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Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by bitbasher »

pyfon wrote: post #34
bitbasher wrote: post #4

First and foremost, I love a good side hustle. With that being said, I find these kinds notifications to provide more false positives than correctly detecting downtime. That ends up costing more time checking/double checking. On the other hand, if you are running a service with no users and you have downtime... did you really have downtime? If you run a service and you have downtime and no one reports it, did you hav…

Oof! I'd rather be half way through fixing the problem while the customer first discovers it. Unless you have 1 customer who lives in the same time zone or something. I'd understand not wanring to be being woken up from a page for a small operation though.

In my experience, most customers are amazed you even respond to their email. If you fix a bug or issue within 24 hours they are amazed.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by SantiagoVargas »

RandomUser4976 wrote: post #27
SantiagoVargas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there thanks for purchasing! Currently we have it set to just one endpoint per account (MVP Launch) but let me add support for more today. How many endpoints are you looking to monitor?

Adding one more for a total of two.

Hi - just sent you an email!

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by replwoacause »

RandomUser4976 wrote: post #21

My young child has Type 1 diabetes. I need to know when the server that receives glucose readings from his CGM on his body goes down. It’s a huge help to prevent emergencies and death when I know when his blood glucose is low AND when there’s no new blood glucose readings. I’m going to try this service. Thank you for sharing!

This seems like too important a job to entrust to this upstart service. What would happen if this fails to alert you?

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by abcd_f »

SantiagoVargas wrote: post #2

Built YourServerIsDown.com as a side project that we needed for our startup... anyone else have the issue of not finding out quickly enough if your server went down? For our app it's super important as if our server goes down, users can download the app but get stuck at the sign in flow. There's subscription services out there that do more in-depth monitoring but this is all we needed. I listed an alternative solutio…

As much as I appreciate the attitude of building something from scratch instead of exploring existing solutions, the uptime/server monitoring is a super-saturated market and it's been like that since the 00s if not earlier.

That is, it will be really hard for you to find customers.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by SantiagoVargas »

bitbasher wrote: post #41
pyfon wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof! I'd rather be half way through fixing the problem while the customer first discovers it. Unless you have 1 customer who lives in the same time zone or something. I'd understand not wanring to be being woken up from a page for a small operation though.

In my experience, most customers are amazed you even respond to their email. If you fix a bug or issue within 24 hours they are amazed.

Very true - our goal is to help companies keep their customers amazed. Especially when starting out with early adopters. Though perhaps not something that can scale as easily.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by SantiagoVargas »

sam_goody wrote: post #40

I use uptimekuma (self hosted) and am very happy - it can text, or just about anything else - as long as you set it up. Also Tianji[1], self-hosted in the same space. Of course, these require setup and have to be hosted somewhere. Either another server or deployed to Heroku (Sealos, Render, etc), since they obviously cannot be deployed on the server you wish to monitor! [1]: https://tianji.msgbyte.com/

I've heard a lot of good things - seems like the standard for those that don't mind self hosting and managing the alerts. Our goal with this product is to make sms monitoring easily accessible and hands-free (especially for teams/devs that want to focus on the product/marketing and move quickly). Thanks for sharing these resources.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

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Post by SantiagoVargas »

abcd_f wrote: post #44
SantiagoVargas wrote: post #2

Built YourServerIsDown.com as a side project that we needed for our startup... anyone else have the issue of not finding out quickly enough if your server went down? For our app it's super important as if our server goes down, users can download the app but get stuck at the sign in flow. There's subscription services out there that do more in-depth monitoring but this is all we needed. I listed an alternative solutio…

As much as I appreciate the attitude of building something from scratch instead of exploring existing solutions, the uptime/server monitoring is a super -saturated market and it's been like that since the 00s if not earlier. That is, it will be really hard for you to find customers.

Completely agree - was surprised myself with the response we've received. Saturated market but the 10x cheaper/easier to set up seems to be resonating with other 1-3 person teams. Don't plan on bringing it to the enterprise-level though.
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