Hacker News Reader

Comment by jmtulloss | Hacker News Reader

Hi Hacker News! We've been working hard on Spotbot for the past couple months and are looking forward to your feedback on what we've built. @mgc and I will be around all day to answer any questions.

View on HN

Justin,

People cannot try free, your servers are responding with 503s. I tried to email you from your contact link on website (hi@spotbot.qa) and was undeliverable.

Well the email thing is pretty embarrassing, just fixed. I wrote "hi@spotbot.qa" and set up an email for "hello@spotbot.qa". Face palm.

We are experiencing a lot of load (or we were until we went down). We scaled up and things seem to be working better now.

The site I'm currently maintaining doesn't change very often, but it's approx. 1,500 pages if spidered, plus a large search index. I'm looking at the Fancy plan, but we've got multiple subdomains or internal versions of the site. How are these covered if it's not all under one domain? Are sub-domains part of the same domain? :)

Is it possible to integrate with a CI system for on-demand runs, perhaps by supplying a list of changed pages as a hint on where to expect changes and where not? The idea being that to lower your costs, a subset of pages could be run on-demand?

We don't currently have CI integration, but it's coming up fast on the roadmap. What system do you use?

We're still hammering out the pricing plans. If you email me at justin@spotbot.qa we can set you up with something that makes sense.

No specific CI in mind, maybe just Github integration or a webhook to start. I'm currently looking at options to modernize and add tests to a rather manual, SVN-based process.

I'll email for sure, I'm interested to see how this will work. Thanks! :)

"Pool is destroyed"

No longer destroyed!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com