💽 DiskPrices Clone: The Price Tracker for Tech Heads

“Every niche product has obsessed buyers. Your job? Build the tracker they bookmark.”

🧠 What Is It?

DiskPrices.com is a simple, no-frills price comparison and tracking tool for SSDs, HDDs, and external drives. It aggregates storage product listings across e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Newegg, etc.) and sorts them by price per gigabyte.

But here's the secret: This isn't just a comparison site — it's a bookmark-worthy utility for PC builders and data hoarders.

🎯 Why It Works

• Extreme niche appeal: Tech-savvy users want maximum GB per dollar.
• Price sensitivity: In storage, people always want the cheapest deal per TB.
• Low competition: It’s ultra-specific. Not many are targeting “price per GB” long-tail keywords.
• Set-and-forget SEO: Product pages rank with minimal updates if structured right.

🛠️ Key Features to Steal

1. Price Per GB Sorting

• Users sort by efficiency (e.g. $0.024/GB) — not just by lowest price.
• That single feature makes it feel utility-grade.

2. Product Categories

• Internal SSD
• External SSD
• Internal HDD
• Portable HDD
• M.2 NVMe
• SATA

Easy to expand to other niches: SD cards, USB drives, RAM, GPU VRAM/$, etc.

3. Affiliate Redirects

• Clicking on a listing redirects to Amazon or Newegg with an affiliate tag.
• Passive monetization baked into utility.

4. No Blog, No Noise

• No content fluff. Just value and conversion.
• You can add blog later for long-tail SEO, but this site wins through tool utility.

💸 How to Monetize

1. Amazon + Newegg Affiliate Links

• Most storage deals convert well on Amazon.
• Bonus: People often buy more than 1 item in the same cart.

2. Google AdSense

• Add non-intrusive sidebar or footer ads for passive monetization.
• High RPM due to tech/PC building audience.

3. Email Alerts / Price Drops

• Add opt-in: “Get notified when 4TB SSD drops below $200.”
• Build a tech gear newsletter → cross-monetize with affiliate deals.

4. SaaS Expansion (Optional)

• Add features like:

  • Historical pricing graph
  • Storage calculator (“how many games can fit in 2TB?”)
  • Comparison charts

Charge $5/month or lifetime access for power users.

⚙️ How to Build Your Own Version

🔍 Pick Your Niche Tracker

Don’t just copy SSDs. Steal the model and apply it elsewhere:

🛠️ Tech Stack (Simple Route)

• WordPress + custom post types + ACF + TablePress
• Or use Airtable + Softr + affiliate embed buttons
• For advanced users: build with Django, Node.js, or Laravel

📦 Auto-Import Data

• Use Amazon Product API, SerpApi scraping, or import manually with CSV
• Update every week or via cronjob/API pull

🔗 Parasite Stack Bonus

• Create price tracker mirrors on:

  • Substack (as newsletter of weekly drops)
  • Google Sites (as stripped-down mirror)
  • Notion (with embedded Airtable)
  • Reddit (post weekly “best deal” threads)
  • Medium (“Best 1TB SSDs under $100 in 2025”)

Use them to rank and push traffic to the main site.

🧠 Final Thoughts

This is the comparison site playbook done right:

• Pick an obsessive niche
• Track what they care about (e.g. $/GB)
• Keep UI clean, fast, mobile-friendly
• Plug in affiliate links and wait

The best part? Once it ranks, you barely need to touch it — just update prices and let the site do the work.

This is SEO SaaS without the SaaS.