Prices.eu.org
Details
- External ID
- 49562157
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Prices.eu.org
- Website domain
- eu.org
- Launched
- Sept. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7001594896331739
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
When Ox-alpha was free I had it build this EU price index/tracker (the build took 40+ hours).Gemini deep research found the sources.Currently it tracks:- Fuel- Electricity- Currency- Housing- Groceries- Wages- Purchasing power
Enrichment
- Theme
- financial intelligence and trading tools
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- price comparison engine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes As noted by the creator, this is an automated dashboard fetching data from public EU/Eurostat APIs and national datasets, deployable as a static site via scheduled GitHub Actions.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: prices.eu.org/fuel for fuel price data
Concerns raised: Data accuracy and freshness issues across countries, Food prices not up-to-date or representative of actual retail prices, Statistical bureaus measure differently despite EU standards, Doesn't capture real-world pricing (promotions, regional variation), Fuel prices update infrequently despite rapid changes
Feature requests: Currency selector (EUR, USD, local currencies like PLN for Poland), Daily refresh of oil/fuel prices, Chart-based data presentation for trends and comparisons, Tax percentage breakdown by country
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.