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Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

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Shameless plug: http://shoov.io/

Looks pretty cool!

I like that the tool itself is open source.

We found that pixel diffs were pretty unwieldy for a lot of different scenarios. How do you deal with, say, a div inserted at the top that pushes all the content on the page down 50px?

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My app is a social network. A social network means that the two most important pages (global stream and user stream) continuously mutate because there is always new user-generated content. Now, humans are very good at catching bugs there; if a the name of the user goes above the avatar picture next to it, humans will see it immediately. But how can a tool like Spotbot not to be confused by all the normal changes in u…

Right now we're not great at it. However, the way Spotbot works means that we will be decent at it soon. We do a hash of the structure, so we know exactly what kind of changes there are. For something like your page, the image sources, the text, the names, the votes, and other content change all the time. Soon we'll have a way to ignore those changes while still recognizing that other changes need to be vetted. So, f…

Thanks! I'm a little hesitant because it sounds a little like magic, but I'm happy to help with testing it, should you need testers. Any place I can subscribe for updates?

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

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I 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?

Agreed - I was ready to sign up until I realized it was slack alerts, not emails.

I'm wondering if it's related to Slack providing seed money for startups [1].

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/12/15/slack-app-investment-fund/

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

#35

Hi 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.

Justin,

People cannot try free, your servers are responding with 503s. I tried to email you from your contact link on website (hi@spotbot.qa) and was undeliverable.

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

#36
post #28

Shameless plug: http://shoov.io/

Looks pretty cool! I like that the tool itself is open source. We found that pixel diffs were pretty unwieldy for a lot of different scenarios. How do you deal with, say, a div inserted at the top that pushes all the content on the page down 50px?

Shoov uses webdriverCSS under the hood, so you can simply remove/ hide/ exclude that div.

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

#38

Hi 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.

Justin, People cannot try free, your servers are responding with 503s. I tried to email you from your contact link on website (hi@spotbot.qa) and was undeliverable.

Well the email thing is pretty embarrassing, just fixed. I wrote "hi@spotbot.qa" and set up an email for "hello@spotbot.qa". Face palm.

We are experiencing a lot of load (or we were until we went down). We scaled up and things seem to be working better now.

Re: Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

#39
post #37

Hi 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.

"Pool is destroyed"

No longer destroyed!
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