cheapskate.ai

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📝 About the Project
💡 Inspiration
Haggling on Carousell is a WAR CRIME against your sanity. Lowballers ghosting you, boomers yelling "FIRM PRICE LAH," and sellers who think S$1.2k for a scratched iPhone 12 is "BNIB." We said ENOUGH. Channeling Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference, we birthed cheapskate.ai—the negotiation bot that haggles harder than your auntie at wet market.

🤖 What it does
cheapskate.ai: Your personal Carousell chaos manager that turns "WAHHH TOO EXPENSIVE LA" into "OK LAH S$XXX can?"

Search & Snipe: Finds your dream iPhone 15 under S$1k while you Netflix & chill
Auto-Haggle: Deploys Ackerman model + Voss mind games = sellers crying into their teh tarik
Mission Control: Tauri dashboard with 3FPS live stream (yes it looks like 240p YouTube but SHH)
24/7 Stalker Mode: Watchdog sniffs new message badges like a desperate Tinder user
Memory Like Elephant: Reads chat history so it NEVER asks "Still selling?" after seller says "SOLD"

🏗️ How we built it

🧠 The Brain: Playwright puppeteering Chrome + Ollama/Gemini LLMs whispering sweet nothings (lowballs). Chat directly with agent via Gemini API!
🫀 The Heart: Python Bridge Server (aka "Why won't frontend talk to backend HELP")
🎨 The Glow-up: React+Tauri with glassmorphism so shiny your eyes water
🕵️ Stealth Mode: JS injection to hide webdriver fingerprints (we're basically browser spies now)

🚧 Challenges we ran into

"Flushed" Viewport: Playwright's fixed window size made Carousell layout explode like bad ayam penyet
Flickering Hell: Live stream looked like Japanese horror film. Fixed with "Atomic Move™" file swaps
Context Amnesia: LLM kept forgetting chat history like your ex. Built Smart Sync™ DOM reader
Auth Nightmare: Sessions timing out mid-haggle = AUTOMATION DEATH. Saved cookies locally + 2FA token magic

🏆 Flexes we're proud of

100% Hands-Free: Spots message → inbox → haggle → profit. Your only job: count savings
Aesthetics: Dashboard so clean Elon Musk would recruit us for Dogecoin
Voss Magic: Bot drops "Seems like you're firm on price?" and sellers actually BUDGE

🎓 What we learned
Browser automation = 90% waiting for loading spinners, 10% copy-pasting selectors. Tauri = web devs finally escape Electron bloat. Patience > code.

🔮 Next Level Chaos