I've signed up. I help run a news-based site which changes on a daily basis; a complete history of screenshots to show both evolution of the site and the news that we covered will be most welcome. I know I could have set this up myself, but this service makes it very easy.
That's a pretty shameless plug, but I might have use for this service, so thanks for sharing I guess. I especially like the 'freeloader' pricing plan xD
You could do pretty much the same thing by running something like wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage from cron.
Like blit, this will "even take screenshots behind login forms" if you login with Firefox, export cookies, and provide the --cookie-jar argument, but without charging $5/mo.
Either way, it's a great way to show how developers see new services. There are a lot of things easy for developers that aren't easy for everybody else, but everybody else would pay for an easy way to do it.
Another option for automated screenshots is using the Kantu Browser, https://kantu.io/ . This gives you the advantage that you can do some complex navigation before taking the screenshot, and at the same time it is significantly easier to use than PhantomJS and friends.
But the beauty and selling point of blit.xyz is simplicity. If all you need are periodical screenshots, it can not get easier than that.
How would this approach deal with popups such as "This site uses cookies", or "please subscribe"? Can these popups somehow be prevented from ruining the final image?
Seems nice, simple, and cheap enough. I did something similar with phantomjs (no email). I agree with other comments that change detection and a slack integration would be nice.
Yes LinkPeek makes me profits. The use case appears to vary a _lot_ between customers. Either this is an indicator that I have not targeted or found my market or I have not marketed to my target properly.
All .xyz (and most of the new gTLDs) are blocked by Forcepoint Security on our corporate network as "Elevated Exposure - Sites that camouflage their true nature or identity, or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent"
Cool. I think there is a missed opportunity with onboarding. Seems like it would be worth testing out a landing page where instead of "Signup" is the CTA, the act of creating a schedule is the CTA. Maybe something like, "What link would you like to follow?" then prompting a "What frequency?" then "What's your email?"
So you know where I'm coming from - I wanted to see it in action, hit signup, saw I needed to do the whole user registration email/password dance as step #1 and bounced out. Too much friction for me, as I was a casual visitor with an unknown use case at the moment. Maybe once I see it in action I would discover use cases.
I'm getting HTTPS errors on visit.
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from blit.xyz (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
I am currently adding screen size responsiveness to my website, working from my phone (don't have access to proper computer right now) so this is exactly what I need!
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 122 ms ] threadAlso, do you think this service would be of value to you? https://www.bugmuncher.com/
I am helping the founder with some marketing research. Thanks!
And thanks for trying!
Edit: The email confirmation link also doesn't work.
Edit edit: The issue was that I was testing localhost and it needs access to the css. It's working now, pretty cool!
Like blit, this will "even take screenshots behind login forms" if you login with Firefox, export cookies, and provide the --cookie-jar argument, but without charging $5/mo.
[1]: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
Who couldn't? Everyone else.
But the beauty and selling point of blit.xyz is simplicity. If all you need are periodical screenshots, it can not get easier than that.
Subscribe modals are often triggered by mouse movement, so they might be avoided, too?
I'm actually happy somebody else created it. : ) Good luck with your launch!
"The site you are trying to access may pose a security threat..."
Maybe (hopefully not) they blanket block certain TLD's. Anyone else experiencing this?
So you know where I'm coming from - I wanted to see it in action, hit signup, saw I needed to do the whole user registration email/password dance as step #1 and bounced out. Too much friction for me, as I was a casual visitor with an unknown use case at the moment. Maybe once I see it in action I would discover use cases.
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Attackers might be trying to steal your information from blit.xyz (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
I am currently adding screen size responsiveness to my website, working from my phone (don't have access to proper computer right now) so this is exactly what I need!