Startup Idea: Market Research Tool for Ecommerce Businesses

Startup idea to develop a software that helps ecommerce businesses, particularly in specialized industries, to efficiently aggregate and compare information on competitor's offerings. Features may include tracking types of products, prices and options offered by other online businesses in a similar industry. Purpose is to facilitate effective market research for small businesses and offer a cost-saving alternative to expensive services.

I have a problem with my ecommerce business. It's difficult to compare my offerings to others on the market (I'm in a specialized beverage industry). It would help if there was a software that helped search for other online businesses that sell the same products as mine, and aggregate information on them so I could better compete. Examples of info: type of product, prices, options on products. Almost like a market research collector for small online businesses. None of the information would be difficult to get (it could just be pulled from competitor's websites), but the time it takes to gather it and put it all together organized is what the software would be saving. Yes but it seems to usually be offered as an expensive service rather than using software. I do this research myself now or have my employees do it.