HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

garazy

121 karma · joined April 14, 2010

http://builtwith.com
submissionscomments
garazy··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Hi Simon and HN checkout https://rmcp.dev - it's part of BuiltWith's MCP discovery and lets you sniff around all of the MCP servers (remote at least) that we've discovered - allowing you to connect to them etc. and see what they do. Thought it might be relevant vis your mcp-explorer.
garazy··on BuiltWith MCP Registry
Search a continuously updated registry of remote Model Context Protocol endpoints detected on websites, pretend you're the AI bot :)

Open any result to connect to its MCP server, inspect the tools it exposes and invoke supported tools directly from the registry.

garazy··on Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)
USPTO MP3 Correct Link: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/74309951.mp3
garazy··on We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider
Could this be linked to truthsocial.com ? https://builtwith.com/detailed/truthsocial.com
garazy··on What website has the most redirecting ccTLDs?
Top 10 -

emirates.com

bearingpoint.com

redbull.com

rolex.com

crowe.com

volvocars.com

badoo.com

nike.com

schindler.com

festo.com

skyscanner.net

garazy··on Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join
I had this too for my extension - as mentioned there’s a security explanation tab now on the developer dashboard. I also removed any http requirements and made then https and stopped using external scripts/css hopefully enough - annoying their messaging is so vague and menacing.
garazy··on Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines
They are growing in Scotland according to the Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia and I've seen a large one growing unprotected at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

I have two of these Wollemi pines after reading about the story of them a few years ago and being fascinated (I paid $100 for them but worth it to tell people the story). The trick to keeping them alive is to not do anything with them at all I think.

garazy··on Ask HN: Contact at Google Chrome Web Store?
Yes I feel sorry for people who's entire livelihood rely on these apps - there's no phone number or name to contact just a black hole to email.
garazy··on Ask HN: Contact at Google Chrome Web Store?
I've had the same issue with my extension - it has 250k users and it was removed a few days ago with no warning. I recieved one reply 12 hours later saying there was "too many keywords" in the description. It has been in the Chrome Web Store for at least 5 years with the same description - very odd and it is still not restored.
garazy··on Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots
Had exactly the same problem - if you can get them into a question/answer format https://qnamaker.ai works for us.
garazy··on How We Found All of Optimizely's Clients
On a interesting side note Optimizely was a very early customer of ours (BuiltWith) starting in 2010 which helped them find customers for their own tool based on sites using their competitors (which at the time wasn't very many), I don't think it will bother them that other businesses can do the same thing.

Glad to see all these other tools in the market now there was and is clearly a need for it.

garazy··on One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue
Apologies Dan I've totally removed your website from the system - anyone can do this via http://builtwith.com/removals
garazy··on Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch
Exactly right, "worth" should only really be used if someone else would pay $600M for it today.
garazy··on $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
Might help to compete against Amazon as they and Akamai have the lions share of YCombinator sites - http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-reports/Y-Combinator/hostin...
garazy··on HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
Looks like a few of the tracking companies only just started to appear -

http://builtwith.com/detailed/healthcare.gov

The only non-ad tool they added was the Twitter Platform to their homepage. Lots of data leakage points though.

garazy··on TXT Record XSS
I've found about 80 TXT records with <script tags in them - most of them look like the person not understanding where to paste a JavaScript snippet over XSS attempts, here's all of them -

http://builtwith.com/script-tags-in-TXT-records.txt

There's a few that are "13h.be/x.js" that look like someone trying this out before.

garazy··on Ask HN: What's the largest website hosted on Digital Ocean?
If you count sub-domains on Alexa top domains here's a few big companies in there like iStockPhoto and Debenhams -

  discover.istockphoto.com
  store.xda-developers.com
  support.sharebeast.com
  finance.debenhams.com
  poy.tsn.ca
  m.nzherald.co.nz
  blog.telmex.com
  business.un.org
  coinad.com
  status.formstack.com
  indulgy.com
  all-that-is-interesting.com
  pbh2.com
  edoqs.com
  grandascent.com
  locations.paychex.com
  pagelines.com
  danjur.com
  mrmoneymustache.com
We've got some historical stats for them here but we only started tracking in January -

https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean

Not sure if this is of any interest but this is where they are getting new customers from (from most to least)

  Linode
  Softlayer	
  Rackspace	
  Amazon	
  GoDaddy
garazy··on This startup tells you when companies try your competitors’ software
Hi nice article congrats on the coverage - we do have this functionality for anyone interested - http://trendspro.builtwith.com/pro-features#alerts
garazy··on Twitter using Google Web Server?
We've excluded most websites which contain user generated content because of the false positives they give off like this. We've added twitter.com to that list.
garazy··on Top Sites Built with Ruby on Rails
Nice list but if you include off-homepage usage by the top sites then you get massive companies like

Amazon studios.amazon.com

Twitter support.twitter.com

Weather feedback.weather.com

Go sportsnation.espn.go.com

AT&T insider.att.com

Target weeklyad.target.com

Imgur store.imgur.com

Photobucket support.photobucket.com

Shameless plug - all found at http://builtwith.com

garazy··on How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients
Great site guys! We've been tracking Optimizely and 5000 other technologies for a few years. Optimizely is doing really well - http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely
garazy··on Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using
Hey yonasb this is really cool, if you'd like to automate it a bit let me know we've got an API for this (api.builtwith.com) and we've got free attribution version that you could use.
garazy··on PHP Just Grows And Grows
I think we've reached "Peak PHP" our data[1] shows PHP isn't growing at all in the top million sites and Netcraft's data reflects that if you take the "active sites" bar back to the middle of 2011.

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/PHP

garazy··on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
We've got trends for trackers that we can detect and are currently not loaded by third party JS -

To name a few -

http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/LeadLander http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Hubspot http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Marketo

There's a lot of them out there now and mostly all of the big ones are continue to grow in popularity.

garazy··on Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
How relatively easy is this to do for governments? Are there systems in place in other countries which makes this extremely complex/impossible to do?
garazy··on A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956
These crossovers of time are fascinating and interesting to research i.e. people who used the internet before the airplane was invented.
garazy··on First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
Please send me an email with regards to the issues with the builtwith data, I'd be happy to identify the false positives to ensure they are not in your reports. Thanks!
garazy··on “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer
I had exactly the same call with someone, I wish I'd thought of the VM idea but I didn't, however I did record it -

http://soundcloud.com/gbrewer-1/microsoft-telephone-scam/s-e...

I felt a bit sorry for the guy it's clearly a boiler room with high expectations.

garazy··on Google+ grows 43% in June
I agree with this.

The implementation of Google+ Platform on websites seems to have plateaued recently, meaning, if these stats are correct, the visitors are probably not coming in from the web, they may be being coerced in from other Google products.

http://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/Google-Plus-One-Platform

Disclaimer I run BuiltWith.

garazy··on Ask HN: how to acquire customers which are small businesses via internet?
A good place to look might be at your competitors. If your product is better, easier or cheaper then that might be a good source of potential customers as you know they understand the problem and already have/maybe pay for a solution.

Here comes the non-shameless plug, BuiltWith TrendsPro might be a good tool to find these sorts of businesses.

Page 1 of 2Next →