Project · Art Meets Algorithm

NotifyMe

Watch one page. Say it in one sentence. Get told when it matters.

You are waiting on something online. A job listing to open. A price to drop. A visa slot, a result, a restock. So you check the page. Then you check it again. Then you forget for two days and miss it entirely.

The tools built to watch pages for you want the request in their language first: pick a piece of code on the page, set a threshold, choose a comparison mode. All to describe something you could say in one sentence.

NotifyMe takes the sentence. Tell it what you are waiting for, give it the page, say how often to look.

Silence is not the same as nothing changed.

Here is the part nobody else will copy. When one of these tools cannot read a page, because the site started blocking it or the layout moved, the others tell you nothing changed, since admitting a technical failure looks like a broken product. Quiet reads exactly like everything is fine. NotifyMe says it could not look, out loud, with its own status and its own alert.

Built in one day at the Collabute x TheBlock hackathon in Dubai with Devin, Convex and Context.dev. I owned the pitch, the submission and the business case behind it.

1day, start to demo
1sentence to set a watch
3tools in the stack
FinalistCollabute x TheBlock
Dubai, August 2026. Demo watched a job listing, and caught it being taken down.

How it works

How NotifyMe watchesOne sentence sets the watch, the page is checked on a schedule, and the result is either a change worth acting on, silence, or an honest admission that it could not look. One sentencewhat you are waiting for, the page, how often It looks, on scheduleand remembers every observation Something changedyou get told Nothing changedyou get left alone Could not lookyou get told that too You act on itbefore the window closes
Read the business case See the pitch deck See the code ↗

Team build: Ibrahim on product and code, Fatmah on the demo, Pavel on the second surface, me on the case, the pitch and the presentation. Questions or ideas: say hi.

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