How to bypass the Server Bot Check The first check request is where the server checks if your worth sending the base html page to. This doesn’t contain any useful data like prices, this is just “should I even bother responding”. Since we’re a new client at this point (no session history), there’s a limited […]
How to bypass Interaction Checks It’s not enough just to check that the browser properties are all in order. Good bot detection scripts also monitor human interaction to check for authenticity. When you or I move a mouse on the screen, we follow a predictable and human-like behaviour. Bots do not. Bots move in a […]
How to avoid bot detection Client Checks This section is all about the wonderful extensibility of javascript and the browser.Client checks happen with a javascript library before any sensitive information is shown. Lot’s of metrics from browser performance, screen size and graphics rendering are all compiled into a nice little package and sent off to […]
This is something I’ve struggled with. I hope this will help you become a valued person in your community/workplace. Juggling priorities is all about setting and managing expectations. Expectations that are met or exceeded are a success and will make you a valuable person. Expectations that are not met are a mark against you. So it’s important […]
Back in 2022, I started a company called Product Sonar that aimed to scrape ecommerce prices from popular websites in the hardware store industry. Sound pretty simple right? Pull up Screaming Frog or Scraping Bee and you’re off to the races right? Wrong. These sites have the likes of Akamai and CHEQ, with a lot […]
Validating Saas ideas is hard. Back in the good ol’ days I had a pretty good validation technique – squinting and thinking really hard about the idea for a couple days. Turns out, hypothesizing in your head about how an idea might pan out isn’t really the best method. To be fair, I was using […]
*note: if you haven’t listened to Searching for Saas episode 10 and episode 11, you probably want to stop right here and listen to those first. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably read a lot of “how-to” startup material. “How to scale your business from 1k to 100k”, “How to hire your first employees”, […]
It seems like everyone is creating a podcast these days. Josh Ho (@jlogic) have been hanging out for a while. We’re forever talking about Saas stuff – business models, positioning – that sort of thing. It usually starts with one of us seeing something interesting and me asking lots of questions about it. Out of […]
I’ve been struggling to find a nice set of frameworks for my day-to-day work. Yes, I’ve got those big packages like Golang, React, React Native, Postgres, TimescaleDB … but I’m talking about the finer things. Like how to setup your server-side routing and authentication in a nice way. Or how to deal with authentication and […]
This post marks the beginning of something new. This post is really just here because it makes me happy to start new things with “Hello world!”.