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Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)

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Type in URL and keyword to look for, set search interval and forget it. Once keyword you are looking for appears on site you will receive email notification with short description and link to article (hopefully :D :D :D)

Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)
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Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder?

App looks good, was thinking about creating something like this for my own use. My use case would be for monitoring a forum 'Whats New' page so we can be alerted if a thread is started about our business. But we would need the alert much more frequently (every hour at least), and wouldn't want the same alert over and over again.

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Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder? App looks good, was thinking about creating something like this for my own use. My use case would be for monitoring a forum 'Whats New' page so we can be alerted if a thread is started about our business. But we would need the alert much m…

looks like DNS is kind janky. google didn't put my confirmation email into spam though.

Re: Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)

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fast and nice clean interface. I would like to see a 'run now' button when adding a thing to watch to see if it works immediately. do you have a specific target audience for this?

Honestly this is something i had in mind for my personal use. It still need lots of work on search engine to look for links smarter and return less not working links.

About audience, well i think anyone could find good use of this. But mainly its good for monitor news sites like cnn bbc aljazeera and so on, and those sites i primary used for testing so it should have best results on them.

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post #3

Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder? App looks good, was thinking about creating something like this for my own use. My use case would be for monitoring a forum 'Whats New' page so we can be alerted if a thread is started about our business. But we would need the alert much m…

looks like DNS is kind janky. google didn't put my confirmation email into spam though.

sorry guys it works on my private mail and web server. DNS used is one from godaddy (its where my domain is). I'll iron this things in next days!
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