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dgtlmoon
changedetection.io
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dgtlmoon / changedetection.io

changedetection.io

Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring— MCP included! all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

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35.8KGitHub stars
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Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring— MCP included! all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

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Observed mentions: 2021-02-01 09:31:01 UTC to 2026-09-09 19:32:08 UTC.

024682021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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Location: Charlotte, NC, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node, Python, Next.js, Stripe, SQLite/Postgres, LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic), agent orchestration, distributed systems debugging Résumé/CV: https://gg5533.github.io/Sami-Habbal-Resume.pdf Email: samihabbal5@icloud.com I work on the failures that only show up under real traffic — retries that cause double effects, calls with no deadline, agent loops with no ceiling, and state that disagrees with what the payment provider thinks happened. Public and checkable: a fix of mine was merged into changedetection.io (33k stars) by the project owner — https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/pull/4390 — their path-containment guard had no test, and disabling it left every existing test passing. My regression tests for their LLM retry client were merged in
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to the branch of a second, still-open PR there. The bug I'm most known for is one I wrote myself: a lease that passed 78 tests and would still have let a slow provider call overwrite a completed order and re-charge the customer. A second model caught it before it shipped: https://github.com/GG5533/stripe-fulfilment-kit/blob/main/CA... Looking for contract or fractional work, 10-30 hrs/week. One bounded fix at a fixed price is how I'd start with anyone.
In Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
I rely on docker-compose, Traefik, and a few simple shell scripts for most of my setup. Each service I have in its own directory with their own data/ and config/` drectories. Overall, self-hosting has been far less work than I expected. Generally speaking, things don't break and are quite easy to get up and running. I will put * beside strongly recommended services. - changedetection This monitors webpages for changes and sends you notifications on multiple streams when they change. This is the service I have found the most awkward and least useful! (https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io) * ghost for blogging (https://ghost.org/) - gotify for notifications to my phone (https://gotify.net/) - grafana for streaming logs and metrics from these services (https://grafana.com/) - heimdall for a vanity dashboard (https://heimdall.site/)
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