This is really awesome, great work! Would pair jolly good with IFTTT! I actually started working on exactly the same thing once under the name PeekPeak, but never ran it through. I wish you the best of luck!
@johnaveri :) Reach out if you need any help on the Zapier front: mike@zapier.com
This is really powerful app and I can think of several great use cases. Looking forward to promoing it!
@PieterPaul I am one of the cofounders. We have had friends using MonitorBook for a few weeks now. Our friends use it for all sorts of things. Tracking prices. Tracking headlines of websites (for instance you can set up an alert to let you know whenever a certain word shows up in an piece of text). Tracking competitors (specially their pricing). One of our friends owns a restaurant and he uses our tool to track his reviews on yelp as well as his "competitors" reviews.
The tool is flexible, so it will be interesting to see what people use it for :)
Ah this will be really useful for tracking when tickets become (re)-available.
Last Glastonbury festival I used something similar (but not as good as this) to track and notify me as soon as one of the pre-pitched camping slots changed from 'Sold out' to a quantity-dropdown based on another customer refunding their own booking.
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@johnaveri Great product. What is the primary persona you are going after?
@AddisonHuddy we are still in the process of figuring that out :) When we first showed it to friends, we got all sorts of different people interested. The first 5 users: one lawyer, one pharmacist, one marketer, one coder and one CEO of a startup. (it is possible that we just have really nice friends that like to please us).
That said we believe that the early adopters could be:
- somebody that shops a lot online and is serious about getting deals and saving dollars (same people would spend time searching for coupons or promo codes)
- marketer at a company that wants to keep track of competition prices
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@johnaveri You guys have a unique ability to tell someone *when* and what happened. Thinking the developer community could think of some unique use cases for this technology.
If you ever want to drop by Labs and chat with the product team during our Product Office hours, hit me up on twitter.
@AddisonHuddy thanks! will do.
PS: we used pivotal to build monitorbook :)
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@johnaveri nice, we like to call pivotal tracker, tracker. Use it everyday on client projects and I would never use anything else.
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Uhhh...so it pairs the AdBlock element inspector/selector with extensions like "Page Monitor" (for Chrome), which observe website's contents and notify you upon changes.
That focus is a nice touch!
Hey guys, just want to thank the community for all the feedback. I think I've had more than 50 Olark chats which I would describe as "incredibly useful".
I also want to apologize for some issues a few users have experienced, specifically, our inability to track certain websites. Crawling the web can be tricky (especially nowadays, as websites can be incredibly dynamic/ajaxy). We are working hard to fix things as they come up :)
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