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A bit of a tangent, but I looks at your link to Bernard. Aren't there a lot of broken link-checking services out there already? Curious to learn what your USP is, and/or your approach to competing in a saturated market.

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None that seem vaguely close to my vision. And one killer feature I would like to focus on (though it's on the roadmap for post-launch) is the ability to notify you if an URL of yours stops being accessible, i.e. you forgot, after a redesign, to set up a redirect from the old URL to the new, which is a nightmare for both users and your SEO.

I've seen that happen countless times, and no service I've tested was able to monitor for that use case satisfactorily and/or at that price point.

In other words, my goal is to create a service to uphold Berners-Lee's "cool URIs don't change" mantra.

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

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