What’s New — March 21-23, 2026

New

  • Website monitoring for competitor pages — Track changes to competitors’ homepage, pricing page, and features page. You’ll receive Slack and email alerts whenever content changes, with a plain-English summary of what shifted and which page was affected. Available on Pulse plan.
  • Light/dark mode toggle — Switch between light and dark mode from the sidebar. Your preference is saved across sessions and defaults to dark.

Improved

  • Adding a competitor now feels instant — The competitor row appears immediately when you click Track, with a spinner while it loads. No more blank state waiting for the server.
  • “Next sync” timer on your dashboard is accurate — The countdown now shows the real scheduled sync time based on your last sync and plan interval, not a static estimate.
  • Website change notifications use clear, readable labels — Page slots and change types now appear as plain English (“Homepage”, “Pricing page”, “Content changed”) in Slack and email alerts.
  • Active users are now crawled correctly — If you used the app without dismissing the “while you were away” panel, the system wasn’t counting you as active for crawl scheduling. Fixed — last visit time now updates on login.

Fixed

  • Website monitoring alerts no longer arrive without context — AI summaries, page labels, and change descriptions were missing from some notifications due to a database gap. All fields now populate correctly.
  • Crawl pipeline no longer fails after a deploy — A platform quirk was breaking the crawl pipeline after every deploy. It is now stable across deployments.

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