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by varlogix 5y ago
Spike.sh - https://spike.sh I may be biased as a co-founder of Spike.sh, but I think we have one of the best designed incident management products out there. We've focused on making it easy to create on-call schedule and ov
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by varlogix 5y ago
SRE is one of the hottest roles in startups and enterprises right now. But the job responsibilities and scope can change from company to company. We wanted to see what were the top expectations in the SRE role, so we analyzed 30 job posting
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What does SRE do? We analyzed 30 job postings from Google, Airbnb and more(spike.sh)
3 points by varlogix 5y ago|1 comments
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by varlogix 6y ago
"It looks like this service does require password for sign-up and login right now unless you use google auth?" We have implemented magic link in our new product, also as a way to trying out the tech and understanding user feedback
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Why we went passwordless on our new product(spike.sh)
36 points by varlogix 6y ago|74 comments
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by varlogix 6y ago
we keep looking for ways to recreate the fun atmosphere of an office hangout or party. this looks interesting. and i agree with another comment - you should add more context to the website about how the games will look/play like in sla
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by varlogix 6y ago
I think Laravel framework for PHP has something called Spark which provides this. https://spark.laravel.com/
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by varlogix 6y ago
Love the simplicity of spike! I've used other products like PagerDuty and OpsGenie and was overwhelmed by the complicated interface.
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by varlogix 6y ago
I agree to some extent. Unless you can filter the feedback based on the level of the user (plan, MRR from account, user engagement), it can result in some lower importance features being built. Also, making the roadmap public reduces the pr
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by varlogix 6y ago
Crazy stuff! And really like the blow-by-blow account.
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by varlogix 6y ago
Love the "early internet" feel of it, and of course the speed. The domain name could be improved, considering that it will be part of every hosted blog. Something more concise, or rolls off the tongue easier.
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by varlogix 8y ago
Sorry about that - this should not happen. Ideally, you should see data in under a minute. Do reach out to me on support [at] my product's domain if you still see this.
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by varlogix 8y ago
Thanks! I have thought about it, will consider this.
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by varlogix 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. I am a pretty big Apple user (mac/iphone/ipad), but their audacity (shamelessness?) with the recent pricing is breathtaking. They will probably fix the audio issue and use the opportunity to charge $500 m
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by varlogix 8y ago
Oh! Let me check this.
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by varlogix 8y ago
Thanks!
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by varlogix 8y ago
Thanks!
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by varlogix 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Will think about this.
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by varlogix 8y ago
If Pingdom stops working for you for whatever reason, do reach out to us.
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by varlogix 8y ago
The core idea could be the same but I am focusing on things like simplicity and integrations like SMS, Whatsapp/Slack which could be more important for certain segments
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by varlogix 8y ago
Wow! I had no idea this is how they did it. Very cool!
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Show HN: PingStack.io – Simple uptime monitoring for websites and APIs(pingstack.io)
17 points by varlogix 8y ago|18 comments
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by varlogix 8y ago
"they seldom attack humans but they will happily eat snakes and alligators." This may not be a good idea. A lot of Indian towns are now facing problems of leopards attacking (and sometimes killing) humans, and these attacks have s
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by varlogix 8y ago
They did this in India for rats or snakes (can't remember which). To make money, people then started breeding the creatures. :)
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by varlogix 8y ago
Same issue at the previous company. Engineering team decided to turn the web app into SPA, and spent months doing this. All that time which could have been spent on building customer value were wasted.
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by varlogix 8y ago
I use SequelPro for Mac (and love it!). Has anyone used both and can explain whether it is worth switching?