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28 releasesAugust 2023 → May 2026

Product changelog

Nearly three years — from the first Python script in 2023 to a SaaS price-monitoring service: four marketplaces, price history, verified deals, a browser extension, REST API/Webhooks, BI exports, and team workflows.

2026
Site redesign, deals, and teamwork
5 releases
  1. May 2026
    #Design#Deals#SEO

    Full palert.ru redesign and SEO optimization

    • Full redesign of every landing page with improved typography and responsiveness
    • Better preview generation for pages and groups
    • SEO markup and Open Graph previews for social networks
    • Clear error handling when generating images
  2. April 2026
    #Telegram#Workspace

    Team and Telegram notifications

    • Support images load faster and open in a convenient viewer
    • Telegram notifications work more reliably in team chats
    • Resending photos is faster thanks to caching
    • News broadcasts about important product changes
    • Gentle reminders for inactive Free users
    • Likes and reactions on deals
    • Freshness check for deals in the feed
    • Launched the About and Case Studies pages
    • Added flows for individual plans
  3. March 2026
    #Deals#Workspace

    Deals system and team alerts

    • Deals section with filters, search, and analytics
    • Automated screening of products that may end up in the deals feed
    • Deal alerts and per-platform subscriptions
    • Split products from a single search into different lists
    • Best price of the day by region
    • Mobile PWA is more resilient to accidental swipes
    • Telegram group linking for team alerts
    • Workspace: invite coworkers, owner alerts on join/leave
    • Extended product analytics with additional periods
  4. February 2026
    #Deals#Queue#Verification

    Deals feed and verification queue

    • Verified deals feed
    • Automated deal screening for products
    • Share a search via link
    • In-stock badge in the UI
    • Pin products to the top of the list
    • Brand, seller, and category queue with dedicated processing
    • Geolocation augmented with country code
  5. January 2026
    #Activity#News#Subscription

    Activity feed and product news for users

    • User activity section with filters by year and event
    • News alerts about releases and important product changes
    • Accurate daily product counters
    • Migration of product categories with localization
    • Subscription checkout with fiscalization settings
    • Support for AZN currency
    • Region-aware prices + default region
2025
Extension, push notifications, ideas board, and fast charts
12 releases
  1. December 2025
    #ClickHouse#Search#Auth

    Price history moved to ClickHouse

    • Price history migrated to ClickHouse with query optimization
    • Region-aware prices
    • Public search links with automatic cleanup of old tokens
    • Sign in with Yandex
    • System notice in the UI
    • Excluded SKUs inside a search
    • Target-price tracking through the extension
    • Product processing is faster thanks to cleanup and caching
  2. November 2025
    #Purchases#Alerts#Search

    Purchases module and security

    • “Purchases” section with a form and management
    • Deactivate and delete account
    • Alerts on login from a new device
    • Alerts on ideas and comments with author avatars
    • Login and auth activity log
    • Merge searches with SKU and link transfer
    • Alerts for suspiciously low prices vs. the historical average
    • Proxy support from multiple sources with priorities and rotation on errors
  3. October 2025
    #Ideas#Push#Extension

    Ideas board, push notifications, and the extension

    • Ideas board: chat, voting, moderation, statuses
    • In-browser push notifications
    • Landing page for the Chrome extension
    • Pull-to-refresh on mobile
    • Auto-disable links on repeated errors
    • Expandable group filter and image refresh
    • Infinite-scroll cards for searches
  4. September 2025
    #Extension#Data collection#Filters

    Extension and “other sellers” filter

    • API handler for the browser extension
    • “Other sellers” filter in the product list
    • Lamoda SKU support in tracking
    • Normalization of Yandex Market image URLs
    • More stable proxy and API key handling
  5. August 2025
    #Lamoda#Images#Purchases

    Lamoda, extra images, savings widgets

    • Launched tracking on the Lamoda marketplace
    • Gallery of extra images in the product card
    • Image loading optimizations
    • Filter by period
    • Savings widgets on the home screen
  6. July 2025
    #Manager#Support

    Manager panel and AI support

    • Manager panel with filters and actions
    • AI assistant in support
    • Template versioning and an updates stream
    • Column visibility controls in tables
    • Auto-disable the Telegram channel on errors
  7. June 2025
    #Templates#AI

    Group templates and AI suggestions

    • Group template snapshots with sharing
    • Reworked AI suggestions and categories
    • Stepper in the product wizard
    • Filters for cross-border shipping and product relationships
  8. May 2025
    #Bulk actions#Sorting

    Bulk actions and public groups

    • Bulk actions on searches
    • Group sorting and public access links
    • Price chart right inside the product list
    • Link validation for supported marketplaces
    • IP masking in demo-mode logs
    • Yandex.Metrica connected
  9. April 2025
    #Beta#Auth#AI

    Beta mode and AI request accounting

    • Securely sign out from all active sessions
    • AI request cost accounting
    • Beta mode for users
    • Sync of AI categories and titles
  10. March 2025
    #Landing

    Widget and marketplace statuses

    • Chat widget connected on the marketing site
    • Marketplace status check before refresh
  11. February 2025
    #Kazakhstan#Public links

    Kazakhstan and public links

    • Tracking on ozon.kz and lamoda.kz
    • KZT currency mapping
    • Brand and seller URL extraction
    • Tests for collecting public data from any site
    • Public links for product groups
    • “Originals” and “cross-border” filters in the search form
  12. January 2025
    #Subscription#Charts

    Plan groups and support widget

    • Plan groups: Free / Basic / Pro / Premium
    • Redrawn pricing modal
    • Support widget on every page
    • Localized dates on charts
    • Archive notifications
    • “Markdown items” filter
2024
Foundations, push notifications, and savings tracking
8 releases
  1. December 2024
    #Savings#Alerts

    Savings counter

    • Savings tracking with widgets on the home screen
    • Purchase logging
    • Enhanced Telegram + email alerts
    • Time zone in notification settings
    • Improvements to tracking Ozon and Yandex Market products
  2. November 2024
    #WebSocket#CSV

    Push notifications and CSV

    • Fast push notifications
    • Import / export searches as CSV
    • Charts and images load faster
    • Reworked WebSocket notifications
    • Tracking “other offers” on Ozon
  3. October 2024
    #Sessions#Cookies#Email

    Sessions, cookies, notification channels

    • User sessions with region detection
    • Cookie banner
    • Notification channels by type
    • Search by name with marketplace links
    • New proxy service for more reliable public data collection
    • Email and password change with confirmation
    • Acceptance of the user agreement
  4. September 2024
    #AI#UX

    AI suggestions and UI improvements

    • AI suggestions in the price table
    • AI product filter
    • Step-by-step search wizard
    • Theme polish and network indicator
    • Telegram message polish
    • Convenient multi-value selection in filters
  5. August 2024
    #Dashboard#Alerts#PWA

    Home dashboard, alerts, PWA

    • “Recent searches” widget and per-marketplace charts
    • Price alerts via Telegram and email
    • Required and excluded words
    • Install Palert as a PWA
    • Image generation for the UI
    • Public data collection from Lamoda
    • Demo account with limits
  6. July 2024
    #Auth#Alerts#Localization

    External sign-in, alerts, and localization

    • Sign in with Google and Telegram
    • Notifications page
    • Profile redesign with the user's current data
    • Localization to Russian and English
    • Phone number management
  7. June 2024
    #Analytics#Filters

    Product analytics and “Best offer”

    • Product analytics with price history
    • “Best offer” block and per-marketplace filter
    • Group archiving, price field, ratings
    • Sortable product list
  8. May 2024
    #Launch#SaaS

    Project launch

    • First version of Palert — a Vue 3 web app on a Bitrix backend
    • Tracking for products on Ozon, Wildberries, and Yandex Market
    • Search and group management
    • REST API authorization
2023
From a Python script to a Flask service — the idea is born
3 releases
  1. December 2023
    #Architecture#Bitrix

    Decision to build Palert as a SaaS

    • Picked Bitrix as the service foundation: ready-made admin and REST API
    • First web prototype with auth and personal dashboards
    • Redis for caching and task queues
    • Python stays on public-data collection — wrapped around the Bitrix REST API
    • Working project name: Price Alert → Palert
  2. October 2023
    #Flask#Auto-run#Web

    Price Alert — a mini-site on Flask

    • Flask app with a form to add product links
    • Scheduled automatic public-data collection
    • HTML page with a product list and price history
    • Simple storage for price history
    • First users — friends who asked for access
  3. August 2023
    #Python#Data collection

    First Python script

    • Public-data collection from Ozon and Wildberries pages
    • Price and title extraction via page tags
    • Saving price history to a CSV file
    • Run from the command line — no UI
    • Personal task: track the price on a couple of products to buy

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