AIMarkDeck
AIMarkDeck keeps a record of what AI and SaaS tools actually cost, and when that
last changed.
The problem I built it for: you compare two tools, one is $27/mo and one is $97,
so you take the cheap one. Then you find out it takes a percentage of every sale
you make, and by month three the cheap one costs more. That number is almost never
in the comparison table. The reason isn't laziness, it's funding. Most directories
are paid by the vendors they list, so they can't publish that a paying customer
quietly takes a cut of your revenue.
So AIMarkDeck does one boring thing properly. Every price is read off the vendor's
own pricing page by hand and published with the date it was read. Not "verified",
not "always up to date", just the date, so anyone can check me. When a price moves,
that change shows up on the site. Around 135 tools in there so far.
Stack: static Astro, hosted on Cloudflare, everything version controlled in GitHub.
Content and pricing come out of a database so pages generate rather than getting
written one at a time, which is what makes covering thousands of long tail
comparison queries realistic for one person.
Solo build, running for under $50 a month. It's early and rough in places.
Feedback welcome, especially on whether the "checked on [date]" stamp is actually
useful to you or whether you just want the number.
