We monitor 31 supplier pages with Detector. Every change alert goes to a mailbox that one person reads, and by the time it is forwarded into the right channel the change is a day old.
What we actually need
- A Slack workspace connection, set up once by an admin.
- A default channel every alert posts into.
- Per-monitor routing, so a monitor can override the default.
The message itself does not need to be clever. A title, the URL, what changed and a link into the dashboard covers it — we open the diff in the app anyway.
Why it matters
The value of a change alert decays fast. A supplier price page that changed this morning is worth a conversation today; the same alert on Thursday is archaeology. Email adds a person-shaped delay to every one of them.
What we do today
A rule in the shared mailbox forwards anything from Detector to a Zapier hook that posts into #supplier-watch. It works until somebody edits the rule, and it drops the diff link because the forwarded HTML gets mangled.