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Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors
- m88m 6y agoloved the design + title :)
- Akcium 6y agoHaha thank you, I was thinking about the title because there are so many posts on HN :) Still plenty of things I want to improve and develop. Really, is it me so slow, or it really takes so much time! At first I thought that "hey, make a request to a site isn't that hard, is it?" but I don't like about 800 hours developing this...
- hosker4u 6y agoYou did. Any USP to shout about?
- Akcium 6y agoI'll be honest, more or less I have the same functions as others. Could't find something really unique. Except, maybe, SIGNL4 integration. In plans: - Customize everything as much as I can. Like you'll decide which messages/texts to show in notifications and how the status pages should look - Badges you can put on your site, like "I have 99.99% uptime". Haven't seen this - Some folks asked for CSV reports of uptime/response time, will add it as well - Performance monitoring & analysis But yes, I know, it's in plans so right now not that much to shout about =\
- juoemeka 6y agoCongratulations
- Akcium 6y agoThank you!
- m4k 6y agoCongratulations, how is the response?
- Akcium 6y agoNot much :( Didn't get much attention, but anyways Thank you! :)
- husseiny 6y agoCongrats again, saw you on PH first. I plan on using your service once we launch in a few weeks because Pingdom doesn't need more users. Would rather help someone starting out (as long as you are monitoring your own site ha!)
- Akcium 6y agothank you ! :)
- marel337 6y agoPlease tell us more how and where you spent the 800 hours. What mistakes did you make, what would you do differently. Otherwise, great looking front page!
- Akcium 6y agoI had a draft article for that, also I've posted an article about how therapy helped me to keep up. But it didn't get much traction :( However I'll post about it too, where and how I worked, even with photos!
- ialexpw 6y agoReally like the website info/design, saw it posted somewhere a few days ago and was going to sign up. Only thing that stopped me (and maybe others?) was the price. $10 for 2 URLs is quite high when comparing to other uptime monitoring services that have been around a lot longer, most likely would have signed up if the URLs were a bit higher or the price was a tad lower ($5-6). Otherwise looks nice all around though. :-)
- Akcium 6y agoYeah, I think this is what stops everyone. You know why I put this price? Because I saw a competitor (successful competitor) who has 30$ for 15 monitors. I think I'd increase monitors number, since it's better to have less paying customers for higher price. Indeed Thank you!!