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Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors

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Really like the website info/design, saw it posted somewhere a few days ago and was going to sign up. Only thing that stopped me (and maybe others?) was the price.

$10 for 2 URLs is quite high when comparing to other uptime monitoring services that have been around a lot longer, most likely would have signed up if the URLs were a bit higher or the price was a tad lower ($5-6).

Otherwise looks nice all around though. :-)

Yeah, I think this is what stops everyone. You know why I put this price? Because I saw a competitor (successful competitor) who has 30$ for 15 monitors.

I think I'd increase monitors number, since it's better to have less paying customers for higher price.

Indeed

Thank you!!

Congrats again, saw you on PH first. I plan on using your service once we launch in a few weeks because Pingdom doesn't need more users. Would rather help someone starting out (as long as you are monitoring your own site ha!)

thank you ! :)

Please tell us more how and where you spent the 800 hours. What mistakes did you make, what would you do differently.

Otherwise, great looking front page!

I had a draft article for that, also I've posted an article about how therapy helped me to keep up.

But it didn't get much traction :(

However I'll post about it too, where and how I worked, even with photos!

Congratulations

Thank you!

Congratulations, how is the response?

Not much :( Didn't get much attention, but anyways

Thank you! :)

You did. Any USP to shout about?

I'll be honest, more or less I have the same functions as others. Could't find something really unique.

Except, maybe, SIGNL4 integration.

In plans:

- Customize everything as much as I can. Like you'll decide which messages/texts to show in notifications and how the status pages should look

- Badges you can put on your site, like "I have 99.99% uptime". Haven't seen this

- Some folks asked for CSV reports of uptime/response time, will add it as well

- Performance monitoring & analysis

But yes, I know, it's in plans so right now not that much to shout about =\

loved the design + title :)

Haha thank you, I was thinking about the title because there are so many posts on HN :)

Still plenty of things I want to improve and develop.

Really, is it me so slow, or it really takes so much time! At first I thought that "hey, make a request to a site isn't that hard, is it?" but I don't like about 800 hours developing this...

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