Maybe I am bad at digging, but I couldn't find anything about siteone.io. The entire situation is strange.
Older discussion with one reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292651
I scrolled down, and the video with the cartoon font? Oh god, that reminds me of an exchange student at uni who used a Teddy Bear PowerPoint template for a presentation.
janreges is according to the website (siteone.cz) one of the top 3 people at his company, and the tool and website look well made. By "non-professional" I meant that there is some kind of mismatch between my expectations and the style he replies to people here.
I was trying to establish the oddity of the situation to encourage more digging, and didn't express my point clearly enough.
My apologies to janreges. I know my own expertise and social sense are bad, so please don't take any of this to heart.
For about 20 years, I have been leading the development and infrastructure of the Czech webdev company SiteOne, so I wouldn't say that I am not a professional ;) I have around 50,000 hours of practice. But I definitely know a lot of better programmers than me and many of them are at SiteOne :)
However, after the extremely premature birth of my son, I had to change my role at SiteOne, but all the more I wanted to help my colleagues with a useful tool that we generally lacked and at the same time I wanted to give myself joy in difficult times.
I want to implement a number of other useful improvements into the crawler (some of them are also described in the documentation and roadmap) and work on its promoting in parallel. The more people will use it, the more it will help to optimize the website, the more it will help developers and testers with various needs, the more joy it will give me :)
By the way, the GUI application https://github.com/janreges/siteone-crawler-gui is just a visual wrapper over the command-line version of SiteOne Crawler and integrates it into itself.
I'm a partial nerd and probably exactly your audience - I run a small tech agency, familiar enough with PHP to break things but not a proper dev, work on all range of stuff like SEO / content / accessibility / etc... ie - this is exactly the kind of tool I'm looking for to do site audits, content stuff, etc. Normally I find myself reaching for yet another license of Screaming Frog's SEO Spider [0] and find myself groaning at having to pay another £240 p/a - but do it anyway...
Anyway - at first attempt with this I get a "won't install" warning on my Mac. And it's sufficiently scary for someone like me (techy enough to be aware of all the potential things that can go wrong with just installing any old software from the web but not skilled enough to look at the source code and figure out if you're legit or doing something awful to me...) - that I just can't really justify installing it.
Your message about it being notarized and potentially ok to find on the Mac App Store is reassuring at first, but dated 2023.
(I know I have a slight double standard here in that I install Screaming Frog but I've used it for years and know it, whereas you feel fairly unknown...)
So - just some feedback there, I think I'm exactly your audience, and I'd pay for this, given some further signals that it's legit.
So even if you try to install the latest version 1.0.8 on macOS, it tells you that it won't install it? I'm not a macOS user, but for this project I bought a MacBook M1 and built the app and tested it on it. Thanks to the notarization, the application was installed without any problems. But maybe I missed something. But there will probably be a problem if you report it. By the way, did you download the correct version for your Mac? For M1/M2/M3 processors you need to download the arm64 version, for Macs with an Intel processor you need to download the x64 version.
PS: publishing the application to the AppStore didn't seem easy and unfortunately I didn't have time to go through the whole process. I will try to get it done by the end of the year.