kasparloog

Monitoring is a good idea. However, pixel-based comparison services are quite pointless for web pages. Banners, dynamic content etc. simply drives spam.

Try Browserbite with its feature-based comparison. There are other regression-oriented tools out there as well that use pixel-based methods as well.

Yes, the corporate tax is 0%.

There is a dividend tax, making this business environment expecially lucrative if your plan is to reinvest profits.

VAT is 20%

Income tax for physical person is 20% and the company has to pay on top of it roughly 33% of social taxes. There's a plan in place to reduce social tax by 1%

No other catches.

I'm the competitor nirvdrum was mentioning (Browserbite). We had a very nice founder-to-founder talk and we have gone through quite a few of the same failures that he has. I have all the respect for nirvdrum. Most people don't manage to hang on that long.

To be honest, I was sorry to see mogotest go, because it shows that there might not be any business in cross browser testing. But there is! In my eyes it was a valid effort on all fronts - trying to build a community and handling lots of browser vendor irregularities. He was one of the first ones. But the market wasn't there, yet.

Good luck! The cross browser testing space will miss him!

Akamai uses a different way to count the usage compare to Net Applications. Hence the difference. Also, Akamai's presence in China is somewhat of a question.

Well - that's enough work to maintain your own app. Maintainging a fork of Rails and drilling through all of the vulnerabilities - that's an extra overhead. It's simpler to regression test your own app, I suppose.

Yes, it is possible! Can you drop me an e-mail (you can find it on our site) on how do you plan to use the service for this purpose. Skype call could be best!

We have plans to support the typical resolutions as well. 1366, 1920 and typical mobile/tablet resolutions. Is that what you're looking for?

P.S. You can use the feedback button in the app to send more idea!

We're planning to have monthly subscription that would include 50-100 comparisons (depending on how many configurations you want to have in the package) for $99 per month. Priority processing is for all paying customers, of course.

There's also going to be Enterprise pricing that includes - scripting support, testing behind firewalls and some other extras.

You can write a whole PhD thesis about it. Basically it is a result of a 2+ year research project how to detect differences that are relevant to people. In fact the computers find a lot more differences when you compare pixel-by-pixel. The keywords are machine vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning.

The hardest part of working out the right balance of what to detect was to make the algorithm less picky without losing an eye for detail.

We've benchmarked the algorithm against professional layout testers and the fault detection quality is on the same level with them.

We ARE working on the payment module right now to give paying customers priority. For now, we just try keep our servers up to handle the load :)

Kaspar from Browserbite

We are suffering an overload right now. Normally a test does run in 20-30 seconds. We're doing everything we can to serve all the users that have signed up today and scale our servers.

Sincerely,

Browserbite team

We're tackling the same question in our startup. A good insight!