GoldPrices v1.0.0
The first public release of GoldPrices establishes the project as a bilingual gold pricing platform built for the UAE, GCC, Arab markets, and selected global reference regions.
This release turns the project into a usable public product with live market tracking, calculator tooling, regional market coverage, historical views, export capability, and a browser-friendly architecture designed to remain useful even when live data is unavailable.
What this release includes
Core product foundation
- Live XAU/USD spot-linked pricing
- Local currency estimates across supported markets
- 7 purity-adjusted karat views
- Multi-page architecture for landing, tracking, calculators, insights, and methodology
Tracker capabilities
- Live market workspace
- Historical archive and date lookup foundations
- Country comparison flows
- Local alerts and saved presets
- Export-ready tracker outputs
Calculator suite
- Gold Value Calculator
- Scrap Gold Calculator
- Zakat on Gold Calculator
- Buying Power Calculator
- Weight Unit Converter
Regional and bilingual support
- English + Arabic interface
- RTL support
- Country-specific pages across GCC, Levant, North & East Africa, and selected global references
Browser and platform features
- CSV / JSON export support
- Service-worker-backed offline-friendly behavior
- PWA manifest and installable shortcut support
- Local persistence through browser storage
- GitHub Pages deployment
Why this release matters
This version establishes the real product identity of GoldPrices.
It is no longer just a collection of pages or pricing experiments. It is now a structured front-end gold platform with clear regional positioning, transparent price logic, and the foundations required for stronger charting, better exports, broader country coverage, richer alerts, and more advanced user workflows.
Platform direction from here
Planned next-step priorities include:
- deeper tracker interactivity
- better historical charting and archive depth
- stronger mobile UX polish
- improved SEO for market and methodology pages
- broader export and data-packaging support
- more complete country-page coverage
- more premium front-page documentation and media assets
Live links
- Main Site: https://vctb12.github.io/Gold-Prices/
- Tracker: https://vctb12.github.io/Gold-Prices/tracker.html
- Calculator: https://vctb12.github.io/Gold-Prices/calculator.html
- Wiki: https://github.com/vctb12/Gold-Prices/wiki