Automation

Platinum Pulse is a web app that aggregates live occupancy data for Fitness Platinum clubs. Small disclaimer: the audience here is tiny. Fitness Platinum is a gym franchise in Kraków and Katowice, Poland. I recently built a tiny iOS app to instantly generate the gym QR codes I need. “Doesn’t your gym have an official iOS app?” It does. It’s just bloated with things I don’t use: booking classes, setting goals, shopping (why?), and it takes way too many taps to reach the only feature I care about. ...

Problem? I wanted to get notified about new openings as soon as they come up. Even though I’m only interested in a handful of companies, manually checking each careers page gets boring pretty quickly. I’m aware there are some paid tools that solve this exact problem (hello Fluxguard, Versionista), but I’m too cheap for that. In this short tutorial, we’ll set up monitoring using a self-hosted instance of Changedetection.io to solve this problem. ...