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I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

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I built Site Spy after missing a visa appointment slot because a government page changed and I didn’t notice for two weeks.It watches webpages for changes and shows the result like a diff. The part I think HN might find interesting is that it can monitor a specific element on a page, not just the whole page, and it can expose changes as RSS feeds.So instead of tracking an entire noisy page, you can watch just a price, a stock status, a headline, or a specific content block. When it changes, you can inspect the diff, browse the snapshot history, or follow the updates in an RSS reader.It’s a Chrome/Firefox extension plus a web dashboard.Main features:- Element picker for tracking a specific part of a page- Diff view plus full snapshot timeline- RSS feeds per watch, per tag, or across all watches- MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents- Browser push, Email, and Telegram notificationsChrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/site-spy/jeapcpanag...Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/site-spy/Docs: https://docs.sitespy.appI’d especially love feedback on two things:- Is RSS actually a useful interface for this, or do most people just want direct alerts?- Does element-level tracking feel meaningfully better than full-page monitoring?

HN · launched Mar 11, 2026 · 320 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views

Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The product consists of a browser extension to pick CSS selectors, a periodic headless fetcher (e.g., Playwright or basic HTTP requests), a diff engine, and an RSS feed generator.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: changedetection.io (open source alternative), Klaxon (self-hosted monitoring tool), Custom GitHub Actions crawlers

Concerns raised: Insufficient attribution to changedetection.io fork origins, Telemetry collection on user emails without clear disclosure, CSS selectors break on sites with auto-generated class names, Captcha and anti-bot challenges cannot be handled, Auth-gated content (Instagram, paywalled pages) requires workarounds

Feature requests: Semantic element selectors ([data-testid], aria-label) instead of CSS paths, AI-assisted interaction to find elements without brittle selectors, Proxy rotation for geo-restricted content and rate limiting, Better handling of auth-gated and paywalled content, LLM semantic targeting for selector breakage detection

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 458 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #5 of 459 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 123 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PageWatch · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Frontpagee · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • FeedBro · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • RSS.Style · hn · 2026-01-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • RSS Reader by deeweb · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Trader News · hn · 2026-09-24 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Watcher · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Spyweb · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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