Your bots, while you sleep
Hire a little worker to watch the internet for you.
Tell it what to watch and what matters, in a sentence. It looks every day and emails you only when something actually happened — not a daily digest of nothing, not a dashboard to remember to check.
Free to start: 500 credits a month, as many bots as you like. You don’t pay for a bot to look.
- When
- Every morning at 7:00, or the moment you press Run now
- Looks at
- REI, Backcountry and Patagonia — Nano Puff, men’s, medium
- Cares
- Under $100, or 30% off. Not refurbished, not third-party sellers.
- Tells me
- By email, only when it finds something. Quiet days stay quiet.
- Can’t
- Buy anything. Email anyone but you. Touch your accounts.
That is the whole job description. Every line is yours to tap and change — and the last one is enforced, not promised.
The email is the product.
Not a feed to scroll, not a report to open. One message, when there is something to say, written like somebody actually looked — because something did.
And it tells you once. The same change never arrives twice, however many times the bot looks afterwards.
The Nano Puff is $89 at REI.
Down from $149, where it had sat since I started looking on 3 September. Men’s medium, three left.
I checked 41 listings this morning. Nothing else was under your bar. Looking again tomorrow at 7.
Six jobs people give them.
Every one of these is the same thing underneath: a page, and a sentence about what matters. Start from one of them, or describe your own.
Page Watcher
“Tell me when this page changes — and what changed.”
Deal Hawk
“Tell me when it drops under $100.”
New Episode
“Tell me the moment a new one is out.”
Job Scout
“Tell me when they post something I’d want.”
Place Finder
“Tell me when a place under $1,400 appears.”
Team Beat
“Tell me when there’s real news, not rumors.”
You don’t pay for a bot to look.
A bot that checks its page and finds nothing changed costs us almost nothing, so it costs you nothing. That is the whole reason a free bot can keep running year-round instead of quietly being switched off.
- Free
- 500 credits a month, as many bots as you like, a check every day.
- Looking
- Costs nothing. Fetch the page, compare it to last time, stop.
- Thinking
- Costs a credit or two — and only happens when the page actually moved.
What it can’t do, on purpose.
An unattended worker that reads the open internet has to have edges. These are ours, and they are enforced in code rather than asked for politely.
It only reads public pages.
No accounts of yours, no logins, nothing behind a password. It sees what you would see.
It can’t buy anything.
Not now, not by accident, not because a page told it to. Finding is the whole job.
The only person it emails is you.
At the address you verified. Nothing on a watched page can introduce a new recipient — that path does not exist in the code.
It tells you once.
One change, one email. It will not re-announce the same thing tomorrow because it looked again.
What would you rather not check again?
A price, a listing, a releases page, a policy someone keeps quietly editing. Name it, say what matters, and stop opening the tab.
Hire your first bot