Price Per Ball
Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Details
- External ID
- 47048633
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Price Per Ball
- Website domain
- priceperball.net
- Launched
- Feb. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 34
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7580862533692723
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I took inspiration from diskprices.com, but applied it to my golfing hobby.For someone who can't always keep it in the fairway, golf balls can get rather expensive, so I decided to build a way for me to view Amazon listings by how much they cost per ball in the hopes of finding some good deals. Hence the name of the website.The site is hosted on Cloudflare pages and I use Github actions to trigger a python script that fetches and checks the prices. It runs twice a day. If the script encounters any new ASINs, it stores them for future checks, so the list of golf balls being price checked should keep growing over time. Changes are then pushed to Cloudflare pages.There can sometimes be some pricing oddities when the product title says one count, but the unit count being returned from Amazon is another number, so I'm trying to add some checks to help accommodate for that. Right now, I just have some manual overrides for certain ASINs, but I'm looking to improve on it in the future.The frontend is just some basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Listings on Amazon can be inconsistent sometimes because, for example, product titles will say used balls, but the seller lists them as new. I added some filters to that allow you to exclude used/recycled balls, plastic golf balls, etc... You can also filter by brand.Give it a spin and let me know if you run into any issues or have any feature ideas to make it more useful.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche data tools and novelty websites
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- price comparison for golf balls
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward web scraper or Amazon Product Advertising API wrapper that calculates price per unit and displays the results in a filterable table.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ballesdepadel.com (padel ball comparison site), lakeballs.com (discount golf balls), proteinmath.app (price per unit comparison for protein), DigiKey (filtering/search interface reference)
Concerns raised: Data inconsistencies between seller unit counts and product titles, Relying on unit count as primary metric is unreliable, LLM API costs and pricing model unclear
Feature requests: Filter by golf ball construction: two-piece, three-piece, four-piece, etc., Filter by swing speed and cover type, Text search/type-to-filter for brands (like DigiKey), Sort functionality for filter results, Granular filter options
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Launched 71 days after the earliest competitor.
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