Time Traveler's Receipt
Guess Historical Grocery Prices
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Guess the price of every item on today's historical grocery receipt.
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PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 63%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Games
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See all 284 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The guessing game UI is trivial, but it depends on a reliable historical grocery price dataset that a solo builder would have to source or compile.
What it would actually take: The app would need a dataset of item-level historical grocery prices (from government CPI sub-indices, archived retailer data, or hand-curated sources), then a daily receipt generator and scoring UI. The hard part is data acquisition and validation across decades. Access to economic data sources and some research effort are required.
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Attention rank: #93 of 285 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 217 days after the earliest competitor.
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