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by mattmanser 4250 days ago
Go write your own then.

I find this a bizarre response to a simple and easy to understand tool.

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Your post is a bizarre response to a simple list of questions. And the "go write your own then" is kind of offensive.
I thought that at least part of Show HN was to gather feedback and look into how things are implemented, which features are supported / unsupported etc.

Therefore, I personally find this list of questions very relevant. Some of those questions I was asking myself when looking at the page. The fact that this information wasn't clear from the website itself is also important. At least some of the users of such tool would most likely want to know what to expect.

Perhaps it could have been asked in a more positive way (not entirely sure how, but maybe explaining why those things matter), but the questions themselves are important and I'd be curious to know the answers.

If it's easy to understand then I guess you can answer my questions?

I don't think "go write your own" is a legitimate response to my questions (if that's ever a legitimate response).

I'm using websec as an existing tool to watch website changes. It's not perfect but it's good enough.

For a while I had a webapp to do a better job but it never got any traction, most likely because I had no idea how to get traction. It's an interesting exercise to write such a tool though.

I find it to be the kind of response to be welcomed (from a product developer/manager viewpoint)