Idealo Price Optimization Platform
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Feature-frozen3-act recordPrivate build
Business proofFounder / operator
How a Seller Stopped Guessing at Idealo Prices and Started Winning Rank 1
Manual Idealo price checks covered 40 products per session at 45 minutes each. Automated ranking-aware pricing raised rank-1 coverage from 45% to 70%.
System FlowData ModelArchitecture LayersDecision Log
Open business proof7 min read
Architecture proofCTO / architect
Architectural Brief: Idealo Price Optimization Platform
BeautifulSoup instead of Playwright to stay under a 200MB Docker image. Celery workers self-kill at 450MB so one stuck job never drains the pool.
System TopologyInfrastructure DecisionsConstraintsDecision Log
Open architecture proof7 min read
Technical proofSenior engineer
Why the Pricing Algorithm Has Two Completely Different Strategies for Rank 1
A single undercut strategy made rank-1 products cheaper every run, burning margin that the price gap already gave away for free.
Code SampleFailureConstraintScaling Limit
Open technical proof7 min read