--- title: "Building Things, Spending Money: iPhone Duo Stock Alert | yjsoon" description: "I got tired of waiting till January for my iPhone Duo order, and I didn’t want to spend $30 for alerts on a website, so I made a tool to get alerts for iPhone Duo for in-store pick-up." canonical: "https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-11-09-iphone-duo-stock-alert/" language: "en" --- # Building Things, Spending Money: iPhone Duo Stock Alert 9 Nov 2026 In this week’s reminder that “*you can just build things now*”, I got tired of waiting till January for my iPhone Duo order, and I didn’t want to spend $30 for alerts on a website, so I made a tool to get alerts for iPhone Duo for in-store pick-up. Unfortunately for my wallet, it worked. I adapted from a couple other existing repos out there, and cleaned things up so you could, in theory, point your agent at this repo, prep the free ntfy app (sends push notifications), keep a machine with NodeJS running (or use Cloudflare; free tier should work), and you should be able to get fairly up-to-date notifications whenever the local Apple Store has a Duo of your choice in stock. Check it out at [this GitHub repo](https://github.com/yjsoon/duo-stock-tracker) (point your agent at it). You still need some level of tech knowledge to set it up, but if you’ve tried just a bit of agentic building, it should be doable! Let me know if you need help setting it up, and I can yell at my agent some more to make the instructions clearer. You really can just build things now. ![My new agentic coding setup with the Logitech Keys to Go 2 and the Amp iOS app. I nearly don’t need a laptop now!](https://yjsoon.com/_astro/cda01a63-duo-setup.CsHv5JuK_Zx6B6G.webp) My new agentic coding setup with the Logitech Keys to Go 2 and the Amp iOS app. I nearly don’t need a laptop now! To discuss, or if you feel compelled to press some kind of reaction button, feel free to comment on the [LinkedIn version of this post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7525485664939966464/). * * * - [ai](https://yjsoon.com/tags/ai/) - [coding](https://yjsoon.com/tags/coding/) - [vibe-coding](https://yjsoon.com/tags/vibe-coding/) - [projects](https://yjsoon.com/tags/projects/) * * *