Ask HN: review my startup, WatchdogDaemon
http://watchdogdaemon.com
Looks like a good MVP/start. It wasn't immediately clear what the service does, but it was pretty close. (I'm saying this is a good thing, but could be made great.)
I may be picking nits, but I think the word "innovative" in the leading sentence could be replaced with a more descriptive adjective that better defines what the service actually monitors. "innovative monitoring service" vs "____ monitoring service". Sorry, no suggestions off the top of my head.
I think the two sentences in the "REST API" section are good, but are just begging for a graphic to illustrate it.
Anything in particular that you are looking for a review on?
I like idea for a REST API graphic, I'm just not quite sure how it should look.
I don't know the ins/outs of what you're doing, but think:
my server -> your awesome service -> oooh charts
Then underneath this main simple illustration, perhaps in grayscale, you could have an example of the "old" way to do something like this (and point out why it sucks).
Why not make quarterly newsletter opt-in?
Honestly I'm not sure I will send a quarterly newsletter, I just wanted to cover myself incase I did in the future for people that pre-registered but never signed up after an invite.
In your case how big of a barrier to signup is that?