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Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

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Post by mSparks »

sctb wrote: post #9
mSparks wrote: post #5

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First i felt like yawning. But who knows maybe people are interested in paying to scrape websites. Pretty sure they'll face some hefty legal fees fairly sharpish tho. Scraping now being illegal in many countries. Then i found the website doesnt work properly in landscape and the intro video doesnt work at all and thought. What chance have these guys got of doing decent contextual mining from websites if they cant eve…

Please read the commenting guidelines for Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

maybe you should.

---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

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hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.

Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

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Post by diggernaut »

mSparks wrote: post #11
sctb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please read the commenting guidelines for Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

maybe you should. ---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. ____ hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.

thank you for your opinion, we noted it. By the way you are paying for using cloud resources, not for using technology, you can compile digger, download it and run for free at your own server or computer. And you can do it with free plan. So Im not really sure why we are discussing cost of our subscription plans :) We are in beta, so we would really appreciate some feedback about user experiece when they using website, visual extractor, or compiled diggers. Legal side of web scraping is heavily depends on country you live in.

Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

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Post by bdcravens »

mSparks wrote: post #11
sctb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please read the commenting guidelines for Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

maybe you should. ---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. ____ hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.

Your comments seem targeted at their website, which is obviously an off-the-shelf theme from Themeforest or the like. (one I know I've seen before) It's not particularly well-done, but their service isn't building websites. Many a startup has their blog on Medium, or perhaps self-hosted Wordpress instance, and you could echo the same concerns.

Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

#14

Post by mSparks »

diggernaut wrote: post #12
mSparks wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe you should. ---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. ____ hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.

thank you for your opinion, we noted it. By the way you are paying for using cloud resources, not for using technology, you can compile digger, download it and run for free at your own server or computer. And you can do it with free plan. So Im not really sure why we are discussing cost of our subscription plans :) We are in beta, so we would really appreciate some feedback about user experiece when they using websit…

legally speaking

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/linkedin-sues-scrapers/

Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

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Post by diggernaut »

disruptalot wrote: post #10
diggernaut wrote: post #8

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Thanks a lot, we are working on a long list of changes to make make mobile users experience better, added your feedback to the list

Also can't watch the intro video :(. It's not responsive to the screen width.

Thank you guys for all these feedback for using website on mobile, we fixed index page, video should work now on phones, so as price list and also footer. And now fixing signup page for mobiles :)

Re: Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets

#17

Post by mSparks »

bdcravens wrote: post #13
mSparks wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe you should. ---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. ____ hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.

Your comments seem targeted at their website, which is obviously an off-the-shelf theme from Themeforest or the like. (one I know I've seen before) It's not particularly well-done, but their service isn't building websites. Many a startup has their blog on Medium, or perhaps self-hosted Wordpress instance, and you could echo the same concerns.

The service is understanding the intracacies of html and webservices of any and every kind.

while negotiating a legal minefield.

So I would not echo the same concerns to any startup with a blog on wordpress or medium.

I would however echo similar concerns if an audiophile startup made an introductory youtube video with the sound so distorted and broken you couldn't understand what they were saying.

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