Show HN: ChangeDetection, monitor any website change
Report a link problem
Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderA few years ago when I was a Junior engineer, I worked for a company which would provide us with free tickets to any sports team in our city. I'm not a sports fan, but my stepdad loves hockey. When the tickets went up, they got reserved pretty fast. I noticed that the site we used to reserve the tickets had a predictable slug like: `{company}-hockey-tickets-2016-season`, and `{company}-hockey-tickets-2015-season`. The sites also didn't change between each refresh. So, when it was…
There seem to be a lot of these services ("scrape X in order to generate an RSS/webhook/etc. change feed for X"), but I feel that I can't rely on any of them. For anything that I would need this particular service for, my highest-concern requirement is that I'm able able to "set and forget" the service for literal years at a time. But almost always, services like this just drop dead eventually; or they tweak their scraping algorithms in ways…
A way to live your 'data-life' proactively, avoid the noise and just monitor what you need to know about.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 402
- Total comments
- 86
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-01 | Show HN: Self-hosted web page change detection/monitoring | biggunz | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-01-03 | Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feedsFirst breakout | biggunz | 147 | 29 |
| 2023-05-21 | Changedetection.io “turns websites into news” releases 0.42 | biggunz | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-09-01 | Show HN: ChangeDetection, monitor any website changeBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | serhack_ | 253 | 56 |