Hello, first post here (in fact first post ever on Reddit - I'm a long-time lurker). 

Just came on to share a sideproject I've built over the last few months. It's called Get Games Cheap and it's a price comparison tool specifically for digital console games (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo). 

**The problem** \- games are bloody expensive these days, often going for £70+ at launch. 

**What my site does** \-  It tracks official store prices, discounted gift cards from trusted resellers, and game key prices - then calculates the cheapest route an algorithm to find the optimal gift card combination. It also flags physical media options via Google Shopping.

The secret sauce is it automates 'gift card stacking', taking advantage of store credit that is available for less than face value. No other website does this to my knowledge. 

Here are a few deals it is throwing up right now to give you a flavour: 

* Resident Evil Requiem on PS5 - ~~£64.99~~ £61.85 via Gift Card Stacking - save £3.14 / 5% vs official PlayStation store price
* Pokémon Pokopia on Nintendo Switch 2 - ~~£58.99~~ £55.88 via Gift Card Stacking - save £3.11 / 5% vs official Nintendo store price
* Crimson Desert on Xbox Series X|S - ~~£54.99~~ £45.99 via Game Key - save £9.00 / 16% off vs official Xbox store price

**How I built it**

* React/Vite frontend on Google Cloud (Cloud Run + GCS)
* Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Edge Functions + Storage)
* Node.js scrapers (Puppeteer) running on a Mac Mini via cron
* Python parsers and a DP-based price baker
* Cloudflare for CDN/DNS/Workers (SPA routing + crawler meta injection)
* Blog on Hugo/Cloudflare Pages

I work in charity fundraising by trade, and I'm not a developer at all. This project has been a journey through AI coding tools. I started on Replit, which got the initial concept off the ground. Then moved to Gemini/Google AI Studio, which helped expand the scraping pipeline. I then arrived at Claude Code, which is where things really accelerated - the architecture matured, the frontend was overhauled, and new features became much easier and quicker to implement. Each tool taught me something different about building with AI, but Claude is where the product went from prototype to something I'm genuinely proud of and able to launch.

Some things I'm proud of:

* Tracks 116K+ games across 3 platforms and 2 regions (UK/US)
* Gift card stacking engine finds combinations humans would struggle to find
* ShopTo membership tier pricing (Silver/Gold discounts) factored in automatically
* Physical game price suggestions via Google Shopping API
* Currently supports four game key / gift card resellers

Live at [https://www.getgamescheap.com](https://www.getgamescheap.com) \- free to use, no signup needed.

Would love feedback on the UX, clarity, deal quality, or anything else. What would make you come back?

I built a price comparison engine for digital console games - finds the cheapest route by stacking discounted gift cards