What is the crowd's opinion of Versionista?

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I built a product to track web site changes. Built it 10+ years ago in Perl (yikes)! It grew very very (very) slowly w/ only minimal upkeep, and only recently have I started focusing on it full time. It eventually grew to where it supports me fulltime.

I recently built another vertical-specific version 100% on Node.js Lambda functions w/ a React front-end. I control all infrastructure using CloudFormation. It's a pretty sweet setup. Cool beans.

Welcome to the club! I've had Versionista out and doing similar things for 7 years or so now... :) Finding the right market for a product like this is tough, especially as there are now a number of competitors doing similar things. We've found that the actual tracking is less important than workflow management of changes. Meaning: how to deal with the vast # of false positives; how to enable a team to delegate usage of change monitoring among team members; and so on. (edit: spelling & clarification)

Try making friends with the staff at the Weaverville and Woodfin ABC stores. They often get some pretty interesting stuff that you won't find on the shelves in Asheville stores. They usually keep it in the back though, and call people that have their numbers listed in their little black books. I've gotten Stagg Jr, Willet 3 year, E.H. Taylor Seasoned Wood, and a couple other things this way. It helps if you keep an eye on the NC ABC price list or warehouse stock, and let the stores know of NC codes you're interested in. I use Wachete and Versionista to send me updates on site changes.

Uniqoi TN is only about an hour up the road, and Unicoi Wine & Spirits is a decent store (they respond quickly to questions on Facebook, nice feature). Greenville SC is only an hour down the road, and there's a few stores there worth going to. Green's has things I don't see in NC (but doesn't seem to have a wide selection), and their prices are in line with what I expect. 19 Wine & Spirits has more hard-to-find bottles, but they're at a premium. There are other stores in the area, but those are the only two I've shopped so far.

Hope you enjoy that Woodford SiB. I got one too - it tasted like licking salt off a two-by-four, and I put it in the back of the shelf. I'm hoping some oxygen improves it.....

Good luck!

You could try looking into https://versionista.com.

It's a webpage crawler and can email you changes and from that you could make an applet to add what's in the email to Spreadsheet. Select text changes only

I've spent my entire career since the mid-90s as an entrepreneur... some of those were VC funded, some not. The VC ride is fun as hell: massive rooftop parties in SF, flying a team to South Africa to "meet customers" (and go on safari), etc etc. But ZERO of the VC ventures I was involved with made it... all of them crashed. And the crash and burn is hard as hell... layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Those free lunches and dinners? Gone.

Self-funded, bootstrapping (as I am doing now for Versionista is tough)... you absolutely feel that there's nothing separating you from the street... you feel it. You spend 3 months in a sales cycle for an Enterprise customer and you don't close it? You feel it. It hurts. And it damn well impacts you hard.

But I feel the latter keeps you on your toes more. Sink or swim. You have to learn what the customer wants. You have to cut costs immediately and constantly. You have to learn to code yourself. You have to learn to do sales yourself. Etc.

But the crazy shindigs in VC days... oh boy.