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Yes — the project is Apache 2.0 licensed ( https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/tree/master?t... ), which permits forking and commercial use. There's also a COMMERCIAL_LI…

Yes! Exactly this direction — the hybrid fetch is already live: plain HTTP first, Chromium if the content looks off. LLM semantic targeting is the next step, but only triggered whe…

I'm planning to add proxy rotation across different regions to help with geo-restricted content and rate limiting. Anti-bot is an arms race though — some sites just can't be monito…

Yeah, semantic anchors are definitely the right direction — [data-testid], aria-label, or text proximity tend to survive rebuilds much better than class paths. The picker leans tow…

The selector is stored as a CSS path and matched against the fetched HTML on each check — so as long as the element's structure and nesting stay roughly the same, minor layout chan…

Not stupid at all — the docs were missing an RSS page, which is on me. I've just added one: https://docs.sitespy.app/docs/dashboard/rss . RSS feeds are available per watch, per tag…

Yes — it's a fork of changedetection.io. I went into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349141 . The RSS link you spotted was a leftover, already fixed

Fair point, and I should have been upfront about this earlier. The backend is a fork of changedetection.io. I've built on top of it — added the browser extension workflow, element …

Yeah, RSS is free on all plans — it felt like a core feature, not an upsell

You can already work around the rate-limit issue today — there's a global minimum recheck interval in Settings that spreads checks out across time. Not per-site throttling yet, but…

Yeah, that was a real bug — CSS transitions on the body were blocking the thread during theme switches. I pushed a fix for it earlier today. Should be smooth now, but let me know i…

Site Spy keeps snapshot history, so you can revisit older versions of a page and inspect how it changed over time, not just get the latest alert. I’d describe it more as monitoring…

German laws and bureaucracy pages are exactly the kind of thing where tracking one specific part of a page is much more useful than watching the whole page. And yeah, more control …

Thanks, that’s a really good question. Site Spy uses a real browser flow, so it generally handles JS-rendered pages much better than simple HTML-only polling tools. In practice, th…

Yep, urlwatch is a good one too. This category clearly has a strong self-hosted tradition. With Site Spy, what I’m trying to make much easier is the browser-first flow: pick the ex…

That’s a completely fair concern. Services in this category do need to earn trust over time. I built the backend to handle a fair amount of traffic, so I’m not too worried about gr…

Yep, changedetection.io is a good project. With Site Spy, I wanted to make the browser-first workflow much easier: install the extension, connect it to the dashboard, click the exa…

Yep, Site Spy already has push notifications, plus email and Telegram alerts. I see RSS as the open interface for people who want to plug updates into their own reader or workflow.…

I built Site Spy after missing a visa appointment slot because a government page changed and I didn’t notice for two weeks. It watches webpages for changes and shows the result lik…