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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Widget and marketplace statuses
- Chat widget connected on the marketing site
- Marketplace status check before refresh
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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