For the past three weeks we focused on the dashboard. No flashy marketing feature, just three small things that you will notice every single time you look at your trackers. Here they are.
1. „Bought" — check off instead of delete
Before, you had two options for a tracker once you'd actually bought the product: delete the tracker (losing price history, target price and everything else) or just leave it running (and keep getting alert mails when the price drops further — even though the product is already on your shelf).
Now there is a third option: click the check mark on the tracker card, optionally enter the price you actually paid, and the tracker stays in your list, but:
- No more emails, no Telegram messages, no push notifications
- The price history keeps being recorded — you can look back and see how good your deal was
- You can re-activate the alert with a second click whenever you want
Useful for example when you bought a device as a present but stay curious whether you hit the right price point.
2. Bulk actions — clean up in one go
After a year of using DealMonitor with 30, 50 or more trackers, the list can get crowded. Previously you had to open each tracker individually to delete it or move it to a different group. That's better now.
The dashboard header has a new „Select" button. Click it and you enter bulk mode: every tracker card gets a checkbox, a floating action bar shows you how many trackers you currently selected, and you can:
- Delete multiple trackers at once — with a confirmation dialog, no undo
- Move multiple trackers at once — into an existing group or out of the current group
A few deliberate design choices: bulk mode and drag-and-drop reordering are mutually exclusive (otherwise click-to-select and click-to-grab fight each other). And „mark as bought" is deliberately not part of bulk actions — that action asks for an individual price per tracker, which doesn't make sense in bulk.
3. Mobile dashboard — finally thumb-friendly
This was by far the most frequently reported issue: on mobile the action icons were tiny and squeezed next to each other — your thumb would land on the wrong one. We rebuilt the tracker cards on mobile from scratch:
- Bigger product images so you can recognize what you're looking at
- Action buttons stacked into their own row instead of crammed side-by-side
- Minimum 44-pixel touch targets — that's Apple's HIG recommendation for good touch UX
Desktop looks unchanged. Only mobile gets the new layout — breakpoint at 640 pixels screen width.
Small side improvements
Three bonus things we shipped along the way:
- Shared links get cleaned up. When you copy a product link from WhatsApp or any other app, you often get text like „Check out what I found on XY! https://shop.com/product" with the link buried in the middle. That used to confuse the tracker creation dialog, now DealMonitor automatically extracts the URL and ignores the surrounding text.
- Patreon and Ko-fi in the footer. If you want to support DealMonitor you can do it directly now — either monthly via Patreon or one-off via a cup of coffee on Ko-fi. DealMonitor stays completely free; the support helps us with server costs and development time.
- Better reliability under the hood. We defused two common sources of false alerts: shops doing a maintenance update (HTTP 503) are no longer reported as „price not detectable", and our scrape backend now cleans up after itself more reliably when a browser process gets stuck.
What's next?
May is mostly infrastructure work behind the scenes: persistent browser sessions for more stable price detection, and load-based auto-scaling of our scrape backend. Plus the Microsoft Edge version of the browser extension. If you have topics or features you'd like to see — a short mail to [email protected].
