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526 lines
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# Website Change Detection Monitor - Development Tasks
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## Project Setup
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### Environment & Infrastructure
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- [ ] Initialize Git repository
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- [ ] Set up project structure (monorepo or separate repos)
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- [ ] Configure development environment
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- [ ] Node.js/npm or Python/pip
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- [ ] Docker for local development
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- [ ] Environment variables management
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- [ ] Set up CI/CD pipeline
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- [ ] GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
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- [ ] Automated testing
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- [ ] Deployment automation
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- [ ] Provision cloud infrastructure
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- [ ] Database (PostgreSQL)
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- [ ] Redis for queuing
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- [ ] Object storage (S3)
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- [ ] Application hosting
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### Development Tools
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- [ ] Set up linting and formatting (ESLint/Prettier or Black/Flake8)
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- [ ] Configure TypeScript/type checking
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- [ ] Set up testing frameworks (Jest/Pytest)
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- [ ] Configure logging and monitoring
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- [ ] Set up local development database
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## MVP Phase (Launch Fast)
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### 1. Backend Core - Week 1-2
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#### Database Schema
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- [ ] Design and create database schema
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- [ ] Users table
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- [ ] Monitors table
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- [ ] Snapshots table
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- [ ] Alerts table
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- [ ] Add indexes for performance
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- [ ] Set up database migrations
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- [ ] Create seed data for development
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#### Authentication & User Management
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- [ ] Implement user registration
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- [ ] Implement user login (email/password)
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- [ ] JWT token generation and validation
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- [ ] Password reset flow
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- [ ] Email verification (optional for MVP)
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- [ ] Basic user profile endpoints
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#### Monitor Management API
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- [ ] POST /monitors - Create new monitor
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- [ ] GET /monitors - List user's monitors
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- [ ] GET /monitors/:id - Get monitor details
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- [ ] PUT /monitors/:id - Update monitor
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- [ ] DELETE /monitors/:id - Delete monitor
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- [ ] Input validation and sanitization
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- [ ] URL validation and normalization
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### 2. Monitoring Engine - Week 2-3
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#### Page Fetching
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- [ ] Implement HTTP fetcher (Axios/Got)
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- [ ] Handle different response types (HTML, JSON, text)
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- [ ] Implement timeout handling
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- [ ] Add retry logic with exponential backoff
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- [ ] User-agent rotation
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- [ ] Respect robots.txt (optional)
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- [ ] Rate limiting per domain
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#### Change Detection
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- [ ] Implement content hash comparison
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- [ ] Implement text diff algorithm
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- [ ] Character-level diff
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- [ ] Line-level diff
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- [ ] Store snapshots in database
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- [ ] Calculate change percentage
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- [ ] Determine if change is significant
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#### Job Scheduling
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- [ ] Set up Redis and Bull/BullMQ
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- [ ] Create monitor check job
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- [ ] Implement job scheduler
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- [ ] 5-minute interval
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- [ ] 30-minute interval
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- [ ] 6-hour interval
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- [ ] 24-hour interval
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- [ ] Handle job failures and retries
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- [ ] Job priority management
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- [ ] Monitor queue health
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### 3. Alert System - Week 3
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#### Email Alerts
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- [ ] Set up email service (SendGrid/Postmark)
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- [ ] Create email templates
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- [ ] Change detected template
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- [ ] Error alert template
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- [ ] Implement alert sending logic
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- [ ] Track alert delivery status
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- [ ] Alert throttling (max 1 per check)
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- [ ] Unsubscribe functionality
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#### Alert Management
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- [ ] GET /alerts - List user's alerts
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- [ ] Mark alerts as read
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- [ ] Alert preferences per monitor
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### 4. Frontend Core - Week 3-4
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#### Setup & Layout
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- [ ] Initialize Next.js project
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- [ ] Set up Tailwind CSS
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- [ ] Install and configure shadcn/ui
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- [ ] Create main layout component
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- [ ] Navigation
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- [ ] User menu
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- [ ] Responsive design
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- [ ] Set up React Query
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#### Authentication Pages
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- [ ] Login page
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- [ ] Registration page
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- [ ] Password reset page
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- [ ] Protected route handling
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#### Dashboard
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- [ ] Dashboard layout
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- [ ] Monitor list view
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- [ ] Status indicators
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- [ ] Last checked time
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- [ ] Last changed time
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- [ ] Empty state (no monitors)
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- [ ] Loading states
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- [ ] Error handling
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#### Monitor Management
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- [ ] Create monitor form
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- [ ] URL input
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- [ ] Frequency selector
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- [ ] Name/description
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- [ ] Edit monitor page
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- [ ] Delete monitor confirmation
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- [ ] Form validation
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#### History & Diff Viewer
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- [ ] History timeline component
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- [ ] Paginated list
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- [ ] Filter by status
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- [ ] Diff viewer component
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- [ ] Side-by-side view
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- [ ] Unified view
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- [ ] Syntax highlighting
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- [ ] Line numbers
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- [ ] Snapshot viewer (raw HTML)
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### 5. Testing & Polish - Week 4
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- [ ] Write unit tests for core functions
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- [ ] Write API integration tests
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- [ ] Write E2E tests for critical flows
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- [ ] Performance testing
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- [ ] Page fetch speed
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- [ ] Diff calculation speed
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- [ ] Security audit
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- [ ] SQL injection prevention
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- [ ] XSS prevention
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- [ ] CSRF protection
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- [ ] Accessibility audit (WCAG AA)
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- [ ] Browser compatibility testing
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### 6. Deployment - Week 4
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- [ ] Set up production environment
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- [ ] Configure domain and SSL
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- [ ] Deploy backend API
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- [ ] Deploy frontend
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- [ ] Set up monitoring and logging
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- [ ] Application logs
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- [ ] Error tracking (Sentry)
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- [ ] Uptime monitoring
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- [ ] Create status page
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- [ ] Load testing
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## V1 Phase (People Pay)
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### 7. Noise Reduction - Week 5-6
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#### Automatic Filtering
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- [ ] Build filter engine
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- [ ] Implement cookie banner detection
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- [ ] CSS selector patterns
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- [ ] Common text patterns
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- [ ] Implement timestamp detection
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- [ ] Date/time regex patterns
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- [ ] "Last updated" patterns
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- [ ] Implement session ID filtering
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- [ ] Test filter accuracy on common sites
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#### Custom Ignore Rules
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- [ ] Design ignore rule UI
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- [ ] Implement regex-based text filtering
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- [ ] Implement CSS selector exclusion
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- [ ] Add rule testing/preview
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- [ ] Save rules with monitor config
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- [ ] Apply rules during diff calculation
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### 8. Selective Monitoring - Week 6
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#### Element Selection
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- [ ] Implement CSS selector monitoring
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- [ ] Build visual element picker
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- [ ] Inject selection overlay
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- [ ] Click-to-select interface
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- [ ] Show element path
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- [ ] XPath support
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- [ ] Multiple element monitoring
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- [ ] Element naming/labeling
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### 9. Keyword Alerts - Week 7
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#### Keyword Engine
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- [ ] Keyword matching logic
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- [ ] Appears/disappears detection
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- [ ] Count tracking
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- [ ] Threshold checks
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- [ ] Regex support
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- [ ] Multiple keyword rules per monitor
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- [ ] AND/OR logic combinations
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- [ ] Case sensitivity options
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#### UI & Alerts
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- [ ] Keyword rule builder UI
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- [ ] Keyword match highlighting in diffs
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- [ ] Keyword-specific alert templates
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- [ ] Alert only on keyword match option
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### 10. Advanced Alerting - Week 7-8
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#### Digest Mode
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- [ ] Aggregate changes into digest
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- [ ] Daily digest scheduling
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- [ ] Weekly digest scheduling
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- [ ] Digest email template
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#### Smart Throttling
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- [ ] Quiet hours configuration
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- [ ] Max alerts per hour/day
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- [ ] Cooldown period settings
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- [ ] Alert settings UI
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#### Severity System
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- [ ] Calculate change severity
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- [ ] Small/medium/large changes
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- [ ] Price changes = high severity
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- [ ] Layout-only = low severity
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- [ ] Severity-based filtering
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- [ ] Visual severity indicators
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### 11. Billing & Subscriptions - Week 8-9
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#### Stripe Integration
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- [ ] Set up Stripe account
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- [ ] Create products and prices
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- [ ] Implement checkout flow
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- [ ] Subscription management
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- [ ] Upgrade/downgrade
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- [ ] Cancel subscription
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- [ ] Resume subscription
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- [ ] Payment method management
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- [ ] Invoice history
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#### Plan Gating
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- [ ] Implement usage tracking
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- [ ] Monitor count
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- [ ] Check frequency
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- [ ] History retention
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- [ ] Enforce plan limits
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- [ ] Usage dashboard for users
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- [ ] Upgrade prompts
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- [ ] Billing alerts
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### 12. Onboarding & UX - Week 9
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- [ ] Welcome tour
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- [ ] Example monitors (pre-configured)
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- [ ] Monitor templates
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- [ ] Job postings
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- [ ] Price tracking
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- [ ] Product availability
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- [ ] Improved empty states
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- [ ] Contextual help tooltips
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- [ ] Documentation site
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## V2 Phase (Market Winner)
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### 13. Visual Change Detection - Week 10-11
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#### Screenshot System
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- [ ] Set up Puppeteer/Playwright
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- [ ] Implement screenshot capture
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- [ ] Full page screenshots
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- [ ] Specific element screenshots
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- [ ] Screenshot storage optimization
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- [ ] Screenshot viewer UI
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#### Image Diff
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- [ ] Implement pixel-based comparison
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- [ ] Highlight changed regions
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- [ ] Before/After carousel
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- [ ] Visual diff overlay
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- [ ] Layout shift detection
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### 14. AI Summaries - Week 11-12
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#### LLM Integration
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- [ ] Set up OpenAI/Anthropic API
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- [ ] Implement change summarization
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- [ ] Prompt engineering
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- [ ] Token optimization
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- [ ] Change classification
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- [ ] Price change detection
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- [ ] Availability change
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- [ ] Policy update
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- [ ] Layout change
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- [ ] Summary caching
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#### Smart Alerts
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- [ ] Summary in alert emails
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- [ ] Classification-based filtering
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- [ ] Confidence scoring
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- [ ] Summary viewer UI
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### 15. Complex Page Support - Week 12-13
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#### JS Rendering
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- [ ] Headless browser mode toggle
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- [ ] Wait for network idle
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- [ ] Wait for specific elements
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- [ ] Dynamic content detection
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- [ ] SPA support
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#### Authentication
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- [ ] Basic auth support
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- [ ] Cookie storage
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- [ ] Login flow automation
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- [ ] Record login steps
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- [ ] Replay login
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- [ ] Session management
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- [ ] Credential encryption
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### 16. Integrations - Week 13-15
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#### Webhook System
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- [ ] Generic webhook POST
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- [ ] Webhook testing
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- [ ] Retry logic
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- [ ] Webhook logs
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#### Third-Party Services
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- [ ] Slack integration
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- [ ] OAuth flow
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- [ ] Channel selection
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- [ ] Message formatting
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- [ ] Discord webhooks
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- [ ] Microsoft Teams connector
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- [ ] RSS feed generation
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- [ ] Per-monitor feeds
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- [ ] Global feed
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- [ ] Authentication
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#### API
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- [ ] Design REST API
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- [ ] API key management
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- [ ] API documentation
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- [ ] OpenAPI spec
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- [ ] Interactive docs
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- [ ] Rate limiting
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- [ ] Webhooks for API users
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## Power User Phase
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### 17. Organization Features - Week 16
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- [ ] Folders/projects system
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- [ ] Tagging system
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- [ ] Full-text search
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- [ ] Advanced filtering
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- [ ] Bulk operations
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- [ ] CSV import
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- [ ] Export history
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- [ ] Bulk edit
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- [ ] Bulk delete
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### 18. Collaboration - Week 17-18
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#### Team Workspaces
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- [ ] Create workspace model
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- [ ] Team invitation system
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- [ ] Role-based permissions
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- [ ] Shared monitors
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- [ ] Audit logging
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#### Communication
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- [ ] Comments on changes
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- [ ] Assignment system
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- [ ] Team notifications
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- [ ] Activity feed
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### 19. Advanced Scheduling - Week 18-19
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- [ ] Custom cron schedules
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- [ ] Business hours only
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- [ ] Timezone configuration
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- [ ] Geo-distributed checks
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- [ ] Multiple check locations
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- [ ] Location comparison
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- [ ] Adaptive frequency
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- [ ] Check more during changes
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- [ ] Back off when stable
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## Ongoing Tasks
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### Marketing & Growth
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- [ ] Create landing page
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- [ ] Write blog posts for SEO
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- [ ] "How to monitor job postings"
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- [ ] "Track competitor prices"
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- [ ] "Monitor website availability"
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- [ ] Create comparison pages (vs. competitors)
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- [ ] Set up analytics (PostHog/Mixpanel)
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- [ ] Email marketing campaigns
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- [ ] Create demo video
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- [ ] Social media presence
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### Support & Documentation
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- [ ] Help center/knowledge base
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- [ ] API documentation
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- [ ] Video tutorials
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- [ ] Customer support system
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- [ ] Email support
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- [ ] Chat support (Intercom/Crisp)
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- [ ] FAQ page
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- [ ] Troubleshooting guides
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### Optimization & Maintenance
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- [ ] Performance monitoring
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- [ ] Database optimization
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- [ ] Query performance tuning
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- [ ] Cost optimization
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- [ ] Cloud resource usage
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- [ ] Email sending costs
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- [ ] Storage costs
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- [ ] Security updates
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- [ ] Dependency updates
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- [ ] Bug fixes and patches
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### Analytics & Iteration
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- [ ] User behavior tracking
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- [ ] Feature usage analytics
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- [ ] A/B testing framework
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- [ ] Customer feedback collection
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- [ ] NPS surveys
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- [ ] Churn analysis
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- [ ] Conversion funnel optimization
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## Risk Management
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### Technical Risks
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- **Risk**: Blocked by anti-bot measures
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- **Mitigation**: Residential proxies, browser fingerprinting, rate limiting
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- **Risk**: Scaling issues with thousands of checks
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- **Mitigation**: Distributed queue, horizontal scaling, caching
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- **Risk**: High false positive rate
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- **Mitigation**: Better filtering, user feedback loop, ML training
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### Business Risks
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- **Risk**: High infrastructure costs
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- **Mitigation**: Efficient caching, optimize storage, tiered plans
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- **Risk**: Low conversion rate
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- **Mitigation**: Strong onboarding, free tier value, quick wins
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- **Risk**: Competitive market
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- **Mitigation**: Focus on noise reduction, better UX, integrations
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## Launch Checklist
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### Pre-Launch
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- [ ] MVP features complete and tested
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- [ ] Landing page live
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- [ ] Pricing page finalized
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- [ ] Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
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- [ ] Payment processing tested
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- [ ] Email deliverability tested
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- [ ] Error monitoring configured
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- [ ] Backup system tested
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### Launch Day
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- [ ] Deploy to production
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- [ ] Monitor error rates
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- [ ] Watch server resources
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- [ ] Test critical user flows
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- [ ] Announce on social media
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- [ ] Submit to directories (Product Hunt, etc.)
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- [ ] Email early access list
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### Post-Launch
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- [ ] Daily metric review (signups, monitors, errors)
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- [ ] User feedback collection
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- [ ] Bug triage and fixes
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- [ ] Performance optimization
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- [ ] Feature prioritization based on feedback
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