Founder built a power tool price comparison site after hitting the problem firsthand
Starting a new meant stocking a shop with power tools — drills, saws, grinders — and every purchase hit the same wall: no central place to find the cheapest price for a specific model. Google Shopping results were a mess, mixing bare tools with full kits, wrong model numbers, and no-name sellers. That meant checking 8 across retailers like Home Depot and Amazon by hand for every tool.
Recalling AmmoSeek, a price-comparison engine for ammunition, the founder realized nothing similar existed for tools and built ToolHoard. It tracks a tool's price across major US retailers and only counts a listing once it verifies the same exact model, so a bare drill isn't compared against a full kit. It filters out fake "was $400, now $200" discount tricks, prices with markup baked in, and out-of-stock or sketchy sellers.
The site is still early, covering about 90 tools, mostly popular Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, and Bosch cordless products.
Key points
- Built to solve manually comparing power tool prices across 8+ retailer tabs
- Inspired by AmmoSeek, an existing price-comparison engine for ammunition
- Only lists a product once it confirms the exact same model, avoiding bare-tool vs. full-kit mixups
- Filters out fake discount pricing, -marked-up prices, and sketchy or out-of-stock sellers
- Still early stage, with roughly 90 tools listed, focused on Milwaukee/DeWalt/Makita/Bosch cordless gear