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I think most of us with pet projects do it either to learn something or with the hopes of gaining a lot of traction and one day implement some paid feature. For me…",{"id":56,"by":10,"text":57},"8775062","Indeed there are plans in my head. But that could only happen if I manage to get a big user base while at the same time I find a way to fight abuse without compromising simplicity.",{"value":59,"source":50,"evidence":60},"Hobbyists monitoring pet projects and personal servers",[61,64],{"id":62,"by":10,"text":63},"8774376","Thanks! No intention to compete, as it says on the page it's not meant for professional purposes (of course, success might change that). It's mostly a pet project to monitor pet…",{"id":53,"by":10,"text":54},{"value":66,"source":50,"evidence":67},"Free, no SLA; paid accounts considered for the future",[68,69],{"id":53,"by":10,"text":54},{"id":70,"by":10,"text":71},"8776651","I've never been block by just pinging anything, but if that happens for someone, well... it'll simply won't work for that user. No big deal, that's the upside of being a free…",{"value":73,"source":50,"evidence":74},"Pet project to monitor own servers, learning, and possible future paid features",[75,76],{"id":53,"by":10,"text":54},{"id":62,"by":10,"text":63},[78],{"value":79,"source":50,"evidence":80},"Go",[81],{"id":82,"by":10,"text":83},"8774395","btw, the ping engine is a Go app that pings each hosts in a separate goroutine. I might open source it in the future once the code has more tests and less shame.","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":88,"objections":115,"requests":141,"questions":171,"alternatives":191},[89,104],{"value":90,"source":91,"evidence":92},"Simple, low barrier to entry signup via one HTTP GET","commenter",[93,97,101],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"8776076","hcarvalhoalves","I like the fact your signup boils down to one HTTP GET and a verification email. That's some revolutionary stuff.",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"8774795","tux","Very nice. I wish more services would be as simple as thigs ^_^",{"id":102,"by":10,"text":103},"8774817","thanks. Indeed the service totally lacks features and maybe reliability, but my whole intention was to find the lowest possible barrier of entry, which I too find very high in…",{"value":105,"source":91,"evidence":106},"Useful and easy to set up",[107,111],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"8775238","mashlol","This is very useful, thanks for hosting it. Awesome website too, and super easy to set up.",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"8775340","Procrastes","I love this kind of tool, simple and useful. Extra points for leading with a commandline example.",[116,127,134],{"value":117,"source":91,"evidence":118},"Pinging every 5 seconds may get blocked and burden the network",[119,123],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"8776505","ivanhoe","Maybe you should slow down the ping interval a bit, because there is no authentication and someone might run it on a big number of IPs of the same network class, and that will…",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"8776626","fuzzfree","Checking every 5 seconds...! You will probably get blocked by a firewall.... Every 5 minutes is more than fine for a free service (and do future upgrades for every 1 min or…",{"value":128,"source":91,"evidence":129},"Anyone who knows a confirmed email can add alerts to it",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"8776746","Kliment","Does this mean if I set up an alert for a server anyone can then add me to any number of alerts without further confirmation?",{"value":135,"source":91,"evidence":136},"Alert emails have broken localhost links",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"8783726","Injunire","The links in your sent emails appear to be broken. All URL's to deactivate and pause alerts are pointing to localhost.",[142,157,164],{"value":143,"source":91,"evidence":144},"Open source the code",[145,149,153],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"8776323","mdewinter","I would also like to see it open. I'd love to host something like this for my own networks which are not internet reachable.",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"8775810","kbar13","Who cares just open source it. People who are interested might even send you some pull requests",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"8775493","rafaqueque","Congrats on shipping! I wrote a software like this, tried to ship it but I failed. Now it's open-source for everyone. If you're interested, grab it.…",{"value":158,"source":91,"evidence":159},"Add HTTP checks",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"8774423","mcklaw","How to remove alerts? BTW, +1 to HTTP support, a must-have.",{"value":165,"source":91,"evidence":166},"Paid plans",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"8775300","encoderer","Congrats on shipping. I run a very different kind of monitoring service (alerts when your cron jobs and other scheduled tasks don't run or take too long, see my profile for…",[172,184],{"value":173,"source":91,"evidence":174},"How to stop or remove alerts",[175,176,180],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"8775696","motyar","How to stop?",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"8776337","walrus","There's a 'remove alert' link in the activation email.",{"value":185,"source":91,"evidence":186},"Why not blacklist local IP ranges",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"8777816","nacs","Why not just blacklist local-only IP ranges?",[192,203,210],{"value":193,"source":91,"evidence":194},"Pingdom",[195,199],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"8774358","nodesocket","Nice job for releasing this. However, seems hard to compete with pingdom, who have exponentially more features and integrations and are relatively inexpensive. Kuddos on shipping!",{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"8774580","toomuchtodo","> seems hard to compete with pingdom As a DevOps, I'd like to disagree with this. Pingdom previously was a joy to work with. Now that they're attempting to bring in PagerDuty-esq…",{"value":204,"source":91,"evidence":205},"Webmon",[206],{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"8774678","halayli","I created https:\u002F\u002Fwebmon.com . I'd love to hear your feedback on it since you were a Pingdom customer.",{"value":211,"source":91,"evidence":212},"Monitority",[213],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"8779276","d12b","In come... http:\u002F\u002Fmonitority.com published on betalist, free +sms and email",{"comments":218,"answered":219,"key":220},19,6,[221,224,225],{"id":222,"text":223},"8775341","Thanks. This project for me is just a proof of concept. 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