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Show HN: Bananalert
- ukandy 11y agoHere I am developing a BLE ethylene monitoring device. Arg, your implementation is so simple. My kickstarter is doomed to failure.
- sprremix 11y agoIt's dead here, all I see is "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"
- adrenalinerush6 11y agotry again, just had to update analytics code
- lucb1e 11y agoDo you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®? Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/
- schneidmaster 11y agoYep, you're feeding information right into Google's greedy hands about when your bananas are ripe.
- gutnor 11y agoYou joke, but seeing Amazon lately, that seems like the kind of things they would like to know.
- Practicality 11y agoI prefer to keep my bananas out in the open, it's better security when everyone knows about my bananas.
- anc84 11y agoI guess Bananalytics.
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- adrenalinerush6 11y agoIf you choose a color of brown, but a preference of greener, you'll get the notification right away ;)
- chrissnell 11y agoYou need a 226262 short code. Text a photo of your banana to BANANA and we'll send you back a text when it's ready to eat!
- adrenalinerush6 11y agoGood idea! except i feel like there might be some bananas that get sent in that weren't grown on a tree, jah feel?
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- click170 11y agoThis appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?
- jewel 11y agoHere's a screenshot for those behind corporate firewalls: http://i.imgur.com/pwSaDY4.png http://i.imgur.com/pwSaDY4.png
- rplnt 11y agoHaving a domain name would help too.
- JonnieCache 11y agoThe IP address makes it funnier for some reason.
- lucb1e 11y agoYeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally). So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random site in XHR).
- freehunter 11y agoIf you're studying security and you think TOR will work to get you past corporate firewalls... good luck out there. Keep studying.
- glass- 11y agoTor with a bridge on port 443 (or even 80) will get past anything that only blocks non-standard ports.
- artursapek 11y agoWhat's your exit strategy?
- stevelaz 11y agoI'd pay 2 bananas for this app
- jamieomatthews 11y ago2 very green bananas
- robotnoises 11y agoProbably something along the lines of "I'll drive away from the building in my new Bugatti..."
- dcuthbertson 11y agoTo peel out, I'd say.
- bttf 11y agoReally could use a checkbox for the 'Bag and Apple' users out there. Faster ripening times but still could use a reminder.
- djrogers 11y agoYup - ripening in a mixed fruit bowl, hanging on a banana hanger, or in a bag with ethylene producing fruit (like an apple) will dramatically impact the timing - several days difference...
- anc84 11y agoAdd photo interpretation (heck, do it manually at first as MVP) and you might get quite a few "colorblind" users. Fruit ripeness is a huge problem for many and bananas are usually the example.
- ollybee 11y agoI would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.
- SoftwareMaven 11y agoI thought the same thing. I love avacodos, but I've given up purchasing them because I'm so bad at finding the millisecond they are ready to eat before they turn to mush.
- Nogwater 11y agoI've started buying them when they're very hard (Costco sells them by the bag) and then waiting for them to ripen at home. This keeps them from getting bruised by other shoppers. So far, I've had good luck with them being ripe and good for about 3 days.
- nathanaldensr 11y agoYes, this is absolutely the secret to awesome avocados. Buy the unripe ones--the ones shoppers aren't squeezing to death--and let them ripen over a few days. Then, a few days before you run out, go grab the next batch.
- ChoGGi 11y agoAdding more agreement to this, grab them hard and green then store in a dark (room temp) place. 4-5 days and should be good to go
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- jerf 11y agoAlso, Step 1: Select Your Avocado's Color! ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green would cause some user experience issues.
- SimplyUseless 11y agoThinking of a drunk scenario, where I could end up setting bad alerts for me and eating a lot of green bananas; it would be wise to add a drunk check such as simple math sums.
- smaili 11y agoLove the idea! Strongly recommend a domain name though :)
- aheller 11y agoYou should add email notifications too. I'm in Canada so my carrier isn't listed, but I want to know when to eat my bananas. Last time I was at the grocery store they only had extremely green bananas so now I'm playing the waiting game.
- kingzain 11y agoMissing the doctype. Some people who would like to use this site would be on some outdated browsers that would break without a doctype :(
- Practicality 11y agovar bananalife = 5 * 24; Bananas live 5 days?
- adrenalinerush6 11y agobased on a google search. this is more of a joke project than anything lol
- sparrish 11y agoAdd an 'upload a photo' option to automatically set the current banana color. And then I'll have a photo history of all the bananas I've ever eaten as well!
- freehunter 11y agoAlltel? Do they even exist anymore?
- JonnieCache 11y agoWhat's missing here is that old animated gif of the dancing banana.
- sbilstein 11y agoVery Big Dada of you, wonderful. Thanks.
- volent 11y agoHere is the github repo : https://github.com/singerbj/bananalert https://github.com/singerbj/bananalert
- adrenalinerush6 11y agonoooo dont look at the code its really crappyyyyy
- mattdeboard 11y agoWhere's the kickstarter
- SimplyUseless 11y agoHey! I got it! You build it to get ads from "Despicable Me".
- dignick 11y agoI won't be happy until the banana can wirelessly notify my Apple Watch that it is now ripe.
- nsxwolf 11y agoI would not be surprised at all if the little Chaquita stickers will someday contain chemical sensors and a mote computer, and will do just that.
- bliti 11y agoNice! I went bananas when I saw the page. Started to monkey around with the settings. And I went baboom when I saw that it would text me. /* Engage HN filter / How do you plan to monetize this? This is clearly ripe for disrupting the fuits/supermarket economy. Like an Uber but for fruits. I think you should email, tweet, instagram, like, share, deck and meet Paul Graham in order to get into Y combinator. This will be bigger than AirBnB. Ryan from Product Hunt will be contacting you in shortly! / Filter off */
- t_fatus 11y agoThis could be of so much help when MarsOne guys stranded on Mars will need to know if they can eat their bananas! For once there will be some science in their project.
- blueblob 11y agoYou're missing green/brown which is what half of the bananas at my grocery store are.
- robogimp 11y agoThe hospital here does a roaring trade in distressed looking bananas with random grey skuff marks...
- sp332 11y agoSince HTTP is deprecated, and you can't get TLS certificates for IP addresses, that means pages hosted like this will be at a disadvantage from now on right?
- michaelsitver 11y agoAbsolutely brilliant. Now you just need to release this for every fruit. Appleapp. PineapplePulse. Instant billion dollar unicorn company.
- bigredtech 11y agoIncludes http://assets.absolutdrinks.com/api/addb-0.5.2.js http://assets.absolutdrinks.com/api/addb-0.5.2.js From Absolut Drinks in the source. And it's collecting phone numbers? ... Not sure this is the purest of intentions. Not sure it's not though. [Edit - Looks legit and unaffiliated :) ]
- thrillgore 11y agoNope. No. No no no no no. I don't know what the hell you want with my number.
- AustinScript 11y ago"Error, please check all parts of the form are filled" - didn't work on iOS mobile. My alerts! NOooooooooooooooooo!!
- adrenalinerush6 11y agoPublic VM crashed, no different ip. RIP Bananalert...
- jameshk 11y agoHey! I'd be willing to host Bananalert for free on AWS, as I have lots of credits!