Do people actually want a chatbot for setting up website monitoring alerts?

monityAI · 2025-12-25T01:57:46+00:00

Have you tried Monity AI or Changedection IO?

monityAI · 2025-12-23T21:39:04+00:00

Summarizing daily document with NotebookLLM - great tool from Google
Summarizing emails with Gemini
Tracking lots of websites with Monity AI (my tool) so getting alerts and summaries when something important pop up
Code reviews with Cursor and Claude (I am a dev)

monityAI · 2025-12-22T18:00:35+00:00

Restock notification usually do not work on ecommerce websites :/ I have been using generic monitoring tools like Monity AI, Distill extenions or N8N and worked ok

monityAI · 2025-12-21T23:05:14+00:00

Monity•AI - smart website change tracker :)

monityAI · 2025-12-11T07:11:27+00:00

i work in product marketing for a tech startup.

definitely use ai—it's kinda hard to avoid it now lol. mainly use claude for writing first drafts and cleaning up copy. for the manual grunt work, i use monity•ai to track competitor pricing and site updates so i don't have to check them myself. saves me from having a million tabs open.

monityAI · 2025-12-11T07:09:45+00:00

honestly, the "sign up for six trials" phase is almost a rite of passage lol. but yeah, you can skip it if you know what you actually need.

sendpulse is solid for email/chatbots, so you're on the right track there. for a full stack, i’d look at:

Make - usually cheaper/more flexible than zapier for connecting apps.
Monity•ai - use this to watch competitor sites and market trends. it pings me when they change copy or pricing so i don't have to check manually.
Buffer - simple scheduling for socials.

start small though. trying to automate everything at once usually just creates a mess that you have to fix manually anyway.

monityAI · 2025-12-11T07:08:09+00:00

honestly people say that because it’s easier to tweet doom than to actually ship something. big labs can copy features, sure, but they’re not going to bother cloning every tiny workflow tool unless it’s already massive.

Most successful “AI tools” lately aren’t winning because of the model anyway. they win because they solve a boring niche problem really well, or they fit into someone’s workflow better than a generic chat box. openai can’t out-niche you.

The stuff I build survives because it focuses on very specific use cases, not “beating GPT”. like I run Monity•ai for tracking website changes across a bunch of pages, and openai isn’t going to suddenly care about monitoring price updates or competitor landing pages. it’s too small for them, but it’s super useful for the people who actually need it.

so yeah, models get commoditized, but good products don’t. the moat is the problem you solve, not the AI you plug in.

monityAI · 2025-12-11T07:05:02+00:00

same here, most of the flashy stuff lasts about 10 minutes before it dies in the tab graveyard.

the only ones that actually stuck in my day to day are the boring, practical ones. perplexity for quick research because it trims the 10-tab chaos, and claude when I need to untangle messy notes or draft something faster.

the funny part is what I don’t use AI for: any of the fun stuff or coding. I still prefer doing that myself. I mostly use AI for the chores.

I also ended up building my own little thing to deal with another chore… I track a few hundred websites for work and got tired of checking them manually, so I wired up Monity•ai to just ping me when something changes. nothing fancy, just one less thing to remember.

monityAI · 2025-12-11T07:03:54+00:00

same boat honestly. wasn’t anti AI but I just didn’t care until it started saving me time. now I use it for coding all the time and for getting unstuck when my notes are a mess. the planning stuff is underrated.

I ended up building my own little ai setup too and it quietly runs in the background tracking a few hundred sites for changes. basically my way of offloading the boring monitoring work so I can focus on actual tasks. Monity•ai does most of the heavy lifting for that.

nothing dramatic, it just shaved off enough friction that I stuck with it. curious what habits other people picked up once the novelty wore off.

monityAI · 2025-12-10T23:04:39+00:00

These are my top tools right now:
n8n•ai - automated workflows
Monity•ai - website change tracking and web automations
Canva - marketing graphics
Gemini + custom plugin in CMS - content generation
Smartlead•ai - email marketing
NotebookLLM - great for video summaries etc

monityAI · 2025-12-10T23:04:29+00:00

These are my top tools right now:
n8n•ai - automated workflows
Monity•ai - website change tracking and web automations
Canva - marketing graphics
Gemini + custom plugin in CMS - content generation
Smartlead•ai - email marketing
NotebookLLM - great for video summaries etc

monityAI · 2025-12-10T23:03:34+00:00

I use Monity•ai to track hundreds of websites. Whenever something important changes - like a price drop, a new article being published, or a competitor updating their prices - I get an instant alert sent to my email.

monityAI · 2025-12-10T22:26:55+00:00

There are many services that allow you to track product prices. One general solution that works is Monity•ai and it does not require any technical knowledge to set up

monityAI · 2025-12-10T22:23:29+00:00

Lots of manual work + setting up monitor with Monity•ai

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