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Show HN: 1 week project, website screenshots emailed to you and archived daily
- derwiki 13y agoLast Thursday, I built a simple service that took a screenshot of a supplied URL (sitegazer.herokuapp.com). It became very popular on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612286) and quickly failed to scale. The residual traffic has resulted in about 500 URLs snapped though -- enough to motivate me to continue the project. DailySiteSnap is actually what I set out to build (SiteGazer was an MVP) because I wanted to track the visual/design progress of my other project, CameraLends. The payment plans haven't been wired in, so right now all accounts are still free. Please give feedback if you have any! I plan to launch the paid features in the upcoming week.
- japhyr 13y agoThis is such a cool idea! I'm a little confused about the pricing. If we sign up now, is it like a free 1 week trial? All of my projects are open source. Would you consider offering this service free to open projects?
- apierre 13y agoI am wondering if there isn't any copyright infringement like derivative work when you grab a webpage and then do some monitoring on it through your website. It is worth asking a lawyer. Otherwise I think this is a cool project too.