Show HN: Bananalert • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by rplnt » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

click170 wrote: post #6

This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

Having a domain name would help too.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by ollybee » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

I would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:12 PM UTC

click170 wrote: post #6

This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally).

So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random site in XHR).

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by robotnoises » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #7

What's your exit strategy?

Probably something along the lines of "I'll drive away from the building in my new Bugatti..."

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

adrenalinerush6 wrote: post #3

sprremix wrote: post #2

It's dead here, all I see is "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"

try again, just had to update analytics code

Do you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®?

Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by SimplyUseless » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

Thinking of a drunk scenario, where I could end up setting bad alerts for me and eating a lot of green bananas; it would be wise to add a drunk check such as simple math sums.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by adrenalinerush6 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

click170 wrote: post #6

This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

currently up on port 8080, best i could do at work

http://52.4.212.135:8080/

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by smaili » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

Love the idea! Strongly recommend a domain name though :)

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by aheller » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

You should add email notifications too. I'm in Canada so my carrier isn't listed, but I want to know when to eat my bananas. Last time I was at the grocery store they only had extremely green bananas so now I'm playing the waiting game.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Post by kingzain » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

Missing the doctype. Some people who would like to use this site would be on some outdated browsers that would break without a doctype :(