SS.LV Auto Deal Monitor - AI-Powered Car Deal Finder

Real-time car deal detection system built for Latvian marketplace SS.LV:

PROBLEM SOLVED:

• Manual searching through 1000+ daily car listings is time-consuming
• Hard to know true market value without comparing dozens of similar cars
• Missing good deals because they sell within hours

SOLUTION:

• Automated scraping every 15 minutes (2,880 checks/month)
• 50,000+ car database with median price calculation (not skewed by outliers)
• Instant Telegram alerts when deals appear (15%+ discount)
• Daily digest reports at 20:00 with statistics and top deals

TECH STACK:

• PHP for scraping & processing
• MySQL database (15K+ records, growing daily)
• Telegram Bot API for instant notifications
• Cron jobs for automation
• MEDIAN algorithm (professional real-estate approach, not average)

KEY FEATURES:

• Smart duplicate prevention
• Fuel type matching (diesel vs petrol comparison)
• Year range tolerance (±1 year)
• Minimum comparable cars threshold (5+)
• Historical deal tracking (2,000+ deals found)
• WhatsApp & Telegram sharing
• Anti-cache system for fresh data
• 7-day log rotation

RESULTS:

• 50,081 cars in database
• 5,039 good deals identified
• Average discount: 25-50%