alhassan-sowe/gambia-price-watch

# Gambia Price Watch > **Don't show people CPI. Translate CPI into decisions.** A personal cost-of-living intelligence platform built for **Hack4Gambia 2026 — Challenge 3: The Cost-of-Living Blind Spot**. **Live demo →** _[gambia-price-watch.vercel.app]_ --- ## The Problem Many Gambians feel prices rising but cannot say by how much or on what. Official monthly price data exists, but as index numbers in a spreadsheet that mean nothing to a market vendor, a mother budgeting, or a small shopkeeper. --- ## The Solution Gambia Price Watch turns Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS) Consumer Price Index data into answers ordinary people can act on: | Instead of this | We show this | |---|---| | "Food CPI is 198.7" | "Food has nearly doubled since 2020" | | "National inflation is 7.0%" | "Your personal inflation is 6.2%" | | Index table in a spreadsheet | "That bag of rice cost D1,006 in January 2020" | --- ## Features ### 1. Purchasing Power Bars Animated bars showing what D100 from January 2020 buys today — for every category. The single most intuitive way to communicate 5 years of inflation. ### 2. My Inflation Calculator Enter monthly spending on food, transport, and electricity. Get your **personal inflation rate** and a breakdown of which category is driving it most. Three persona presets (Market vendor, Household, Shopkeeper) for instant results. ### 3. Price Memory Tool Enter what you pay today for something. Select any earlier month back to January 2020. Get the estimated past price — instantly. ### 4. Price Trends Interactive line chart of all four CPI categories (January 2020 – October 2025) with a toggleable **6-month forecast** extension (dashed, labelled as a model-based projection). ### 5. Year-on-Year Analysis Inflation rate chart with the 2022–2023 crisis annotated. Shows the September 2023 peak: **18.5% overall, 24.4% food, 34.9% electricity & fuel**. ### 6. AI Cost-of-Living Analyst Conversational interface grounded in real GBoS statistics …