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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
#22I'd suggest your homepage mention a few use cases (like the ones you described above). My first thought when I clicked the link was "What would I ever use this for?".
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#23A service in a very similar vein is https://healthchecks.io/ - which also provides a nice perspective on how low-effort the setup for a service with a substantial amount of users can be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488910 The blog also contains a bunch of useful information and guides around the topic, including various unusual configurations (arduino/esp8266) as well as information on self-hosting.
I've used healthchecks.io for years (and Laravel eco system has some heartbeat checks built into their system), I'm curious how Peeng differs?
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#24I'd suggest your homepage mention a few use cases (like the ones you described above). My first thought when I clicked the link was "What would I ever use this for?".
Thanks @jedberg. I’ll add a few examples to the front page.
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#25So you are basically making a dead man's switch, it seems [0]. However, why should I send requests to you rather than you pinging me? It saves on your server costs, sure, but it can be more of a hassle for me as the developer when I just want to know if my service is up.
And definitely change your name, the first thing I though of was pee or peeing, not a good connection to have in people's minds.
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#26Sounds like https://deadmanssnitch.com with a bigger free plan, or is there a fundamental difference?
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#27I like your product but your pricing per endpoint is not what I would choose:
10 endpoints - $1 per endpoint per month
20 endpoints - $1.5 per endpoint per month
30 endpoints - $1.33 per endpoint per month
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#28I like your product but your pricing per endpoint is not what I would choose: 10 endpoints - $1 per endpoint per month 20 endpoints - $1.5 per endpoint per month 30 endpoints - $1.33 per endpoint per month
Nice catch, we are going to change that!
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#29How does Peeng differentiate between 'pings' from different services coming from the same IP? Payload? For example, if I wanted to use this for an appserver and db server and both have a NAT gw as the source, would I need to separate Peeng domains or can Peeng operate on the payload?
Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
#30So you are basically making a dead man's switch, it seems [0]. However, why should I send requests to you rather than you pinging me? It saves on your server costs, sure, but it can be more of a hassle for me as the developer when I just want to know if my service is up. And definitely change your name, the first thing I though of was pee or peeing, not a good connection to have in people's minds. [0] https://en.wiki…
There's a great service already existing with a riff on that name, even - https://deadmanssnitch.com/
DMS is useful for stuff like crons where you're trying to monitor an event that happened rather than whether a service is online. No way to ping a cronjob from the outside world, but the cron can report that it ran successfully