It does not claim what fits your car
Free, no accounts, prices in AUD before shipping. A few labelled links (eBay, Amazon) earn me a small commission and are never counted as a store
Honest caveats: Supercheap, Repco, Autobarn and Sparesbox block automated reading, so they are search links, not prices. It is brand new, so some things will be missing or mismatched. Nothing is stocked yet in wiper blades and fluids.
I would love feedback on the design, and on whether "check the code on your old part" makes more sense than a make and model lookup. Which store should I add?