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

Post by rShergold » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 6:55 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

talboren wrote: post #13

postmortembees wrote: post #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…

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!

Post by jw1224 » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

rShergold wrote: post #41

This seems like a neat little service. Just a heads up. Here in the UK Peng is slang for sexually attractive.

Post by talboren » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

jw1224 wrote: post #45

rShergold wrote: post #41

This seems like a neat little service. Just a heads up. Here in the UK Peng is slang for sexually attractive.

Whilst it can be used that way, peng more broadly means something is generally attractive / appealing / impressive. It doesn’t necessarily have sexual connotations.

Post by vram22 » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

talboren wrote: post #47

jw1224 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whilst it can be used that way, peng more broadly means something is generally attractive / appealing / impressive. It doesn’t necessarily have sexual connotations.

wdyt about gnip (reversed ping) as an alternative to peeng?