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Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by VeilEm »

tombrossman wrote: post #10
will_hughes wrote: post #3

The domain 'blog.lacour.me' doesn't resolve for me: Your name servers seem to be ns[1-5].he.net, and ns1.he.net doesn't know what blog.lacour.me is: > blog.lacour.me Server: ns1.he.net Address: 216.218.130.2 *** No address (A) records available for blog.lacour.me

It's not using an A record, it's using a CNAME: host blog.lacour.me blog.lacour.me is an alias for silvrback.herokuapp.com. silvrback.herokuapp.com is an alias for us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com has address 54.83.3.141

The CNAME doesn't resolve for me either. I can't see whatever this is.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by rickycook »

nodesocket wrote: post #6

Really nice hack. Unrelated, by I checked out your startup https://hund.io . My question is... Why not just use https://StatusPage.io ? They are launched, funded, refined, and the de-facto standard. What is your value prop?

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by perishabledave »

Slightly aside, but is there any evidence that the warmth of the light effects sleep? The cited paper compares a light emitting device to a book, which would not be the same as f.lux and this.

Not trying to dismiss this. I'd genuinely like to know as I'm often on my computer late at night.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by nodesocket »

rickycook wrote: post #13
nodesocket wrote: post #6

Really nice hack. Unrelated, by I checked out your startup https://hund.io . My question is... Why not just use https://StatusPage.io ? They are launched, funded, refined, and the de-facto standard. What is your value prop?

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

Pricing is not a value prop. $99 is actually a smart and fair price, their target market is businesses, not individual developers, and hobbyist.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by tyre »

rickycook wrote: post #13
nodesocket wrote: post #6

Really nice hack. Unrelated, by I checked out your startup https://hund.io . My question is... Why not just use https://StatusPage.io ? They are launched, funded, refined, and the de-facto standard. What is your value prop?

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

This!

Their business pricing, which includes SSL, starts at $399 per month.

Or you can self-host with something like http://staytus.co/

Yes you have to set up multi-AZ deployment, but that's super simple on AWS. Add in their new free SSL certs and voila!

Even as a small startup, that's easily worth the time to save nearly $5k per year.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by nodesocket »

tyre wrote: post #16
rickycook wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

This! Their business pricing, which includes SSL, starts at $399 per month. Or you can self-host with something like http://staytus.co/ Yes you have to set up multi-AZ deployment, but that's super simple on AWS. Add in their new free SSL certs and voila! Even as a small startup, that's easily worth the time to save nearly $5k per year.

This is exactly the developer behavior that can cause a good startup to fail. Stop trying to optimize every penny! Optimize what matters. Your business.

Sure, you can spin up two, three, four instances in AWS across multiple availability zones. Sure, you can install Ubuntu and manage servers. Sure, you can setup an ELB, or maybe you go the extra yard and configure NGINX. Sure you can deploy an open source rails or node status page app. All wasted energy and wasted cycles that should have been utilized on your idea directly.

I've seen this attitude of extreme frugalness/cheapness and it seems to be a trait that engineers are almost proud of, and brag about. Toxic behavior.

Disclosure: I am myself an engineer, but also founder.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by encoderer »

nodesocket wrote: post #15
rickycook wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

Pricing is not a value prop. $99 is actually a smart and fair price, their target market is businesses, not individual developers, and hobbyist.

Serving a lower price point is a perfectly valid strategy.

That said, I agree with you that there is a reason their pricing is high. It's a more profitable business. Unless you're Netflix it's hard to build a business charging $10/mo. So compete on price, sure, but it can't hurt to find a few rough spots on their product that you can improve. When we launched cronitor.io we at first competed on price but we also had objectively better technology: faster alerting, etc. As we've developed the product we've been able to charge more and it's worked out well.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by xresonance »

perishabledave wrote: post #14

Slightly aside, but is there any evidence that the warmth of the light effects sleep? The cited paper compares a light emitting device to a book, which would not be the same as f.lux and this. Not trying to dismiss this. I'd genuinely like to know as I'm often on my computer late at night.

Yes, and plenty to read on the subject. Look around for blue light and sleep / circadian rhythm / melatonin production.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/

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