Get inspired
You could build anything with Goaddon. Feel free to read through our project ideas. Some could be usefull for your ecommerce company, others could be offered to ecommerce companies by you as a service provider.
What do you get from Goaddon?
By subscribing to the Goexplore addon you get a website that online shops can use to sign up.
By subscribing to the Gofetch addon you enable the merchants to import their orders and products into your database.
If you install the explorer-at-goexplore repository, your website even get a products page that you can add your price suggestions to.
What do you need to build on top of it?
So by now you have a website where a shop can sign up and enable the recurring import of orders and products into your database.
You would need to integrate this website with an application of your own, one that can manage background processes. That application should recurringly go through the products in your database and match them up with offers from competitors.
The screen scraping algorithm would be quite complicated, but not at all impossible.
If you build this for your own shop you could pre-determine which competing stores should get scraped. If you sold this as a service to other shops you should let them register their competitors.
You also have access to order data. So you could even calculate how your price suggestions effect sales volume, and then take these learnings into account when making new suggestions.
How fast can you build it?
Building an algorithm to scrape websites and match up products could take many months. We are working on an addon that you can use to easily adjust prices in the ecommerce platforms.