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by jijosunny 9y ago
Thanks @fevangelou! Appreciate you taking time to drop your suggestions. Dynamic icon - I agree with you that it can be quite convenient to display the top technology (preferably the CMS). We will think about this as an option in the future
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by jijosunny 9y ago
WR currently considers subdomains as a part of the main domain. Most users like to know the full tech stack of a website. If there is a blog at blog.company.com and if it is using Intercom, it can be a useful data. I hope this makes sense.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
@samblr First off, thank you so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the info we're providing. To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information – including IP address, location etc. W
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Awesome. Thank you so much for your kind words. Addressing your concerns, 1. Thank you ;) 2. Devs are looking into this. Neglecting .Net/Windows wasn't intentional. We will work on this. 3. Yes, WR currently considers subdomains a
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Yes, WR currently considers subdomains as a part of the main domain. Most users like to know the full tech stack of a website. If there is a blog at blog.company.com and if it is using Intercom, it can be a useful data. I hope this makes se
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Comparing with Wappalyzer and BuiltWith, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better): 1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them). 2. Ability to follow sites (and know what
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Chrome team handpick their featured products; I don't think we can buy the status. We know 15k is not a lot (comment was pun intended), but it looks like a good start :)
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by jijosunny 9y ago
We started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects. Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well! Also, our counterparts got a ma
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by jijosunny 9y ago
How about 15k happy users, featured by Google Chrome, transparent extension and top of HN and PH? ;) On a serious note, I understand your point and realise how new extensions can be dangerous. However, we have a very good team and is trying
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by jijosunny 9y ago
@korzun I'll explain. We use several signals like code snippets, filename, directory name, header info and several others to accurately identify technologies. However, there are many possibilities where this can go wrong even with few
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Extensions show you all the technologies used on a website. It does not redirect you to this page. However, if you click on a particular technology from the extension, you'll be taken to the respective tech's page which has a sma
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by jijosunny 9y ago
That is if you access from Chrome. Please head over to our 'Download' page for Firefox: https://www.whatruns.com/downloads/ We haven't publicised other extensions due to lack of demand.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Our business model will be similar to that of BuiltWith's, i.e selling list of websites using a particular technology. For eg., list of websites using Drift chat ( https://www.whatruns.com/technology/drift ) will be
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by jijosunny 9y ago
We are using a deep learning algorithm to improve the detection. We also have a built-in module that automatically detects new web patterns – which we then manually curate to ensure accuracy.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
We started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects. Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well! ️ BTW WhatRuns works on all maj
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by jijosunny 9y ago
I totally understand your point, but WhatRuns is not a broken extension. Google blessed us with more than 10k+ active users by featuring us on the Chrome Webstore front page :) and we have been improving the technology ever since. However,
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by jijosunny 9y ago
We're on it. Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information including IP address, location etc. We receive anonymous website data and match with our database to display the results. Hope this clarifies.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
We are using Google Analytics only on the website, it will not (and do not have access to) collect extension user data. However, you are right that we should've mentioned this in our privacy policy. We're on it :)
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Sorry you feel that way. We truly understand your frustration with detection accuracy, but when there are tens of thousands of technologies to detect, the only solution is to break things and move fast. We were featured on Chrome Webstore a
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Not sure. I'll make sure to update it here after :)
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Thank you so much! Yes, HN 'hug of death' seems to be the culprit here :) We're experiencing occasional downtimes. We're on it. New websites (that was not loaded on WhatRuns before) are now queued up and might experien
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by jijosunny 9y ago
To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information including IP address, location etc. We receive anonymous website data and match with our database to display the results. Hope this clarifies.
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Our servers are going a bit cranky due to the huge traffic we are experiencing today. New websites (that was not loaded on WhatRuns before) are now queued up and might experience few seconds of delay. This is to ensure best experience for o
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Hi, Hacker News! We are truly stunned to see us on top of HN today! :) WhatRuns is a free browser extension that shows you what runs a website – from ad networks and developer tools to fonts and Wordpress plugins. You can also follow websit
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by jijosunny 9y ago
True. Comparing with Wappalyzer and BuiltWith, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better): 1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them). 2. Ability to follow sites (and kno
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by jijosunny 9y ago
Hi Dustin, we started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects. Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well! ️