Re:Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes
by CHANCECHANEL on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:23AM
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I wonder how its implemented. I think its possible to do run this type of service at a very large scale for extremely low costs using AWS Lambda and Cloudwatch events.
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Re:Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes
by bluepeter on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:12PM
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That’s exactly what we use for a competing product. The difficulty is less in the crawling, and more in the scheduling and difference visualization (including filters). Presenting salient results without a ton of false positives is hard work.