Webtrackr - Monitor webpages for changes and get alerted by Email, Slack & Telegram.
Hello fellow Indie Hackers,
After about a year of working on and off on my project Webtrackr, I'm finally ready for launch.
Webtrackr (https://webtrackr.io/) is a SaaS app that allows you to watch out for changes on webpages and get alerts when they change. A user can install the Webtrackr extension, select either a section of a webpage they'd like to track or the entire webpage using the extension & set the alert criteria. Our bots monitor the pages on the cloud and alerts users by Email, Slack or Telegram on page changes.
I'd be very grateful if you could have a look and share your feedback for my Landing Page, the app dashboard & the browser extensions prior to launch!
For example, Is my messaging clear on the landing page, is the sign up flow & dashboard intuitive, is this a useful extension for you personally, etc. Thanks!
Best,
I like design and idea of your project. I want use it for my travel website it will be very helpful to find the changes.
Hi Amal, I really like the idea. Here's summary of my feedback:
Fine more detailed feedback at: https://screenbud.com/shot/60bd0026-4229-4711-b88f-1343c06ebffc
Hi Petr, thank you so much for the detailed feedback. It was top quality and very helpful! I'll be implementing your suggestions prior to my official launch on Product Hunt etc., although I think I'll only be able to get to it in about 2 weeks when my plate becomes less full.
To answer your questions:
Yes, I made it myself taking inspiration from a few other landing pages. It's built with Tailwind CSS & Gatsby.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by website breakage? Do you mean website outage/unavailability? If so, why not use one of the many purpose built uptime monitoring tool like Freshping instead? Or, do you mean something else?
P.S: If you'd like, feel free to sign up and drop me an email at [email protected] - I'll upgrade your account to the Starter Plan for free. I'm looking for ideas/scenarios for SEO articles and landing pages. If you could share a few after using the product - that'd be great :).
I also tried the sign-up flow -- feedback I received for mine and I think is valid and also applies here:
Arslan from landingpagesfeedback.com also suggested to use empty space on the sign-up page to put there some social proof, like reviews -- I need to research this part.
After sign up, I received email address confirmation email and it is a bit ugly. I used the templates from Postmark to improve my emails: https://github.com/wildbit/postmark-templates, perhaps you can use something like that as well.
In the dashboard, you suggest installing either Firefox or Chrome extension, but you could suggest based on the browser the user is using.
For some reason, I am signed out in the extension even though I am signed in on the website. Moreover, autofill does not work for the password field in the extension popup, which makes it harder to use my random password.
The extension mode which allows me to track specific part of the site could use better visuals (it looks a bit dated). This is what it looks like for me: https://screenbud.com/shot/479dd7ba-4724-4668-a5d9-d0586c818432
Also, the element borders it draw have different widths sometimes (e.g. the top border being more narrow than the side border) which I guess is not intended.
I will let you know what I think once I receive my first report.
Thank you. Valuable feedback once again!
Btw, I hadn't realized that Screenbud was your app. It looks very polished and I had presumed it to be from a funded startup :). Although I have to say that the landing page does not do the product justice.
Glad you liked it. Rather than just uptime, this would allow you to see any visual change that may have happened to your own website (intentionally or not).
I see, I didn't know this was a common use case. This could possibly be a niche product by itself.
I dig it. The messaging about what it does is very clear, and I'll probably give the actual app a spin when I have time. I'm a bit confused about how the free trial works though. Is it time based, or is it a free tier with 150 checks/month?
Also how does your service handle "insignificant" changes, for example if a wrapper div is added somewhere on a website simply for layout purposes?
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the free trial is indeed 150 checks/month. It's obvious on sign up, but I see how the landing page can be ambiguous.
The wrapper div wouldn't count as a change, since the service does not look at the HTML, rather the underlying text on the element.