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price tracking dashboard

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A website that tracks US food prices every day

Shown by hubraumhugo on Sep 21, 2026. Click the card to turn it over.

29points

11comments

#1,653of 4,366 in 2026

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2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.

Design: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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Chart x-axis is unlabeled
From 2 comments
- Why is x axis unmarked? Is it hours, days, years, bananas?
  dvh on HN
- It's the past year, but yeah, it should indicate that more proximally to the axis.
  happytoexplain on HN
Egg price looked wrong until wholesale vs retail tab was clarified
From 2 comments
- $0.80 per dz eggs seems wrong??
  pkthunder on HN
- That is the wholesale price. Click on the "Retail" tab.
  morninglight on HN
Government data trustworthiness is doubtful
From 1 comment
- is government data even trustworthy anymore at any level for any reason? they've fired everyone and replaced them with a few sycophants (you think those job numbers are real…
  ck2 on HN

Sortable tables, especially by percentage change
From 2 comments
- Excellent! One suggestion, /food-prices/retail table sortable by column asc/desc just like in commodities I like ordering by percentage desc to see the highest price jump
  Kuyawa on HN
- Would love sorting capabilities
  still-learning on HN
Composite index value on top
From 1 comment
- Shouldn't you show a sensible composite index value on top?
  OutOfHere on HN

How was history backfilled when reports had none
From 1 comment
- Interesting, how did you backfill the data if there were no history on the reports?
  okship on HN