ToSNotify
Productivity
change monitoring
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean service that solves a specific problem.
From 1 comment
Great service - clean and solves particular problem, definitely will try it. I used to use changepatrol.com and visualping.io for solving similar problems of tracking changes on…
sf_bigfan on HN
Diff view is useful and well presented.
From 2 comments
I like how that's implemented, what are you using to generate the pretty plaintext colored diffs like that?
pinjasaur on HNLove this, tried it for ya. Check out the chat example [1]. For small changes, I'd rather read the diff. But occasionally, like item (10), it displays an understanding of the…
evrydayhustling on HN
Objections
Low signal-to-noise; users may not read the updates.
From 2 comments
Some thoughts: 1. I have no idea (and am curious) how frequently ToS are updated and how often the updates are meaningful to me as an end-user as is the case with Zoom and…
haldujai on HNI already get a billion of these emails from companies whenever the ToS updates, and I always mark them as spam
dymk on HN
Users rarely act on ToS changes.
From 1 comment
There’s a principle of monitoring systems and their alerts: “Only alert actionable events.” Applied to this case, if a ToS changes, what can a user do about it? (Let’s not…
teddyh on HN
Requests
Automatic discovery of which sites to track.
From 2 comments
- The maker's post
I've been thinking through how this could work more practically, and this definitely makes the most sense. I might try to find an easy way to export just a list of sites that I…
supermdguy on HN
LLM summaries of changes.
From 2 comments
I currently show a diff (see https://tosnotify.com/reports/example), but adding some sort of LLM summary could be cool!
supermdguy on HNThe service can show a diff, pass it through an LLM into a bite sized email
toxicFork on HN
Webhook or API support.
From 2 comments
I would pay for commercial support, an API, and maybe a webhook or some programmatic way to be notified of changes.
kenbolton on HNI could definitely add in webhook support, feel free to shoot me an email: support@tosnotify.com
supermdguy on HN
Questions
How to add more URLs to track.
From 1 comment
Hi - I'm a paid user of this, how do I add more URLs to track?
yechida on HN
Whether the site has a terms of service page.
From 1 comment
I could not find a terms of service page for your product on your web-site.
anotherevan on HN
Alternatives named
tosdr.org
From 1 comment
Somewhat related: Terms of Service; Didn't Read https://tosdr.org
FireInsight on HN
visualping.io
From 1 comment
There are also general tools I like for this that work for any website change. visualping.io is good. Though it might be hard to configure for specific textual changes. One…
seeknotfind on HN
changepatrol.com
From 1 comment
Great service - clean and solves particular problem, definitely will try it. I used to use changepatrol.com and visualping.io for solving similar problems of tracking changes on…
sf_bigfan on HN
Versionista
From 1 comment
There's a great platform out of Portland called Versionista (https://versionista.com/) which has been working closely with the government and other entities to understand changes…
josh_carterPDX on HN