Hotelglitch blog

Notes from the team. Glitch retros, scraper engineering, the occasional rant.

• 2026-04-28

  How Glitchfinder catches a price error

  Anatomy of a glitch: from the moment a retailer mistypes a price to the moment a Discord message lands in your phone.

• 2026-04-28

  The 5% floor: why we reject scam-priced rows

  Why a $17.99 ASUS laptop never makes it into your alerts, even though the scraper said so.

• 2026-04-28

  No hostels, no capsules: why Hotelglitch ignores half of Google Hotels

  How the rate filter dropped "$23 LA hotel" alerts without dropping real deep-discount listings.

• 2026-04-28

  Star-rating override: watching the listing tier you actually care about

  min_stars=2 for budget hunters, min_stars=5 for luxury sniping. Here's how each setting changes what survives the filter.