Watchbird
Watch any page for changes. 100% local, AI on-device.
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Watchbird - Watch any page for changes. 100% local, AI on-device.

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Click any part of any page — a price, a stock label, a job listing — and get alerted when it changes. Everything runs in your browser, including the AI that decides what matters. No account, no cloud, no subscription. Free for 10 watches; Pro is a one-time $14.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ashik, a solo developer building small, private browser tools from Bangladesh. Watchbird is my second one. The problem: you refresh the same page for two weeks — a price, a restock, a job listing, an appointment slot — and still miss the moment it changes. Tools for this already exist. But every one of them fetches your pages from their servers, keeps a copy, and charges you $10–50 every month for the privilege. I didn't want to hand a company my shopping list and my job search. So Watchbird does it the other way around. Click any element on any page. Optionally tell it what matters in plain words — "only if the price drops below $130." Your browser does the checking, and Chrome's built-in on-device AI decides whether a change is worth interrupting you and writes a one-line summary. Nothing you watch is uploaded anywhere. There's no account. And because there are no servers to rent, Pro is a one-time $14 instead of a subscription. The honest trade-off: Watchbird only checks while your browser is open. That's the price of keeping everything local. If you need 24/7 monitoring with your computer off, Visualping or Distill are genuinely better for you, and I'd rather say that here than refund you later. Free tier is 10 watches, forever — no card, no signup. I'd love your feedback, especially on pages where it doesn't work. I'm here all day and I'll reply to every comment.

Congrats on launching Watchbird! I like the focus on watch any page for changes. 100% local, AI on-device.. Excited to see where it goes. 🚀

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 Thank you! 🙏 The "100% local" part is the whole reason I built it — I didn't want a page-watching tool that uploads the pages I'm watching.

If you end up trying it, I'd love to know what you point it at first — most people go for a price or a restock, but the job-listing and appointment-slot use cases have surprised me.

This is really cool — congrats on the launch, Ashik! Love that it's fully on-device with no cloud and a one-time price. Privacy-first done right. 🔥

Maker

 Thank you, that means a lot 🙏 “Privacy-first done right” is exactly what I was aiming for — it bugged me that every page monitor solves the problem by uploading the very pages you’re watching to their servers.

The part I’m proudest of: Chrome’s built-in on-device AI does the “is this change actually worth pinging you about?” judgment locally, so there’s no cloud and no AI bill to pass on — which is the whole reason a one-time price works instead of a subscription.

Have you run into other tools that leaned on the cloud when they didn’t need to? Curious whether this frustration is common or just mine.