Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball

An indie site called Price Per Ball sorts Amazon golf balls by their price per ball, and the crowd went wild. Fans cheered the no‑nonsense vibe, comparing it to the beloved diskprices and calling it a “great niche site.” One wag even said it’s “begging for an ad for golf lessons” to fix your slice, because, well, those lost balls add up.

Then the ball sailed into the rough: a premium listing appeared as $169.95 for a single ball, but it’s really for four dozen. Commenters blamed Amazon’s messy “unit count” field, and the thread turned into a rules‑lawyer showdown over dozens vs balls and how to keep the math honest. Another noted the second‑priciest listing counts dozens in the unit field, adding to the confusion.

Enter the robots. A commenter proposed feeding the title, unit count, and description into an AI (a large language model, or LLM) to figure the real ball count and sanity‑check pricing. That sparked a friendly divide: purists want to keep it simple and hand‑tuned; AI fans want a bot caddie doing the counting. Meanwhile, nostalgic web folk applauded the plain HTML, typing “excellent work” and reminiscing about sites that do one job and do it well. Net mood: love the tool, roast the glitch, and argue whether simplicity or smart tech should clean up the fairway.