I’m curious if this is a problem other agencies actually deal with

We manage retainer clients and every so often a client will email us saying something on their site looks broken. Nine times out of ten it's a WordPress plugin update that shifted a layout, a hero image that stopped loading, etc. We find out from them instead of the other way around, which is an awkward position to be in when you're supposed to be the one watching their site. I've looked at tools like Visualping, ChangeTower, and Distill. They all work the same way. You give them a URL, they alert you when something changes. That’s fine for monitoring a few pages yourself, but they don't really fit an agency workflow. There's no concept of a client, there’s no way to group pages by account, and you can’t actually show a client at the end of the month to prove you're on top of things. The developer tools like Percy and Applitools are a different thing entirely. They plug into CI pipelines and need an engineer to set them up. Not useful for an account manager who just wants to know if a client's homepage looks broken this morning. What I keep thinking about is something simpler. A web app that allows you to organize by client, take screenshots on a schedule, flag visual changes before the client notices, and generates a monthly summary you can send to the client. It would be less about code deployments and more about just knowing your clients' sites are visually intact. Is this something you actually run into, or do you have a system that handles it already? Would something like this be worth paying for, or is it too niche to budget for? Am I missing a tool that already does this well? Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks. submitted by /u/newintownla [link] [留言]