Pagesnap

Dev tools

website monitoring

SHOW HN2014

62points
48comments
#511of 2,272 in 2014
Top 23%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

11 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.

Idea: 4 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Simple site and focused product

    From 2 comments
    • Love the simple site and focus. I've been working on a similar project focusing more on visual diffing, but haven't been able to launch yet. Still building the server…
      askedrelic on HN
    • I love everything about this. Good job so far!
      mperham on HN
  • Good name

    From 1 comment
  • Useful idea for capturing product history

    From 2 comments
    • I actually had this idea a few years ago but never got around to building it, so I'm glad you're making it happen. At my previous startup I hacked this manually by taking a…
      andygcook on HN
    • I think the real benefit of sites like this are accountability and historic research. Having the ability to see what has been omitted or taken down is far more interesting.
      NikolaTesla on HN

Objections

  • Billing not yet implemented, so not ready to pay

    From 2 comments
    • This was inspired by a short discussion on Twitter between mperham and patio11 last weekend.[1] The basic app works great right now but I haven't put the billing code in quite…
      zrail on HN
    • You are the Master of Modern Payments and the billing code is the only thing it lacks?? Just kidding! ;) Smart move and good luck!
      soneca on HN
  • Not built to scale to thousands of URLs

    From 1 comment
    • It's not necessarily a huge burden, but if someone wants to run 10K URLs through this thing on a daily basis we'd need to have a chat. As of today it's not ready to scale that…
      zrail on HN

Requests

  • Visual diffing

    From 2 comments
    • - Adding visual diffs would be very cool. - Some sort of visual timeline would also be great, i.e. the ability to flip through screenshots with a javascript slider or something -…
      pastylegs on HN
    • Love the simple site and focus. I've been working on a similar project focusing more on visual diffing, but haven't been able to launch yet. Still building the server…
      askedrelic on HN
  • Mobile and tablet screenshots

    From 2 comments
    • Cool feature to add would be mobile and tablet versions
      rschmitty on HN
    • I'll add it to the list. Would customizing the width and user agent allow you to do what you want?
      zrail on HN
  • Timeline slider and animated GIF export

    From 2 comments
    • - Adding visual diffs would be very cool. - Some sort of visual timeline would also be great, i.e. the ability to flip through screenshots with a javascript slider or something -…
      pastylegs on HN
    • I was thinking about that the other day, that would be awesome something that builds it at every step and converts it to an animated gif
      thehodge on HN
  • Ability to click page elements before capture

    From 1 comment
    • This would solve a large problem I have, if it could be taught how to click on a few well-named #ids my dynamic page has. It's not obvious whether it can do this.
      digitalsushi on HN

Questions

  • Whether volume pricing is available for many URLs

    From 2 comments
    • Question. Is the number of urls such a huge burden? At Theneeds.com we manage about 4k websites (planning to grow to 10k) so the prices of all these services are totally out of…
      ecesena on HN
    • It's not necessarily a huge burden, but if someone wants to run 10K URLs through this thing on a daily basis we'd need to have a chat. As of today it's not ready to scale that…
      zrail on HN
  • Whether screenshots are taken server-side and need any script

    From 2 comments
    • Are the screenshots being grabbed by Pagesnap or the website's end? Do I have to include some sort of JS snippet? Could you use this to monitor the competition's landing page?
      650REDHAIR on HN
    • Screenshots are grabbed from the server. At the moment there's nothing you have to include on your end.
      zrail on HN

Alternatives named

  • visualping.io

    From 2 comments
    • You can use this as well: http://visualping.io/. We're still working on doing more frequent checks on gowatchtower.com
      calbear81 on HN
    • Couldn't i use the free version that's somewhat more relevant: http://visualping.io ?
      kumarski on HN
  • Internet Archive / Wayback Machine

    From 2 comments
    • http://archive.org/web/ Not daily but does the job
      elyrly on HN
    • Whenever I'm reading something on Reddit/HackerNews/etc that I think is going to be relevant later, I hit my Archive.org bookmarklet:…
      toomuchtodo on HN
  • dailysitesnap.com

    From 1 comment
    • I built something very similar last year and still reference it all the time: https://www.dailysitesnap.com There's a payment form but I never hooked anything up -- it's all…
      derwiki on HN
  • diphur.com

    From 1 comment
    • @650REDHAIR .. try https://diphur.com if you're interested in monitoring competitors web pages.
      cl8ton on HN
  • Snapito

    From 1 comment
    • I recently started a project that takes screenshots of top news sites every hour: http://newsabovethefold.com It's really fascinating to look at once you've collected a decent…
      minouye on HN

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