Hi, I am involved in price comparison for other categories of products.
One idea is, that before you integrate many price APIs, build price scraping software, create custom scripts for the website, affiliate accounts, etc. -- you build a static version of the website. Then you show this to people in the target audience and see how they use it, and if they are interested at all. From there you iterate, improve and grow organically.
I am not sure if physical movies are the best product category from an ad/affiliate point of view, but it's not terrible either, especially if you are interested in them yourself and understand the market and how they can be standardized in a price database. If there are many variations/versions of the same film, you may discover that it will take some serious effort to write a script that finds matches between different vendors and unifies them into one SKU.
Consider that very few people own one DVD or blu-ray. They either have none, or hundreds. Say they want five or more different DVDs -- you should be able to give them not only the cheapest vendor for each, but the cheapest in total for all five, or price-optimized further and split into multiple shipments. (Shopping optimization)
One idea is, that before you integrate many price APIs, build price scraping software, create custom scripts for the website, affiliate accounts, etc. -- you build a static version of the website. Then you show this to people in the target audience and see how they use it, and if they are interested at all. From there you iterate, improve and grow organically.
I am not sure if physical movies are the best product category from an ad/affiliate point of view, but it's not terrible either, especially if you are interested in them yourself and understand the market and how they can be standardized in a price database. If there are many variations/versions of the same film, you may discover that it will take some serious effort to write a script that finds matches between different vendors and unifies them into one SKU.
Consider that very few people own one DVD or blu-ray. They either have none, or hundreds. Say they want five or more different DVDs -- you should be able to give them not only the cheapest vendor for each, but the cheapest in total for all five, or price-optimized further and split into multiple shipments. (Shopping optimization)