The Trackbee blog

Notes on prices, affiliate economics, and quietly building software in Berlin.

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Why we take a screenshot instead of scraping the DOM

Most price trackers parse HTML. We render the page and read the picture. Why that choice survives more site redesigns than anything we tried first.

What your shopping extensions are really selling

A tour of where browser-coupon and price-tracker extensions actually make their money in 2026. Spoiler: it's almost never the feature you installed them for.

M
Marius

Why every byte of Trackbee runs in Europe

Plenty of EU-headquartered companies still ship user data through US-based clouds. We took the longer road. Here's what that actually costs us — and why it's worth it.

L
Lena

Why we only show 30 days of price history

Other trackers brag about year-long charts. We deliberately don't. A short note on signal-to-noise and what the data actually tells you.

M
Marius