rozenmd

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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   Best for what? - Validating early ideas: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick - Very early sales (not a book, but): https://stripe.com/en-us/guides/atlas/starting-sales - Interviewing potential and current custome
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I don't. It's your website, you can unblock me.
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I replicate the service across several AWS regions, and Cloudflare Workers. At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other regions. I recently taught it to
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   For the last three years, I've been working on https://onlineornot.com It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams. In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've wor
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   On how I got my first ten customers(onlineornot.com)

   15 points by rozenmd 3y ago|1 comments
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   OnlineOrNot Diaries 19(maxrozen.com)

   1 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I use Postmark ( https://postmarkapp.com/ ) for transactional emails OnlineOrNot has an email-only auth option, and it was the only provider I found that could actually deliver emails in a second or so (rather than minutes)
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   Improving your on-call schedule with runbooks(onlineornot.com)

   1 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I helped make wrangler v2 - it's a CLI for interacting with Cloudflare's Developer Platform: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/blob/main/packages...
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    This is why folks need to monitor keywords on their website as well as HTTP status codes.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I started using Yaak after Insomnia and Postman both decided to become user-hostile, it's decent: https://yaak.app/ You'll never guess who makes it.
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    On sugar-surge marketing – OnlineOrNot Diaries 19(maxrozen.com)

    1 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    This works particularly well on the Internet, just say "okay"
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    There's still good advice in the book, but be aware it was published in 2016, with folks likely having started writing it around 2014. Both Google and SRE/DevOps have advanced greatly since then, and following the book blindly wou
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Don't bother, I've had mine in my footer for years now - have only had pleasant conversations as a result.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I could make that happen, yeah
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    True, I mainly monitor from everywhere as a means of dogfooding my own service (and just incase HN gets replicas)
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I've been keeping track, it goes down often (checking from US East, US West, Japan, Australia, and NL) https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ here's what it looks like on the monitoring side: https://x.com
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com Uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams. In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I&#x2
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    This might be a good time to point out Cloudflare Pages: https://pages.cloudflare.com/ Under the free tier: > Unlimited bandwidth
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    > these entities wish to have us comb through dozens of pages of legal agreements what a shame! make the "comb through legal agreements" plan 60k ACV?
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    The awesome thing about software is that you don't actually need a human there to supervise software checking a website five million times per week. I have built a self-healing system with observability in place to catch and page me wh
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Email mostly, Discord increasingly, sometimes Twitter.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I'm planning on keeping it as a "two hours before work" thing. I try to document everything, and I started a YouTube channel with support videos to keep the support load low. I'm happy with where things are, I have a ful
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Hah I actually love the name more and more as time goes on - I based it on the Australian-ism "Does it work or nah?"
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Nah, to be honest at that point I just wanted to go back to AWS so I could get back to shipping features my customers asked for
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    Lessons from my third year running a SaaS(maxrozen.com)

    89 points by rozenmd 3y ago|11 comments
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Cloudflare Workers?
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I keep a regular blog of what I learn as I build my lifestyle business, if you're interested: https://maxrozen.com/articles?q=diaries
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    > One payment of $49 for a landing page, and the user will have all benefits of whatever the paid plan will have - for life This will almost guarantee your product will have a cohort of users that will one-star-review you and do everythi