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Show HN: Monitor websites for changes and send scraped data to a webhook

29 points by omneity 7y ago

omneity 7y ago
Hello HN, Monitoro is a service I built to watch websites for changes, scrape data, and whenever the data changes, send it to a webhook of your choice. 2 months ago, I shared this project on Hacker news and got a very warm reception. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398524 Since then, I have learned a lot in this space and from usage patterns from our several hundred users, as well as extended research and insights from veterans in the industry. I refined the concept (including much requested premium plans), added Chrome rendering and included a programmable layer in Javascript, and would love to hear your feedback on it! For an overview of the changes, take a look here: https://monitoro.xyz/whatsnew https://monitoro.xyz/whatsnew
onesmalluser 7y ago
There seems to be a lot of competition of other people doing this. What is special about yours?
- omneity 7y ago
  Could you please refer which competition you have in mind exactly? We're laser focused on extracting data, transforming it and sending it to webhooks. No other service to our knowledge achieves a similar result with the same (low) effort required by Monitoro. Beyond that, our focus really is to be a trigger to your automations, and in that regard expect more specific functionality targeted at this space, beyond what we are providing already.
  - egfx 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781869 recently posted...
    - omneity 7y ago
      We’re barely out of the MVP stage, but I already see at least two major differences: - Javascript based custom transformations - Specific focus on Webhooks (we’re compatible out of the box with Slack, Google Chat, Discord and really whatever else has a webhook API) Not everything that says “Change tracking” is the same product.
    - omneity 7y ago
      Another significant differentiator: We're the only vendor in the entire space providing a cloud native, on-premise option, compatible with any cloud vendor (no lock-in to AWS, Azure or anything else)

29 points by omneity 7y ago

Hello HN, Monitoro is a service I built to watch websites for changes, scrape data, and whenever the data changes, send it to a webhook of your choice. 2 months ago, I shared this project on Hacker news and got a very warm reception. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398524 Since then, I have learned a lot in this space and from usage patterns from our several hundred users, as well as extended research and insights from veterans in the industry. I refined the concept (including much requested premium plans), added Chrome rendering and included a programmable layer in Javascript, and would love to hear your feedback on it! For an overview of the changes, take a look here: https://monitoro.xyz/whatsnew https://monitoro.xyz/whatsnew

onesmalluser 7y ago

There seems to be a lot of competition of other people doing this. What is special about yours?

omneity 7y ago
Could you please refer which competition you have in mind exactly? We're laser focused on extracting data, transforming it and sending it to webhooks. No other service to our knowledge achieves a similar result with the same (low) effort required by Monitoro. Beyond that, our focus really is to be a trigger to your automations, and in that regard expect more specific functionality targeted at this space, beyond what we are providing already.
- egfx 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781869 recently posted...
  - omneity 7y ago
    We’re barely out of the MVP stage, but I already see at least two major differences: - Javascript based custom transformations - Specific focus on Webhooks (we’re compatible out of the box with Slack, Google Chat, Discord and really whatever else has a webhook API) Not everything that says “Change tracking” is the same product.
  - omneity 7y ago
    Another significant differentiator: We're the only vendor in the entire space providing a cloud native, on-premise option, compatible with any cloud vendor (no lock-in to AWS, Azure or anything else)