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Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

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Post by johnaveri »

spyder wrote: post #45

Result of a quick try: Tracking YouTube views doesn't work (shows "null") Tracking HN points doesn't work (shows "null") Tracking Reddit comment count works.

Thanks for letting us know (I'm one of the members of the Monitorbook team). HN was working till a few days until a few days ago. I will look into it. We have done our best to support as many websites as possible but it is not a surprise that our scrapper is not perfect yet. We will keep working on it :)

Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

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Post by johnaveri »

omouse wrote: post #49

Very cool, I like it. Only comment is that you should try and get the video zooming in on where the mouse is or do some close-ups of the screen. It was hard to see exactly what was going on and it felt closer to a techie screencast than to a customer product demo. Is it possible to track the price of an ipad mini on craigslist? ;p

We will try to put up another video with better quality within the next few days. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

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Post by johnaveri »

non-sense wrote: post #35

Nice 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...

Yes, the plan is to release a browser extension pretty soon. With the extension you will be able to track content in pages which require authentication. We also have an iOS app in the works so that you can check your trackings on the go, and receive push notifications.

PS: I am a member of the monitorbook team

Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

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Post by matrixagent »

wspeirs wrote: post #10

Why 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...

I don't mind creating an account, but I'd let users try the product without one. I don't want to go through signing up – no matter if via OAuth or creating a dedicated account – just to find out the product doesn't suit me due to some details I could not find out by the page or video. Unless absolutely unreasonable, I think you should always allow users to test your product anonymously.

Re: Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

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Post by baruch »

I use websec as a cron command to do that for pages I care for and implemented at some point an app in python I called NoticeThat that fell into oblivion as I had no idea how to market it.

It's nice to see someone catering to that use case who can actually execute on it.

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