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1d ago

What's a bug you shipped that was technically correct and completely wrong?

Mine, from this week.

I filter email security scanners out of my analytics Safe Links, Mimecast and friends open every URL in an email before a human ever sees it. So I matched "outlook" in the user agent. Obviously a scanner.

24h ago

Closewatch - Stop guessing whether the client read your proposal

Every proposal tool reports opens. Most of that number is link scanners, and "was it opened" was never the real question. Closewatch scores each proposal and shows its work: "forwarded to someone else", "3m 51s on pricing", "came back on a later day". The dashboard is a call list, not a stats page. Scanners are filtered out and only visible reading time counts. One link per recipient, so a second reader means it reached the person who signs. It's the PDF you already send.