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by moomerman 15y ago
I just tried the SCSS trick but the generated CSS was: background: lime url(asset_path "rails.png") no-repeat fixed center;
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by moomerman 15y ago
Thanks for the info, I'll update the post shortly. Out of interest, what was wrong with the FB comments? I only started using it yesterday because disqus doesn't have a HTTPS option (that I could find anyway).
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by moomerman 16y ago
I spent Friday afternoon and a bit of Saturday hacking this together and am wondering if anyone else finds it useful / has any ideas where to take it from here. For those interested, it is using Heroku for hosting (obviously), Sinatra, Mong
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Show HN: Zen Text - Beautifully simple text authoring(zentext.heroku.com)
3 points by moomerman 16y ago|2 comments
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Get Charlie Sheen placeholder images for your designs(sheenholders.com)
2 points by moomerman 16y ago|1 comments
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by moomerman 16y ago
I should be able to make it
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by moomerman 16y ago
I tend to use a slicehost slice to do my own outbound mail (I use Google Apps for all inbound). Assuming you have a slice first you'll need to set up your DNS entry pointing to the slice and a reverse DNS entry in the slicehost manager. Se
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by moomerman 16y ago
Please don't send my password in plain text via email
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Vanity - Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails(vanity.labnotes.org)
1 points by moomerman 17y ago|0 comments
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by moomerman 17y ago
You make a good point and I've thought about that a lot but competitive sites offer free accounts so it would be hard for me not to have a similar option.
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. It is useful to hear real-life requirements and I'll bear this in mind when thinking about pricing options. I must admit though the number of options on site24x7 is a bit off-putting to me, I was thinking
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks for the great feedback, it's always good to hear! I'll add DNS monitoring to the list.
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by moomerman 17y ago
Yeah, nimbu.net does do what you're asking for and it will always be free for one site. You will get notifications by email and/or SMS and/or twitter within minutes of your site going down. The SMS option won't always be free, but you can
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by moomerman 17y ago
I'm working on http://nimbu.net/ at the moment that does what you're looking for. I've just added twitter alerts too if you use twitter. If you've got anything specific you would want to monitor then please let me know.
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks for your comments. I am working on the payment system now, I decided to launch the product early and gather some feedback while I'm doing that though. At the moment you can only monitor up to three sites. The content validation ide
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks for the comment. There is no installation required so I'm not sure what you mean. You can try the site functionality for free so that would work as a demo. If you mean you don't want to sign up, then would a screencast work in tha
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks for the comments, I will fix the bugs asap. On the redirect issue, do you think that receiving a redirect on a url you are monitoring should result in success? I hadn't thought about that before, maybe it should be an advanced opti
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by moomerman 17y ago
That is a very interesting use case. I was thinking about allowing users to create scriptable tests and then provide reporting around that, I think it could meet your requirements. I will add the basic authentication stuff.
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by moomerman 17y ago
You can remove a site by clicking the detail link (the link from the dashboard) and then there is a delete link in the top right hand corner. I will work on making this more obvious.
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by moomerman 17y ago
Cool - I will make it clearer. I actually have the server-side monitoring in development, but I'm trying to focus on this one product for now.
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks, will do. The servers are currently in Florida, California and London. I will be adding more soon hopefully. I will create a Help/Info section detailing where the servers are and more details about how often they poll/what their u
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by moomerman 17y ago
You're absolutely correct. I 'borrowed' the t&c's from somewhere else and I would never enforce this. In fact the testimonials I have on the homepage I have written to the individuals in question to ask for their permission. Am remov
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by moomerman 17y ago
This is a competitive product I guess. I have used pingdom for years and most of the development of this product has been to satisfy me as a developer and what I want out of a monitoring product. I always found the interface of pingdom to
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by moomerman 17y ago
Will definitely add a features list then, I was thinking I was already overloading the user a bit on the homepage but having a separate link to a detailed features section means those that want more information can get it.
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by moomerman 17y ago
I've changed the link to just Signup for now as the pricing isn't an issue
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by moomerman 17y ago
Thanks, I take your point about the pricing, will separate them for now. My aim is to provide more data analysis than other monitoring sites and give you feedback on the performance of your web application.
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by moomerman 17y ago
It has been interesting reading the recent getting users thread [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902322 ] as I've been trying a lot of the methods on there to gain some traction, so far without much success. Any other tips?
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Review my startup: http://nimbu.net/ - smart website monitoring
10 points by moomerman 17y ago|31 comments
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Sending email in the cloud(blog.nimbu.net)
1 points by moomerman 17y ago|0 comments
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by moomerman 17y ago
Hey, we both seem to have the same values in simplicity as I've just launched an alpha of http://nimbu.net/ (dead simple website monitoring) - I like your easy signup process

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