Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
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Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#2Hi Hacker News! We've been working hard on Spotbot for the past couple months and are looking forward to your feedback on what we've built. @mgc and I will be around all day to answer any questions.
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#3Super excited to try this — as an early start-up (and the founder in charge of UI), I KNOW our site has UI issues but I don't have the time to do full inspections.
What kind of "changes need attention" will Spotbot tell me about?
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#4I understand slack integration for some tools, but is this slackbot-as-a-product thing going to become the new fad? What if I want to use your tool without using slack?
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#5I understand slack integration for some tools, but is this slackbot-as-a-product thing going to become the new fad? What if I want to use your tool without using slack?
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Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#6We use Percy.io for this and can't recommend it enough. It integrates with your CI workflow, which makes a whole lot more sense to me than waiting until production. (Or to be fair, staging.)
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#7Super excited to try this — as an early start-up (and the founder in charge of UI), I KNOW our site has UI issues but I don't have the time to do full inspections. What kind of "changes need attention" will Spotbot tell me about?
Right now it checks your site every 24 hours, and we try to alert on things that might actually need a person to verify (ie, not animations or videos).
We're in the process of building moderation tools so that you can refine what's important to you, and we're really excited about building training a model to be able to highlight changes that are probably broken. We're starting at square one though :)
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#8I can see this working for static pages, not sure about pages that require input, user login, or display constantly changing data.
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#9We use Percy.io for this and can't recommend it enough. It integrates with your CI workflow, which makes a whole lot more sense to me than waiting until production. (Or to be fair, staging.)
Percy is awesome, no doubt. We're a little different than Percy though.
We don't require any code. Setup is just entering a URL. Percy doesn't really require code either, but it relies on you having already written integration tests.
We do structural diffing, not pixel diffing. Pixel diffing can be challenging to view as a developer since innocuous changes can cause massive visual pixel diffs. With structural diffing we can have a better idea of exactly what changed and highlight those regions.
We're definitely going to be integrating with CI workflows and non-production sites as well :)
Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs
#10I understand slack integration for some tools, but is this slackbot-as-a-product thing going to become the new fad? What if I want to use your tool without using slack?
I was thinking the same thing. I'm interested in trying it out, but do I really feel like setting up slack for a side project when I'm the only one that works on it?