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For some odd reason, the tool didn't get any replies on Reddit, HN, AlternativeTo.net or GitHub, despite looking fairly sophisticated. The dev is also non-profe

For some odd reason, the tool didn't get any replies on Reddit, HN, AlternativeTo.net or GitHub, despite looking fairly sophisticated. The dev is also non-professional. Maybe I am bad at digging, but I couldn't find anything about siteone.io. The entire situation is strange. Older discussion with one reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292651

efilife 2y ago
Maybe people ignore it because there are already many tools like this. I was tempted to not look, but checked it out anyway
netsharc 2y ago
My cynical 2 cents: First impression is that the above-the-fold webpage looks like a page out of a kindergartner's book. 2 sentences with different bright colors. The red heart (the cynic in me cringes when it sees all those "Made with (heart)" lines). The cartoon character logo... I scrolled down, and the video with the cartoon font? Oh god, that reminds me of an exchange student at uni who used a Teddy Bear PowerPoint template for a presentation.
- janreges 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! That's my job :-| I'll ask my fellow designers to improve it in the near future - as a backend developer I obviously fail a lot in graphical sensibility, or I'm just a kid with a need for child fonts ;)
andrei-akopian 2y ago
Post mortem: janreges is according to the website (siteone.cz) one of the top 3 people at his company, and the tool and website look well made. By "non-professional" I meant that there is some kind of mismatch between my expectations and the style he replies to people here. I was trying to establish the oddity of the situation to encourage more digging, and didn't express my point clearly enough. My apologies to janreges. I know my own expertise and social sense are bad, so please don't take any of this to heart.
- janreges 2y ago
  There's no reason to apologize, man! :) On the contrary, I am very grateful for this post and your proactivity :-*
yawnxyz 2y ago
yeah and it looks really full-featured and well-done, while many other crawlers/scrapers with way less get way more stars
- janreges 2y ago
  Yes, the tool has a lot of features, settings and usage options. I believe that many people will like the tool and help promote it themselves.
internetter 2y ago
Very small amount of sourcecode: Under 20k by my count. Are they outsourcing the actual crawl to a different tool?
- mistaken 2y ago
  It seems to contain the crawler: https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler/blob/main/src/Crawler/Crawler.php https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler/blob/main/src/Cr...
- janreges 2y ago
  SiteOne Crawler offers 2 open-source tools: 1) command-line version (which is the core of the crawler itself): https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler 2) a graphical application for Win/macOS/Linux, which is just a wrapper over the command-line version and displays the output from it through Xterm: https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler-gui https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler-gui
salesynerd 2y ago
The parent, SiteOne, seems to be a well-established IT company in The Czech Republic. Hopefully, they will gain more traction in the near future.

efilife 2y ago

Maybe people ignore it because there are already many tools like this. I was tempted to not look, but checked it out anyway

netsharc 2y ago

My cynical 2 cents: First impression is that the above-the-fold webpage looks like a page out of a kindergartner's book. 2 sentences with different bright colors. The red heart (the cynic in me cringes when it sees all those "Made with (heart)" lines). The cartoon character logo... I scrolled down, and the video with the cartoon font? Oh god, that reminds me of an exchange student at uni who used a Teddy Bear PowerPoint template for a presentation.

janreges 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! That's my job :-| I'll ask my fellow designers to improve it in the near future - as a backend developer I obviously fail a lot in graphical sensibility, or I'm just a kid with a need for child fonts ;)

andrei-akopian 2y ago

Post mortem: janreges is according to the website (siteone.cz) one of the top 3 people at his company, and the tool and website look well made. By "non-professional" I meant that there is some kind of mismatch between my expectations and the style he replies to people here. I was trying to establish the oddity of the situation to encourage more digging, and didn't express my point clearly enough. My apologies to janreges. I know my own expertise and social sense are bad, so please don't take any of this to heart.

janreges 2y ago
There's no reason to apologize, man! :) On the contrary, I am very grateful for this post and your proactivity :-*

yawnxyz 2y ago

yeah and it looks really full-featured and well-done, while many other crawlers/scrapers with way less get way more stars

janreges 2y ago
Yes, the tool has a lot of features, settings and usage options. I believe that many people will like the tool and help promote it themselves.

internetter 2y ago

Very small amount of sourcecode: Under 20k by my count. Are they outsourcing the actual crawl to a different tool?

mistaken 2y ago
It seems to contain the crawler: https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler/blob/main/src/Crawler/Crawler.php https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler/blob/main/src/Cr...
janreges 2y ago
SiteOne Crawler offers 2 open-source tools: 1) command-line version (which is the core of the crawler itself): https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler 2) a graphical application for Win/macOS/Linux, which is just a wrapper over the command-line version and displays the output from it through Xterm: https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler-gui https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler-gui

salesynerd 2y ago

The parent, SiteOne, seems to be a well-established IT company in The Czech Republic. Hopefully, they will gain more traction in the near future.