Smells like Shopify!
What does this have to do with Shopify?
https://monitorbook.com/user/sign_in
https://example.myshopify.com/admin/auth/login
Very similar styling
:)
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#32Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...
If your target audience is HN users, consider this comment. However, I've found in my analytics that most users don't care about the type of login. You can't please everyone. If a website has only username and password, there's a complaint. If a website only has OAuth, there's a complaint.
"most users don't care about the type of login"
Majority of the population get paid, minority of the population go pay.
Same theory works here.
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#33Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web
#34Has there been work after RSS to improve pub/sub protocols for websites to notify customers of changes/deltas, without the need for wholesale scraping?
I'm not aware of anything, but if someone else has some input I'd love to hear about it. FWIW, I believe Amazon does have an affiliate api that lets you search through the catalog. Same with Ebay, Alibaba, and most of the major companies. The only one I can think of that doesn't is Craigslist.
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that it's intentional on Craigslist's part. Due to the first come first serve nature of a lot of the free listings, it means that 'honest'/non-tool assisted users would never get a look in.
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#35Nice website. Do you have plans to release an extension or an app for this? I have been using Distill Chrome extension[1] to monitor pages with dynamic content with pages that require authentication.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/distill-web-monito...
Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web
#36Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...
How do you remember which one you created an account with?
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#38How does this handle HTML changes over time ? I believe this will store a URL + Selector , then periodically scrap the page over time. just curious what happens if the page changes later.
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#40Very cool.. but what's the implication on the legal side? Many of the sites forbid "automated" scraping of their sites.(sure they can be all circumvented). On that note, what about sites like kimonolabs (http://www.kimonolabs.com), they also let you create an API on top of an existing webiste. I imagine it's done by scraping. Would love to hear some thoughts.