The Status Page Status Page
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status monitoring
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How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful idea given how often official status pages are needed
From 3 comments
Hilarious name but also painfully necessary to those of us who have had to rely on official status pages. Thanks, /u/pmterry.
tomcam on HNGreat idea! Sad that these type of things need to exist.
TimLeland on HNI like the idea of an aggregated status page. How are you getting the 'Reported Status', are you scraping their status pages? I tried to build something similar a while ago, but…
davethedevguy on HN
Name is funny
From 1 comment
Hilarious name but also painfully necessary to those of us who have had to rely on official status pages. Thanks, /u/pmterry.
tomcam on HN
Objections
Scraping is fragile and may break ToS
From 2 comments
Exactly, it's just a very quick hack, and scraping and parsing is 'good enough'. Not pretty or long-term reliable, but it does the job. Very happy to take suggestions for other…
pimterry on HNNothing against scraping at all, I think that's probably the only real way to do this until more companies have a (free) status API.. assuming scraping is within the ToS of…
davethedevguy on HN
Requests
Add text labels to service icons
From 1 comment
I'll recommend adding text to the service icons on the left. I didn't recognize the bottom one and have no idea what service that was until I dipped into the HTML.
sparrish on HN
Link to the actual status pages
From 1 comment
Would be great to link to the actual status pages to read the firsthand reports, if any issues.
high_pathetic on HN
Add more services such as Azure, Office 365, Stack Overflow
From 2 comments
Nothing against scraping at all, I think that's probably the only real way to do this until more companies have a (free) status API.. assuming scraping is within the ToS of…
davethedevguy on HNExactly, it's just a very quick hack, and scraping and parsing is 'good enough'. Not pretty or long-term reliable, but it does the job. Very happy to take suggestions for other…
pimterry on HN
Questions
How is the reported status obtained, by scraping?
From 1 comment
I like the idea of an aggregated status page. How are you getting the 'Reported Status', are you scraping their status pages? I tried to build something similar a while ago, but…
davethedevguy on HN
Alternatives named
StatusGator
From 1 comment
You might be interested in a project of mine then: StatusGator is a status aggregator.
colinbartlett on HN