Drop Beacon

Drop Beacon is a product intelligence platform for EDC (everyday carry) collectors. We track 80,000+ products across 1,100+ brands in real time — knives, fidgets, flashlights, pens, wallets, and more. The problem: drops sell out in hours, the same product appears at different prices across multiple retailers, and resale values are completely opaque. Collectors spend as much time hunting for products as carrying them. Drop Beacon solves this with automated scraping of 1,100+ storefronts every hour, cross-retailer price comparison, 16,000+ secondary market listings for resale intelligence, and an AI Market Analyst that answers natural language questions with live data. Every product page shows price history, variant availability, and where to buy at the best price. Sold out? We show what it's trading for on the secondary market. Available at multiple stores? We show who's cheapest. Built by a solo developer using Claude Code in six weeks. Next.js 15, Neon PostgreSQL, 16 automated cron jobs. 95,000+ SEO-indexed pages. MCP server published to npm and Anthropic's registry so AI assistants can query our database directly. Monetized through affiliate partnerships (5 active), Pro subscriptions for advanced analytics, and brand intelligence reports. The data moat, pricing history, sell-through velocity, resale patterns, gets more defensible every day. edc4me.com