Re:Show HN: Simple monitoring service
by geerlingguy on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:59AM
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+1 to this. I've set up a few services of a similar nature, and a couple were worth enough to me to go to a further length and monetize, but only insofar as it paid my server bills and added a little on top for taxes and such.
It feels great to hack on something like this, and not worry about billing integration and supporting paid customers at first.
Thanks! "Trust" on the internet is never a thing and I have been growing suspicious of it more everyday. Way back when you could almost trust your DCC on IRC but lucrativeness involved with the 'unwashed masses' in using the internet make this horrible problem for a technologist exploring new things.
Maybe one day if there are a lot of users I'll implement paid accounts with more than 10 alerts and history dashboard. But most likely it will never gain enough traction for that, in which case it's no problem, since I have 6 tiny servers for different activities and this only uses 2 of the with minimal resources (it's just ping). It will just sit there alerting me and some others when something goes down.