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Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple mo... by ooorrr on Saturday October 17, 2009 @12:47PM (#887119)
This looks great - perfect for the site that doesn't need 1-minute monitoring. Montastic has been ok for this purpose but I'm happy to try something else.

My feature request - 140-character SMS messages when you're down.

Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple mo... by uggedal on Saturday October 17, 2009 @01:08PM (#887150)
That could be a possible feature for paying customers. I'm not shelling out lots of money for a good international SMS broker before I know that it can break even.

For now you can use your mobile provider's Email-to-SMS gateway (if such are provided).

Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple mo... by ooorrr on Saturday October 17, 2009 @03:15PM (#887298)
That's totally reasonable. You might offer two emails for an outage, one to their email and one for SMS.
Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple mo... by uggedal on Saturday October 17, 2009 @04:55PM (#887415)
Sorry, I get what you meant now. My normal email would of course be mangled by the SMS limit. I'll look into it.