monitoro
Get alerts, extract data, automate your work without code
Now that Monitoro's UX is starting to stabilize, we released a brand new guide to get started using Monitoro.
The guide is available here: https://www.monitoro.xyz/post/getting-started-with-monitoro
We'll use this article as a central point for all our resources to make it easier on newcomers to find their way around.
We just released Workspaces! 🎉
Now you can group projects together and have a much clearer overview of your activity.
We also plan to make workspaces shareable, to enable collaboration on the same projects. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, a demo here 👇
Monitoro has released a new template to monitor price and availability, from any website in a few minutes.
Data is both synced to Sheets (or Airtable), and used to send alerts to Slack when the price drops, or the availability changes.
Of course, as any other Monitoro project, custom alerts and syncing rules can be created.
The complete tutorial + video is available here:
https://www.monitoro.xyz/post/how-to-make-a-price-tracker-with-google-sheets-and-slack-in-2-min
Monitoro has been interviewed by Startup Radius (at their own initiative, no sponsoring whatsoever), and the interview is live at:
https://startupradius.com/monitor-web-page-changes-with-monitoro/
It's a bit out of date already, since we're moving quite fast! But it's great to see some press featuring us already.
Following up on our previous update, the #1 goal of Monitoro right now is to wow our users and show them the value of using our product.
The new update is shipping an onboarding flow, to help new users find their way around the app. It also comes with a massive refresh to the help center, now located at https://docs.monitoro.xyz
We're still continuously iterating and trying to pinpoint how we can deliver value to our users and prospective customers!
The WOW moment is defined according to David Skok[1] as:
Wow! is the moment ... where your buyer suddenly sees the benefit they get from using your product, and says to themselves “Wow! This is great!”
After your idea generates enough traction to give you confidence in it, wowing the user is the next step.
Crafting that perfect wow moment is tricky.
At Monitoro, we're continuously seeking it and the latest milestone in that regard is releasing a small update today, enabling the user to experience some of what Monitoro has to offer even before they confirm their email.
This is not yet where we want to be, but this little step is hopefully taking us further in that direction.
Balancing delivering value and capturing it is tricky, since there are costs to run the service (both financial but also less material, such as lower email reputation).
Until the next update!
Since our last November update, Monitoro learned a lot from the existing usage patterns, as well as research and insights from veterans in the industry.
The result? Our biggest release to date!
So what did we ship?
- An interactive editor to make monitor creation easy and stress-free
- Data transformations using custom Javascript, allowing users to match the exact requirements of their webhooks
- Better error management, to remove the stress induced by the previous lack of visibility
- A Help Center with our first tutorial
- And much more!
Take a look at https://monitoro.xyz/whatsnew for all the new stuff.
And if you are looking for ways to integrate Monitoro with your existing setup, just let me know!
2 weeks ago, Monitoro was live for the first time and it started attracting interested users like crazy.
Fast forward to today, where we're 400 users strong. This amount of popularity means that there was a lot of user feedback, and a lot of things to fix. And listening to user feedback we did.
This major update builds on our learnings about the difficulty of creating monitors. Among the biggest obstacles that our users encountered, finding the right CSS selectors was a common challenge.
So we shipped a brand new browser extension 🥳. It's available on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Chromium Edge, and Brave using the Chrome web store. The extension makes selecting parts of a web page much easier, creating a monitor faster.
We also improved the user experience all around, squished many pesky bugs, and improved the performance overall.
Visit us already if you haven't done so yet!
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Well done, very very interesting!
I think I will contact you soon via email ;)thanks for sharing!
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I am glad you find it interesting! looking forward to chat with you! omar -at- monitoro.xyz
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How has this been progressing? How have you been generating traffic?
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Be careful with feedback from the free users lest you optimize the product for people who never will never pay. (The browser extension does seem like a great idea, however.)
Cool product and good luck to you.
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Hi @coderheed, thank you for your interest!
What you say is very true - and we did take it into account, as the bulk of our usability testing was based on usage patterns and where users drop off, whereby the explicit feedback merely helped put some words to it.
We have more in the pipeline, so if Monitoro is relevant to you by any means, stay tuned! :)
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Congrats @omneity
Looks really slick.
How has your experience been with publishing the Chrome Web Store for Firefox? I just published a Chrome extension yesterday and am in the dreaded "Pending Review" state. I've read stories of extensions pending review for weeks. 😬
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I am actually also waiting for a new version to be released :D
Long story, if you're conservative with permissions, publishing will be pretty quick. My case is different, since optimizing permissions takes a lot of time and it's not serving the product so much right now.
My previous release took 3 days to be released (due to this permission business).
Just don't stress, it will be reviewed soon!
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Gotcha. I only have the 3 most basic(i think) permissions(activeTab, declarativeContent, and storage) but the content script is specifically for a google domain so we'll see how that goes.
Thanks for the reply!
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Should work out pretty fine, crossing fingers! :)
FYI, the Firefox add-on store has a more involved process, but it makes it easy to self-host as well.
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This is such a cool idea. Congrats on your milestone.
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Thank you very much! Wish you the best for your own ventures :-)
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How many of those are paying users?
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2 users 😅 but frankly speaking we’re still working on solving some usability issues that prevented many of our users from being able to benefit from it.
Once we’re over the hill, we’ll focus on increasing the conversion rate on the road to product market fit.
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Hello @Arrigo, thank you for the kind words and for giving us a shot!
I would love to accompany your early experience of the app and help you get the most of it. Please reach out to omar at monitoro.xyz and I'll be more than happy to help.
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I'm not making up the numbers. The launch was as fantastic as the reactions to Monitoro were unexpected.
I mainly launched on Producthunt, and added Monitoro to a few software registries to get some precious backlinks. As a support kinda, a plan B - a weak one that is.
The surprise was at it's height when I woke up this morning to see my first 10 users, which kept building up during the day to a solid 115 users on day one, less than 24 hours after the launch.
It went fine. My stress and fear of it crashing was not justified after all. There was actually a critical bug report from a brave user which saved the day, and allowed me to land a fix quickly. Staying true to demos and launch day curses.
The launch was smooth and buttery otherwise. I monitored (sic) the infrastructure while people were signing up, which quickly hit my sendgrid email limit. One credit card swipe later, that issue was also gone and no business was disrupted.
The learnings?
Honestly, not so much. I have no insight into launching that I could share. I have read in the past articles about coordinating launches, and pinging all your network to be on standby for that magical moment. I skipped that, and frantically clicked the "Launch" button in ProductHunt.
I don't know why it worked to the extent it did. I did nothing special, I have made launches before that have tanked.
Maybe one practical tip I could share is:
Once you're in the front page of a traffic source like product hunt or HN, you're a fool if you update anything and it goes down for 2 minutes or 3. At the peak of the traffic, I calculated that having the website down for 2 minutes would cost me 50 visitors and 1 signup.
In practice it means, get your stuff together before you click launch. Once you're there, do not do anything.
Next steps?
I've written a personal email to all the users who signed up, hoping to strike a conversation with them and talk about their motivations and their needs. Let's see how that goes.
On a separate topic, due to the freeze of today, I couldn't fix some important (but not critical) issues I noticed in Monitoro only after I launched.
I will be doing that now that the heat has calmed down from the launch.
Thank you for the time you took to read this update.
After a lot of uncertainty and doubt, sprinkled with founder anxiety, I decided to launch the MVP on Producthunt as well.
Lacking the launch experience, even though I read several articles about launch checklists and whatnot, I went on and clicked the launch button.
Guess what? As of this moment, Monitoro is ranking #1, and users are flooding in! Woohoo!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/monitoro
I'm crossing fingers now it doesn't crash.
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