Introducing Homegadgets Canada!
I have been building and improving this site for the past ~3 months or so. The initial idea is simple: an authoritative way to find the best price across 20 product categories covering kitchen appliances and home electronics such as TVs, soundbars, laptops, monitors, mirrorless/action cameras, lenses and more, accounting for approximately $20B of yearly consumer spending in Canada.
It currently covers 17,000+ unique SKUs across 80+ Canadian retailers (Best Buy, Leon's, RONA, Visions, Costco and many more, smaller/regional players, plus live Amazon price checks) and over 100 leading brands. More retailers are being added weekly at this point. Made in Canada, for Canadians.
It's far from perfect, and a few measures have been taken to drastically reduce operating costs. Some categories are endemically hard to compare by design: laptops especially, where one product family can have hundreds of unique SKUs (multiple choices on processor, RAM, storage, colour, keyboard layout, screen, ports, etc.), which often means only one retailer carries any given configuration, making true comparison nearly impossible. On the other hand, kitchen and laundry appliances, cameras, unlocked phones, and others are far more homogeneous in retail channels, so those compare cleanly. That said, you can filter most laptops cleanly getting the specs you may want, at the range of prices provided.
Prices are currently refreshed weekly, but that cadence will increase progressively to daily, and eventually to true on-demand price comparison later this year. The focus now is in stabilizing the site, managing major seasonal new catalog inputs (e.g. post Consumer Electronics Show, IFA Berlin, MWC Barcelona, Computex Taipei, etc)
Here are a couple of tools (currently in beta) I'm excited about, and here's the reasoning behind them:
1. Ask Google for a price: say, "LG 5.2 cu-ft front load washer WM3400CW", and you get a page of sponsored results ranked by who paid most, then by whoever has "better" SEO. Finding the actual cheapest often means digging pages deep. And the price differences could be from a few cents to hundreds of dollars.
2. Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. the same thing and you get the "best" from whatever's on that first results page.
So, in addition to regular product search by category, name, MPN and multiple filters, price history on the site, and even side-by-side spec comparisons of TVs and others, I also built:
1. AI search on the site (/ai), where you can ask more complex and specific questions like "cheapest 22 cu-ft French door fridge from Samsung or LG that ships to Vancouver."
2. An MCP server (already live for Anthropic's Claude; ChatGPT and Gemini coming soon). So, if you use an AI assistant that supports connectors, you can query Canadian prices directly from it.
Other roadmap features include price alerts, barcode reader, and many more features enabled via an iOS and Android app as well as browser extensions.
So, if you're in the market for a major appliance or anything across the 20 categories currently covered, give it a shot. Find a bug or something broken? Tell me here or use the "Report a Bug" form: /report-bug. I definitely welcome your feedback; the good, the bad and the ugly.
Two final notes: the site has a handful of affiliate relationships (Amazon and others) implying that it may earn some affiliate revenue through used links. They do not affect how prices are ranked. And this is a solo, independent project done in my free time.
Thanks for checking it out. If it works for what you are looking for, Super! And tell your friends! If not, let me know as well and I will try to fix it!
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