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Show HN: The Honeybadger
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- lancefisher 15y agoThis is a useful, simple tool. Thanks!
- mmahemoff 15y agoLooks good. I can't see the video right now but are you looking at /humans.txt? Might contain useful info.
- jaequery 15y agoNever heard of humans.txt before but it sure looks interesting.
- lowglow 15y agoSweet. I'm currently looking for a new job, so this will definitely help me evaluate potential companies. Thanks a ton. :) Edit : Single gripe to an otherwise very cool project. When I click on HB, and switch to another tab to look up the names of the people, it closes out HB for that tab I was on so I have to go through clicking again. Any chance you can get this to persist and maybe add some google anchors to the entities HB provides?
- jaequery 15y agoI found that Chrome has a pretty nifty thing called "Webkit notification" that persists across all tabs. Maybe it's something I can try experimenting with just for this purpose.
- dabent 15y agoI found this not just to be useful for people researching potential competitors or partners from a startup perspective, but it's also useful for someone who's researching a potential employer. It provided a fairly accurate snapshot of my current employer for example. It might be nice if Honeybadger could also provide links to sources for further reading. Basically a "Google it for me" feature that would save a few more clicks and keystrokes. If it gets good enough, maybe it could work as a freemium service, should you decide to go that far. But I'm impressed with what you've put together so far.
- jaequery 15y agoAppreciate the comment! I like the concept of that, it goes in the same line of thought where I was thinking in the lines of "sites like this / alternatives", can be useful. especially when you are shopping for stuff online.
- jsavimbi 15y ago> also useful for someone who's researching a potential employer Exactly. Thanks for sharing, will definitely find uses.
- zwass 15y agoSources. I need to know what sources you're getting the information on a site from. Twilio, for example, shows 16 employees which is quite outdated. Just a little footnote would do.
- jaequery 15y agoright now it's crunchbase and angellist.
- jaequery 15y agoguys, i've just added support for SEO (backlinks, keywords, indexes, pageranks)
- jaequery 15y agoIt looks like Traffic section will not be available as I'm over the quota limit from compete.com. Major bummer. Anyone know of any other free alternatives out there to get traffic stats about sites?
- jaequery 15y agoUnfortunately compete.com has a 1,000 reqs/day allowance ... so expect to see a lot of "Honeybadger don't care" message. I'm going to try to see how much the api costs and see if I can get the quota removed.
- johns 15y agoEmail someone there and offer to include their logo and a link in exchange for a higher limit. API limits are almost always negotiable.
- jaequery 15y agook just did, hopefully we can work something out. thx :)
- joshmanders 15y agoJust set it up so there's an options.html where you put in your own API key, and make users signup for Compete themselves. Problem solved.
- bemmu 15y agoThe Chrome SEO extension includes that stat.
- jcampbell1 15y agojust link to the images... http://grapher.compete.com/site_media/snapshot/ycombinator.com_uv_us.png http://grapher.compete.com/site_media/snapshot/ycombinator.c...
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- rvenugopal 15y agoThis is quite a time saver and works well most of the time. However, I get this message for a few sites "Honeybadger could not retrieve any data about this site or he simply doesn't care." e.g. sites, http://www.westelm.com/ http://www.westelm.com/ http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/ http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/
- jaequery 15y agoThanks rve. For those sites you mentioned, Honeybadger actually cares a lot, but the honeybadger only knows how to pull in data from the crunchbase/compete.com at the moment. It's just an mvp at this stage but expect to see some more as time progresses.
- andrewcooke 15y agoit would be great if you could avoid showing the H in the address bar (or grey it out) for such sites (i can't see how you do this without hitting your server on every site, which i imagine you are trying to avoid - but perhaps you are smarter than me :o)
- masonhensley 15y agoCan someone explain to me the difference between a MVP and a a cool side/personal project? Jaequerry, I'm going to install it and check it out. The extension looks cool. It solves a pain for me, but not one I would go to the trouble of paying for (sorry). I'm genuinely confused as to what the difference is between all the free non revenue generating chrome extensions made out of love and one made by an HNer that are labeled as potential products (which implies revenue generating to me). Which category are you gearing this toward? Is your desire to monetize this? If so how? I feel kinda harsh, but there have been a few Show HN MVP posts lately that have been confusing me regarding the line between potential revenue generating products and nifty side projects. Note: I failed at a project hard this month after pouring 8 months of my life into it... I am probably having one of those days.
- jey 15y agoIt's a difference in the author's attitude toward the project. A person who feels that they're building an MVP will be looking for ways to monetize it, while for "just a side-project" monetization might be an after-thought or explicitly not an objective.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoDon't feel bad. I ask myself this for about 80% of the projects I saw posted here on HN. I used to ask the posters themselves, but I rarely got any answers beyond a vague "we'll sell advertising." Really? Do you have any experience in sales of any kind, let alone advertising sales? My (somewhat cynical) guess is that what used to be called a "side project" is now getting the title "MVP" or "startup" because it sounds cool. I should add that this is a general note, not directed at this particular project.
- Skywing 15y agoI'm not sure if the title of the original post was changed or not, but after reading over the linked website, I did not see any mention of him charging for this. It appears to be a free extension that he is sharing.
- jslabaugh 15y agoSeems to me that a MVP implies that there will be further iterations coming.
- jrberger 15y agosmall UI tweak: change funding amount display from e.g. $400,000.00 to $400k
- djbender 15y agoWhat's with the piggybacking name?
- tstonez 15y agoNot to be the forebearer of "seen this before" type comments but... * Duedil has a pretty nice Chrome extension (currently companies registered in UK & Ireland only) - http://www.duedil.com/?share=c99a9be592 http://www.duedil.com/?share=c99a9be592 * Some guy at Polaris Ventures (I never heard of them either) built a Chrome extension pulling CB, Quora and LinkedIn - http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/polaris-insights-extension/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/polaris-insights-extension/ [TechCrunch's somewhat superfluous write up]
- riffraff 15y agointeresting, maybe you could steal some ideas from polaris insights[1], such as showing linkedin informations data [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/golfffpdocdndgkahjdgofkbcoiefdmo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/golfffpdocdndgkahj...
- tstonez 15y agoOn the plus side. I dig the name. Any animal that can chow down a poisonous snake, pass out, then shake it off like it was just a hangover is just fine by me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U [skip to 2:50]
- MichaelGagnon 15y agoAugmented reality for the web
- jamiequint 15y agoThis is awesome. I use WebRank SEO for this for a lot of stats but the funding info I find myself looking up all the time.
- phankinson 15y agoReally cool. You may even get some additional data from AngelList.
- jaequery 15y agojust added it, thanks
- lindacambrian 15y agoAwesome. Great job! It's simple and useful.
- nchuhoai 15y agoI really liked to use Apture for this use case.
- akadien 15y agoHoneybadger don't give a shit. It just takes what it wants.
- brandnewlow 15y agoOh man, I was just wanting to have an extension like this myself yesterday. Installed!
- FPSDavid 15y agoAny chance for a FF version of this?
- tectonic 15y agoMight I suggest adding (my) UnderTheSite.com to display technical details? Contact me if you want any integration help.
- jaequery 15y agothat was definitely on top of my to-do list! is there an API somewhere for it?
- tectonic 15y agoAwesome! An API is in the works, but in the meantime I suggest just grabbing http://underthesite.com/sites/<domain>.com http://underthesite.com/sites/<domain>.com and DOM parsing the simple markup. Let me know if you have any questions.
- jaequery 15y agothats a really cool site you have there, once i get this implemented, i'll make sure to backlink it to your site to give credit where it's due :)
- Samuel_Michon 15y agoPlease adjust the kerning of the "Testimonials" heading on your site -- there's a ginormous space between the 'T' and the 'E'.
- robk 15y agoEvery VC associate will be using this in a matter of weeks!
- snampall 15y agoNice. I can see myself using this a lot. Thanks for sharing.
- adrianwaj 15y ago"The icon will be visible when the plugin can act on the current page" Does the plugin send every new domain or url back to your server? Would you say there are any privacy or bandwith issues? note: the current info window on my browser is only about 4 characters wide when the icon is pressed.
- ibadaxx 15y agoCool stuff! Found a bug though: It recognizes local files (file:///Users/...) as a website and still displays the Honeybadger icon