+1 yeah, talk about the solution and make it dead easy simple, keep a very simple scope and make simple features work extremely well.
I've managed to climb to the top of my "industry" through doing the same, all the other competitors talk about what they technology they use etc, people dont care.. they just want a really simple fast sexy solution.
Er. Don't get me wrong, I like KDE and I like XFCE, but if you're hitting fewer bugs in KDE than XFCE then the least I can say is that your experience is very different from mine. That goes double for resource use, where KDE has made massive improvements but last I looked their file indexer was still a huge resource hog.
I am a big fan of XFCE and I can agree with biggunz. Thunar freaks out randomly. And there were some other issues which I don't remember. Thunar was always the most important one I remember. Talking about the reality shouldn't be the reason for downvotes.
It went on for a few years before it was fixed. In the meantime, I went to i3wm and started using PCManFM. Came back to Thunar after a year or so. But the issue still persisted so went for a while to Nautilus. Only recently was this fixed(I think last year or so?).
KDE is not buggy for most of it's core part and uses less or similar resources wrt XFCE. I use XFCE components cos it's interchangeable and can be used as independent components... Without dragging in a ton of dependencies like in a KDE component.
Am happy as there is a significant improvement in UX with the recent minor/major releases. So am happy and back to using XFCE components.
I had to abandon XFCE due to some issue with aging XFCE4 libraries and high cpu problems, switched to KDE Plasma 5.x,. got 50% longer battery lifetime and havent looked back.
They need to focus on these kinds of problems, not on adding new features, otherwise I would have stayed.
https://changedetection.io - identified a niche where there was only closed source solutions that were _extremely_ expensive for what it is, and all other opensource products seemed very 'under-cooked' and talked more about the technology (language, web framework etc) they used rather than the problem they solved.
All other opensource solutions were also too hard to install and lacked features. Added many features that easily outpace the closed source competition
Made it easy to run/use/download/modify to get the numbers up then and sell subscription/hosted solution for those who dont have time. Also taking on many interesting custom solutions for people and companies that I've met through this project.
Nicely done. This is a commonly needed utility, obviously most relevantly in spaces where the purveyors of data aren't in the business of nor are they interested in making the data available or easily consumable. When I worked at a hedge fund doing research on various sectors, we had tons of data points we needed to monitor. Some of them were only available on government agency or company websites. Being able to detect when something changed, and quickly, was obviously really important for us. Anyways, good job commercializing this and doing it in a way that will feel palatable to customers.
I used it this Black Friday to monitor prices on some websites where I couldn't find a better solution. I was glad it supports multiple types of notifications (I used Discord notifications)
Thanks a lot for this project! I love it, and will be using it from now on.
I've been running this software locally as a docker container on my laptop since about February 2021, obviously with a few updates/restarts, but generally it is set and forget
