TheWhen allows you to create your own custom "Information Alerts". These can take many forms.
Maybe you want to book a trip to Miami in November of this year, but the hotel you have been eyeing is just too expensive. No problem! Create a when to alert you if it falls back to a reasonable rate.
Maybe you like to keep an eye on FDA clinical trials but find it tiring to refresh their page every hour. Create a when! It can tell you when a new report has been added that meets your criteria.
Whitewater stand-up paddleboarding more your thing? Build a when to track water levels along your local river.
We keep an eye on your whens, and once their criteria are met, we instantly email you so you can check the page.
There are millions of possibilities; try it out and let us know if you come up with something particularly interesting!
AI-- and specifically Large Language Models-- have supercharged computers' capacity for reasoning and understanding. By some metrics they are already more intelligent than most of the population! However, much like self-driving cars, most LLMs still require a human to be actively engaged to make use of them. This is what we aim to change, allowing you to avoid endless scrolling, refreshing, and alarm-setting by simply telling us when you would like to be notified of... anything! Stock prices, ticket availability, low-stock product alerts-- the possibilities are endless.
TheWhen is able to monitor any publicly-available site which does not implement blockers against the type of automation we use to periodically check on your alerts. Unfortunately, popular websites like Twitter, Amazon, and Reddit actively block this type of web browsing. We are working to make more of these pages available in the future, but for now any sites that are known to not work correctly will be automatically disallowed.
The list above is not exhaustive and you may well find other examples where theWhen does not work. This is the reason we've included the Verify Alert functionality, so please double-check the screenshot included with your preview to ensure it looks like a valid page.
Assume you are talking to a person that is looking at the webpage you entered. Then complete the phrase:
"Given the webpage you are looking at, would you say that _____?"
Say you want to be alerted when flights to Amsterdam drop below $500. If the URL you entered points to a page that only has flights to Amsterdam, your alert condition may be "Flights are under $500"
However, if the page shows flights to many locations on different dates, your alert condition may be "Flights to Amsterdam on February 31 are under $500"
Don't be afraid to play around with it. It can be helpful to use the Verify Alert functionality to first test an alert condition that is already satisfied. Once you are confident that that the AI is understanding, you may enter your actual condition. Using the example above-- and assuming the Amsterdam flights cost $900-- our test case may read "Flights to Amsterdam are under $1000".
Not at the moment. Our current AI really only understands the text content on a page, but we'll soon be rolling out a beta version of an image-first model.