My weekend project
Infrastructure
cron job monitoring
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Pricing: 3 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Plan names are funny, especially the top NSA plan
From 1 comment
I really liked the plan names especially the top plan, NSA (Monitor Everything). Got a good laugh out of it. :)
eam on HN
Free plan is useful
From 1 comment
Good to have the "one is always free" plan, will give it a try.
tyrionaura on HN
Useful service for cron failure detection
From 1 comment
Writing a fail-safe cron is an incredibly hard job as crons are infamous for failing rather silently. The cron script writer must take a very pessimist approach and handle every…
vijayaggarwal on HN
Objections
Pricing is too high for individual users
From 2 comments
Awesome idea but the price outweighs the pain factor, for me.
acron0 on HNI agree with you. It's cool, but not 7$ / month, or 20$ /month cool.
__xtrimsky on HN
Weekend project label is doubtful
From 1 comment
I really doubt this is just a weekend project. I am sorry but titles like this has been getting on my nerves.
yansuck on HN
Curl calls chained with && could block cron jobs if monitoring fails
From 1 comment
Neat little service! I'd be careful about &&'ing commands together (as in the timing example) should one of the pre-command curl calls fail. It would be a serious kick in the…
cheeken on HN
Requests
Self-hosted or open source version
From 1 comment
Any chance of selling a version I can host myself? Or, even better, making it open source? Congrats on shipping tho!
crazyiiiiii on HN
Lower prices
From 2 comments
I agree with you. It's cool, but not 7$ / month, or 20$ /month cool.
__xtrimsky on HNThe prices seem really reasonable and a steal if I was still in an enterprise environment. I'm not maintaining any prod servers right now, but $4.99 would be a sweet spot if I…
barce on HN
Questions
Would a self-hosted version be offered
From 1 comment
Any chance of selling a version I can host myself? Or, even better, making it open source? Congrats on shipping tho!
crazyiiiiii on HN
Alternatives named
Dead Man's Snitch
From 2 comments
You were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com ?
js2 on HNI've gotta hand it to https://deadmanssnitch.com. Free referrals! :)
spncr2 on HN
Proby
From 1 comment
There are others, like Proby (which I mentioned here [1]), yet I find that having more competitors in that space would be helpful, because not everyone has exactly the same…
thibaut_barrere on HN