SnagRes
Get a text the second an impossible table opens up
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SnagRes watches 140 of the hardest tables in NYC and SF across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms, and texts you the moment one opens up. We first launched here in February as SnagNYC. Since then, we've reached over 40,000 unique visitors, San Francisco went live, alerts moved to text (email is too slow, a hot table is gone before you check your inbox), and we added exact release times, so you know 4 Charles drops 21 days out at 9am. It still never books for you, and never asks for your login.
PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: appointment booking software · 120 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Travel
- Food & Drink
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Could you build this?
Partial While sending Twilio SMS alerts is trivial, constantly scraping Resy, OpenTable, and SevenRooms requires bypassing sophisticated bot protections (Cloudflare, PerimeterX) and handling rotating proxies at high frequency.
What it would actually take: A production implementation requires a distributed scraping cluster (e.g., Puppeteer/Playwright or reverse-engineered private APIs) using residential proxy pools (Bright Data, Oxylabs) to bypass Cloudflare and Akamai bot protection across four different reservation systems. The system needs sub-second polling loops, state-diffing queues (Redis/BullMQ), and low-latency SMS dispatch via Twilio. The hard part is continuously evading anti-scraping countermeasures and session invalidation across disparate platforms without getting IP banned.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 9 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 10 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 26 days after the earliest competitor.
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