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Show HN: Hexadecimal – No-Nonsense Website Monitoring and Status Page Service(tryhexadecimal.com)
2 points by jmstfv 6y ago|1 comments
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by jmstfv 6y ago
> If I ever find a truly unsolved problem Why do you think you need to find a truly unsolved problem ? If all you want is a profitable, sustainable business, look at what companies are already paying for, and build a product that solves
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Building a notification system in Ruby on Rails(tryhexadecimal.com)
2 points by jmstfv 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmstfv 7y ago
> If you're launching a new product, how do you compete with products that have loads of features? One way to compete with incumbents, in the beginning, is by niching down, and offering things they can't. Using your tax softw
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by jmstfv 7y ago
> Meanwhile I can't even find one ideas. Here's the cheat code for you: look at what businesses are constantly spending money on, and you will find plenty of business ideas. There will be competition, most likely a lot of it,
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by jmstfv 7y ago
As someone who recently launched a SaaS business, I'd say your rate of learning increases dramatically after you launch a business, however successful it is. It's certainly helpful to learn about other's experiences, but no
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by jmstfv 7y ago
> I’m struggling to parse if there’s any unique offerings compared to statuspage.io. Is there anything I’m missing? statuspage.io relies on third-party services for monitoring, while Hexadecimal provides monitoring in-house. That way you
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by jmstfv 7y ago
> So, expand your horizons: look at the construction industry, the dentist industry, the fishing industry, the graveyard management industry, the gym pool management industry (these are not made up, by the way). > But let’s reiterate
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by jmstfv 7y ago
A couple of days ago, I launched a major feature for my website monitoring service ( https://tryhexadecimal.com ), and that is status pages. I have been meaning to do it for a long time since some customers were asking for it, and
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by jmstfv 7y ago
> and not solved already by dozens of other startups or even free software That used to deter me as well. My line of thinking was: if the problem X is already solved by N companies, why should I launch yet another competitor? Now that I&
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Basecamp has open-sourced their policies under CC BY 4.0, which means you can use those as long as you include the attribution: https://github.com/basecamp/policies When/if you reach a certain scale, it will make
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I run a SaaS where certificate expiration monitoring is one of the features. But that's more of a nice-to-have feature rather than a primary thing that brings in customers.
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I used to hoard bookmarks to never look at them again. It wasn't adding any tangible value to my life, so I got rid of that habit. What I'm doing now instead, is curating a set of links around some topics, and sharing them publicl
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Sharing strings between multiple notification channels in Rails(tryhexadecimal.com)
1 points by jmstfv 7y ago|0 comments
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Uploading files as a root user with Capistrano(tryhexadecimal.com)
1 points by jmstfv 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I used to hoard lots of bookmarks to never look at them again. It was a markdown file full of links, organized by a category, sometimes accompanied by a short comment. A never-ending backlog of articles, papers, videos, past live streams, b
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A Tale of Nomadic Strings(tryhexadecimal.com)
1 points by jmstfv 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmstfv 7y ago
In no particular order: 1/ More jobs will be automated. You can imagine what kind of scary implications that might entail. 2/ Remote work will become more popular, but not ubiquitous. 3/ The Balkanization of the Internet will
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by jmstfv 7y ago
When building a new website, I default to handwriting the HTML, instead of going with a static site generator. More pages lead to more duplication. I wrote a script that recursively goes through the directory, and replaces all occurrences o
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by jmstfv 7y ago
The biggest thing I have built this year is Hexadecimal ( https://tryhexadecimal.com ). It is my first SaaS business, so it is a pretty rough endeavor, both on the development and the business side. Built on the vanilla Rails stac
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I run a small, independent software company. First timer. > I estimate 2 weeks It is going to take longer than 2 weeks. And it is going be harder than you think. Building a product is only the beginning. You will have to write copy, find
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by jmstfv 7y ago
The more generalizable version of "vote with your wallet" is to stop using those services, if possible. Eventually, those companies will either stop engaging in this behaviour or die.
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by jmstfv 7y ago
It boils down to incentives. When entire business models are built around hijacking your attention and keeping you "hooked" for as long as possible, you can't expect calm technology . Vote with your wallet.
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I run a small software company, and I occasionally contribute to open source, mostly when a library is missing something that I want. To be sure that my work won't go unnoticed, I file the issue first and ask maintainers if they&#x27
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I was using Safari up until they have yanked support for extensions. The web is unusable, outright hostile place without a proper script blocker. I can tolerate a lot of things, but browsing the web without uBlockOrigin isn't one of th
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I have been using Firefox for several years now. Energy management is still an unsolved problem on MacOS (Firefox 71 on 10.14.6). They have been making improvements in the last several releases, but "Avg Energy Impact" remains aro
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Another insidious exploit is to hijack the maintainer's package manager account and push the code directly there, bypassing the repository altogether. It doesn't rely on you installing a new package since the hijacked package in q
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by jmstfv 7y ago
That's really interesting, it never occurred to me before (because I've never seen such thing), but it makes sense. A lot of work happens in the background, and folks don't see the value until their website is down or their c
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Background workers are geographically spread out across multiple AWS regions: https://tryhexadecimal.com/docs/workers#locations It is highly unlikely that all of them will be knocked down at the same time. If workers
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Jobs (e.g. uptime checks, payment processing, sending emails) are added to the job queue (Redis) and background workers pick it up from there, and churn through them asynchronously. Most of the work happens in the background, so in my case,

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