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Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by enraged_camel »

amelius wrote: post #28
delta1 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even for a programmer I'd argue that $5/mo is less than potentially having to fuss around supporting your own junk.

However, if it breaks ...

So what? It's not like it's an essential service. If it were, it wouldn't be $5/mo.

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by elbii »

quineoa wrote: post #31

For some reason this website is blocked on my company's network. "The site you are trying to access may pose a security threat..." Maybe (hopefully not) they blanket block certain TLD's. Anyone else experiencing this?

Blocked here via Cisco WSA as well.

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by robjan »

quineoa wrote: post #31

For some reason this website is blocked on my company's network. "The site you are trying to access may pose a security threat..." Maybe (hopefully not) they blanket block certain TLD's. Anyone else experiencing this?

All .xyz (and most of the new gTLDs) are blocked by Forcepoint Security on our corporate network as "Elevated Exposure - Sites that camouflage their true nature or identity, or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent"

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by conductr »

Cool. I think there is a missed opportunity with onboarding. Seems like it would be worth testing out a landing page where instead of "Signup" is the CTA, the act of creating a schedule is the CTA. Maybe something like, "What link would you like to follow?" then prompting a "What frequency?" then "What's your email?"

So you know where I'm coming from - I wanted to see it in action, hit signup, saw I needed to do the whole user registration email/password dance as step #1 and bounced out. Too much friction for me, as I was a casual visitor with an unknown use case at the moment. Maybe once I see it in action I would discover use cases.

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by billconan »

foxhop wrote: post #30

I'm the founder of https://linkpeek.com and "email web page screenshots" was on my "idea" Trello board for over 3 years. I'm actually happy somebody else created it. : ) Good luck with your launch!

is linkpeek a profitable business? what's the use cases for screenshot services?

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by billconan »

petetnt wrote: post #15
chrismorgan wrote: post #8

What’s the expected use case for this?

Regression (or other production malfunction) reporting for example.

but then, you need image recognition do you? how do you know there is a regression? by manually looking at the image?
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