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Hacking Burning Man tickets with APIs and text messages

by pranade on 9/15/14, 5:59 PM with 6 comments

• by architgupta on 9/15/14, 10:17 PM

  In a similar way, we use Kimono for tracking changes to a few sites, which don't have an RSS or an API. I am pleasantly surprised to see Kimono can deal with hairy forum html.

  I think our team uses kimono with zapier to trigger an email alert (similar to the OP using twilio to alert himself).

  I'm really happy with Kimono!

• by nealchandra on 9/15/14, 8:14 PM

  I wonder how much of the human side of this process could be automated. Would be cool to see something like this where it automatically sends message to potential sellers, etc -- and you're only notified when there's actually a possible purchase to be made.