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Seems like most people here think hospitals and health care companies act purely out of the benevolence of their hearts and not for profit, judging by the down-votes on your comment ;)

Doesn't Debian do exactly what you've said?

Why does const irk you? const sounds a lot clearer than con. Is that your primary criteria for picking a language? ;)

Hi Darren, thank you for the comment! Webhooks is indeed something that's on my immediate to do list. As a matter of fact, it was originally supposed to be a part of the MVP, but was put on hold so that the launch could happen quicker :).

I'd like to understand your use case better and shall drop you an email!

Hello HN,

Webtrackr is my first attempt at building an Indie SaaS app. I've been working on and off on this project for about a year now and it's finally ready. Webtrackr lets you track a section of a webpage or an entire webpage for changes & notifies you by Email, Slack and Telegram on detecting a change.

Webtrackr was born out of me "productizing" a script I'd written to scrape Lenovo's website to alert me on offers while I was shopping for a new Thinkpad. If you're a hacker, it's not too difficult to write a script to crawl & parse a webpage for changes, but this is out of scope of the average user. Besides, even for a developer, scraping webpages today is a non trivial task - a lot of websites block requests that do not originate from a browser and based on IP if too many requests are sent. Additionally with most websites today being heavy on Javacsript, simple scrapers don't quite cut it anymore. This is the problem Webtrackr wishes to solve.

Webtrackr uses Headless Chrome/Puppetter to crawl webpages and requests are routed through a distributed network of proxies to get around being blocked or rate limited by the target websites the user wishes to monitor. So the user can always count on getting notified on changes regardless of the nature of website they're monitoring or the frequency of the checks.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of the HN community on Webtrackr. Is this something you'd use?

Electron app obv implies more privacy in a sense (assuming that no data is sent to their server).

You wouldn't but "average users" would prefer to run it on their phone. For example, this could turn into a social media management tool for "influencers" and celebrities - managing their social media profiles with advanced deletion conditions etc.