Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

Re:Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Ser... by UncleEntity on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:59PM (#31389487)

Their app was last released 5 months ago and the change log says they are working on adding new features.

I think maybe simple and working is sometimes Good Enough™ and you don’t need weekly updates to prove a project is still alive.

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Re:Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Ser... by gaffneyc on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:52PM (#31389962)

Simple and reliable take a surprising amount of time to get right. We would rather move slowly and cautiously because we have thousands of operations folks who could have a really bad time if we rush something that causes folks to get paged at 2am or lose trust in the system.

Also, we’re bad at talking about the work we do. It’s the classic trap a lot of engineering founders fall into.

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Re:Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Ser... by encoderer on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:01PM (#31389503)

I’m just calling it how i see it. 5 months ago and before that? 4 years. That’s maintenance mode.

Besides, you are talking about the app, with this kind of saas, the app doesn’t really matter.

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