Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by ggiaco » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:46 PM UTC

adzicg wrote: post #3

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

just tried this for our app, and it wrongly reported mandrill and flash (we’re not using any of them). we used mandrill a few years ago, so this might be some stale historical data, but the app never used flash.

What's the URL? We can report back exactly why it was picked up.

Even if we're wrong, it's exactly this kind of feedback loop that's built into the product and ultimately helps make the data better for everyone else.

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by pvg » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

You already did a Show HN on this, though...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249136

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by afloatboat » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

In order for me to actually use your service it would need to be rolled into a browser extension. This needs to be at your fingertips when you need it, now I need to copy-paste the url into a new tab. I use Wappalyzer [1] a couple of times a day and love the browser integration.

[1] https://wappalyzer.com/

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by ggiaco » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:51 PM UTC

afloatboat wrote: post #13

In order for me to actually use your service it would need to be rolled into a browser extension. This needs to be at your fingertips when you need it, now I need to copy-paste the url into a new tab. I use Wappalyzer [1] a couple of times a day and love the browser integration. [1] https://wappalyzer.com/

Got you covered https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sitestacks-for-chrome

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by scaryclam » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:58 PM UTC

Had a quick go and was pretty disappointed. Most of this is just having a look at the third party js loaded. Other things are wild guesses based on DNS, which has nothing to do with the website but are either out of date or reside in unassociated parts of the business. The tech stack detection was was almost entirely wrong :(

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by ggiaco » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:58 PM UTC

bootcat wrote: post #6

doesn't http://www.builtwith.com/ do this already and have so much data too ?

Yeah, and they're not the only provider you can point to. Some competition pushes everyone to do better?

Here's my pitch for why you might want to use SiteStacks with a browser extension:

Lightweight: The extension is only 25 KB (mostly images). The one-click technology lookup runs entirely on our servers. No content insertions or background processes to slow down your browsing. It's like your favorite search engine.

Secure: SiteStacks doesn't download any of your browsing data - only the active tab URL is passed along.

Great product coverage: SiteStacks is supported by Siftery and its library of over 40,000 products. SiteStaks includes data for some products that isn't publicly available anywhere else.

Best-in-class accuracy: The data on SiteStacks benefits from validation form the awesome Siftery community. This built-in constant feedback loop helps us identify data collection methods that are yielding bad data and ultimately promotes best-in-class data accuracy.