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enointtoday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Quick feedback:

1. RSS is just fine for updates. Given the importance of your visa use-case, were you thinking of push notifications?

2. Your competition does element-level tracking. Maybe they choose XPath?


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vkuprintoday at 7:00 PM

Yep, Site Spy already has push notifications, plus email and Telegram alerts. I see RSS as the open interface for people who want to plug updates into their own reader or workflow. For urgent things like visa slots or stock availability, direct alerts are definitely the main path.

And yeah, element-level tracking isn't a brand new idea by itself. The thing I wanted to improve was making it easy to pick the exact part of a page you care about and then inspect the change via diffs, history, or RSS instead of just getting a generic "page changed" notification