A website that tracks US food prices every day
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes daily food price data for about 290 commodities on:- what growers were paid at shipping point- what buyers paid at the big city wholesale markets- what prices supermarkets advertised in their weekly adsThis data comes out as dozens of separate text reports and PDFs, one per market, with no history and no way to see how prices change over time.I think this should be public data that is easy to access and understand, so I built an open-source tracker for it.Github: https://github.com/kadoa-org/food-price-monitor
HN · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 29 upvotes (top 21%) · 1 view
Niche: retail price tracking and pos software · 66 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Retail & commerce
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is an automated ETL pipeline and dashboard aggregating public USDA agricultural pricing reports into charts using standard scheduled scrapers and a web frontend.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Unmarked x-axis, Trustworthiness of government data, Price accuracy questions (wholesale vs retail), Missing axis timeframe indicator
Feature requests: Sorting capabilities, Sensible composite index value on top, Labels/units on the x-axis
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 583 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #81 of 584 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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