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This is awesome but what is the motivation behind this? Why do you care to set up a server and pay for the (minimal) bandwidth that is needed for this service?

This is awesome but what is the motivation behind this? Why do you care to set up a server and pay for the (minimal) bandwidth that is needed for this service? Is this purely an act of goodwill? Do you hope that this will gain traction so that you can start charging for the service? Are you secretly harvesting clusters of IP addresses of HN readers?

vruiz 12y ago
Good question! 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 it was both. Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 tiny servers for different activities and this only uses 2 of the with minimal resources (it's just ping). It will just sit there alerting me and some others when something goes down.
- deathhand 12y ago
  Thanks! "Trust" on the internet is never a thing and I have been growing suspicious of it more everyday. Way back when you could almost trust your DCC on IRC but lucrativeness involved with the 'unwashed masses' in using the internet make this horrible problem for a technologist exploring new things.
- geerlingguy 12y ago
  +1 to this. I've set up a few services of a similar nature, and a couple were worth enough to me to go to a further length and monetize, but only insofar as it paid my server bills and added a little on top for taxes and such. It feels great to hack on something like this, and not worry about billing integration and supporting paid customers at first.
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- moduloo 12y ago
  http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html
  - vruiz 12y ago
    good tip. thank you. sorry I removed the parent while you were posting, just realized I was answering to the wrong message.

vruiz 12y ago

Good question! 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 it was both. Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 tiny servers for different activities and this only uses 2 of the with minimal resources (it's just ping). It will just sit there alerting me and some others when something goes down.

deathhand 12y ago
Thanks! "Trust" on the internet is never a thing and I have been growing suspicious of it more everyday. Way back when you could almost trust your DCC on IRC but lucrativeness involved with the 'unwashed masses' in using the internet make this horrible problem for a technologist exploring new things.
geerlingguy 12y ago
+1 to this. I've set up a few services of a similar nature, and a couple were worth enough to me to go to a further length and monetize, but only insofar as it paid my server bills and added a little on top for taxes and such. It feels great to hack on something like this, and not worry about billing integration and supporting paid customers at first.

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moduloo 12y ago
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html
- vruiz 12y ago
  good tip. thank you. sorry I removed the parent while you were posting, just realized I was answering to the wrong message.