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Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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I understand if the full app experience doesn’t work on mobile, but at least consider allowing mobile visitors to view the landing page. I’d love to check it out, but am on mobile and get a full screen “not supported” banner. Edit: or maybe redirect mobile visitors from peeng.sh to your .dev site.

Hey! I've just removed the restriction on "/" for mobiles, can you refresh? (maybe incognito until cache is refreshed or something)

FYI: Menu button doesn’t work for me on iOS.

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#12
Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.)

The blurb on the site was difficult for me to parse, mentally. It's wordy and awkward with the negative in there:

> Receive an HTTP request whenever your heartbeat endpoint is not pinged for a configured interval of your choice.

"Get POSTed when your endpoint stops receiving a ping." is where I got to after reading your description here, but it's sorta unclear what "your endpoint" means (it's ambiguous, is it my site's endpoint? or my "peeng endpoint"?)

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#13

Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.) The blurb on the site was difficult for me to parse, mentally. It's wordy and awkward with the negative in there: > Receive an HTTP request whenever your heartbeat endpoint is not pinged for a configured interval of your choice. "Get POSTed when your endpoint stops…

It's your configured endpoint that gets POSTed when your Peeng subdomain stops receiving pings.

Anyway, gotcha, we'll do some work on the text there! Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#14

I don’t currently need something like this, but I like the simplicity and it seems handy. Tech aside, I’m compelled to say that I don’t like the name. It is one letter off from a bodily function, and the pronunciation is even closer. Edit: the menu button on the landing page doesn’t work for me on iOS.

seconded; calling it "pee-ng" will limit adoption

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#15
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! I've just removed the restriction on "/" for mobiles, can you refresh? (maybe incognito until cache is refreshed or something)

FYI: Menu button doesn’t work for me on iOS.

Those are the compatibility issues we had and the reason we decided to put a mobile redirect on -- working to fix this ASAP!

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#16
I been looking for a reverse of pingdom and this post has caught my eye but not sure if it does what I need.

I'm looking specifically for a ping/heartbeat service to observe our long-running process scripts, where I will make an HTTP request to it every x interval so I know that the background script is still alive.

Does anyone know of which?

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#17
the name suffix suggests that it is implemented as a shell script.

the homepage does not convey any information about this script or anything else like setup instructions.

if i click on the github links in the top row i see a codebase that is supposedly for the server side.

i would like to know more but you're not making it easy.

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#18

I been looking for a reverse of pingdom and this post has caught my eye but not sure if it does what I need. I'm looking specifically for a ping/heartbeat service to observe our long-running process scripts, where I will make an HTTP request to it every x interval so I know that the background script is still alive. Does anyone know of which?

Hey jaequery, Peeng is the solution for you! happy to further help you set it up, join our Slack at https://slack.keephq.dev and I'll shoot you a message

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#19
post #17

the name suffix suggests that it is implemented as a shell script. the homepage does not convey any information about this script or anything else like setup instructions. if i click on the github links in the top row i see a codebase that is supposedly for the server side. i would like to know more but you're not making it easy.

we liked the .sh domain but perhaps it wasn't the best choice. signing in and creating a subdomain gives a full list of examples: https://snipboard.io/l2TU1c.jpg

let me know if I can help anyhow

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

#20
post #17

the name suffix suggests that it is implemented as a shell script. the homepage does not convey any information about this script or anything else like setup instructions. if i click on the github links in the top row i see a codebase that is supposedly for the server side. i would like to know more but you're not making it easy.

re the GitHub repo: it's just a reference to our OSS project "Keep", not the BE of Peeng. sry for the confusion
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