Idea: Know what your competitors are doing
Hey guys, just want to see if you guys would be interested in something like this. If so, I will create a simple validation + email collecting page while I spend a month or so making it.
Purpose: Track competitor landing pages for changes in tone, features, or design.
Simplified User Flow:
- Compile a list of competitor websites you'd like to monitor
- Select changes you want to be notified of (HTML, tone, content, visual, etc)
- The product will monitor the competitor site every hour and email / notify you if a change is detected
Competitive Edge: Super simple usage and pricing and landing page monitoring optimized
I know there are website monitoring services like this already but I think by making the usage super simple and easy to understand, it could be very useful to Indiehackers and other entrepreneurs / tinkerers.
What do you think?
Edit: Sign-up to show your interest here: https://webscanner.netlify.com/
Check out Wathcful - they are offering a similar solution - though, tracking your competitor's in-app changes, not the landing page changes.
https://www.watchful.ai/
In terms of tracking the landing page, it might be interesting, but I'm not sure how much I will pay for it. Would it be worth paying in comparison to me looking at it manually.
I can see where you're coming from. I was going to start with a simple monitoring service for free (or dirt cheap) and organically expand the features from there.
Would it help me with finding who my competitors are?
I was thinking this kind of functionality could be implemented after the MVP is out but definitely something I would love to implement eventually.