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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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"
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!
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
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.