Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
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Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#2$5/mo for an out-of-my-control ActionMailer setup? And I'd be limited to 100 events/mo?
I mean, we're doing this already for registration on our platform and it took me 45 minutes to setup in Rails for a range of events, and I can style the output to send to the human C-levels.
Not sure what this will accomplish, hopefully you can fill me in on the value prop.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#3$5/mo for an out-of-my-control ActionMailer setup? And I'd be limited to 100 events/mo? I mean, we're doing this already for registration on our platform and it took me 45 minutes to setup in Rails for a range of events, and I can style the output to send to the human C-levels. Not sure what this will accomplish, hopefully you can fill me in on the value prop.
Whats the added value of sendgrid over gmail api? of zencoder over ffmpeg? you can do everything on your own, of course. All depends on your abilities and resources. This is something I found myself doing in many apps, and thought to spin it off to a separate and independent service for the joy of others. It can save them from [usually] ugly coding, it adds a central and single place of mngmt for all this notification management, both for events and for recipients. IMO its useful and worth it but I'm of course totally biased.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#4Looking at the documentation I would have to figure out who a VIP is. Then call an API method. The service converts the payload I send into an email. The example in the documentation looks at the last name of the user ("Zuckerberg") only. I don't think the service solves the use-case described in the title.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#5Looking at the documentation I would have to figure out who a VIP is. Then call an API method. The service converts the payload I send into an email. The example in the documentation looks at the last name of the user ("Zuckerberg") only. I don't think the service solves the use-case described in the title.
I admit the title is a little scoopy but it needs to grab attention. As for identifying celebrity signups, if they sign up via facebook for instance, you can quickly count their followers count for instance and alert if it's >X.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#6$5/mo for an out-of-my-control ActionMailer setup? And I'd be limited to 100 events/mo? I mean, we're doing this already for registration on our platform and it took me 45 minutes to setup in Rails for a range of events, and I can style the output to send to the human C-levels. Not sure what this will accomplish, hopefully you can fill me in on the value prop.
I can see the value where you would need to fire email alerts from different parts of your stack, and have a central place to control and config them.
What happens next, for example, when you need to send alerts from frontend events? Or from other non-Rails parts? Duplicate code and logic?
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#7I'm curious if you already got some subscribers for you service. Did you?
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#8I'm curious if you already got some subscribers for you service. Did you?
paid subscribers? honestly not yet. Just have a few trials out of some tiny marketing efforts, nothing serious. If this goes to HN front page though then we can consider this launch.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#9$5/mo for an out-of-my-control ActionMailer setup? And I'd be limited to 100 events/mo? I mean, we're doing this already for registration on our platform and it took me 45 minutes to setup in Rails for a range of events, and I can style the output to send to the human C-levels. Not sure what this will accomplish, hopefully you can fill me in on the value prop.
Whats the added value of sendgrid over gmail api? of zencoder over ffmpeg? you can do everything on your own, of course. All depends on your abilities and resources. This is something I found myself doing in many apps, and thought to spin it off to a separate and independent service for the joy of others. It can save them from [usually] ugly coding, it adds a central and single place of mngmt for all this notificatio…
But in this case you _literally_ have to do exactly the same amount of work as you'd do while doing it yourself.
Re: Show HN: Pingpoint – Business logic alerts to the right person at the right time
#10I'm... still confused as to what this is. It sends emails, based on events? The FAQ link at the bottom leads to nowhere, there's no explicit "Pingpoint is an API that does XYZ", and nothing beyond the front-page multipage. Your website has virtually unlimited space - you should use it to explain what I'm actually looking at.