yipwatch a neonburro sidekick

standing watch

Something is coming.
Look up.

You tell it what to look for. It checks every hour, remembers everything it has already seen, and writes to you only when something is genuinely new.

Tell it what to watch

what you can point it at

It does not care what it is watching

It is one machine and a question. Change the question and it is a different tool. These are real ones, not categories.

For a business

  • a competitor quietly changing their prices
  • a building permit filed in your county
  • a public bid or an RFP you could win
  • a review landing anywhere with your name on it
  • a licence or an inspection posted in your town
  • a job opening for the role you keep losing people to

For a person

  • one exact thing, in your size, under your number
  • a house going up on your street
  • a flight to one place below a price
  • a ticket resale dropping under face value
  • your own name, anywhere it appears
  • a word turning up in a council agenda

For a number

  • a price crossing a line, either direction
  • a count passing a number today
  • a figure that moves more than it should
  • something that stops happening

That last one is the one nobody sells. Everything else here tells you when something appears. This tells you when something goes quiet, and quiet is what businesses actually lose money to, because nothing raises an error when the orders simply stop.

If you can describe it out loud, it can probably be watched. None of that is a menu, it is a starting point, and the first read is free whatever you ask for.

what it actually does

It remembers

An auction sits live for a week. A watcher without a memory finds the same thing every hour and mails it to you every hour, and you mute it on day two. Everything found is written down first, so a thing is reported once and never again.

It filters

One brand name alone returned 112 results, among them cologne, a blouse and an aftershave. A price floor and a list of words that rule a thing out are the difference between a tool you keep and one you turn off.

It counts the real price

On a seven dollar item the shipping is most of the cost. Every find carries the landed price, so a cheap thing with brutal postage never reads as a deal.

It stops

Nothing is bought, bid on, signed or sent on your behalf. It watches and it tells you. Anything that costs money or is hard to undo waits for a person, and that is the feature rather than the limitation.

running right now

What the watch is holding today

This board is live from the studio's own watch, not a screenshot of one. It is the same machine a client's watch runs on.

Reading the feed…

the door

Tell it what to watch

List everything you want watched, one per line, in whatever words you would use out loud. There is no limit on how many. A person reads every request and writes back before anything is switched on.

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