Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)
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App looks good, was thinking about creating something like this for my own use. My use case would be for monitoring a forum 'Whats New' page so we can be alerted if a thread is started about our business. But we would need the alert much more frequently (every hour at least), and wouldn't want the same alert over and over again.
I run IT ops at a startup, and $200-400/month was too much for PagerDuty or Pingdom's Team pricing levels.
We settled on their $50/month plan. Sure, enterprise customers may pay more, granted, but this is a commodity space. Ping, up? Good. Ping, down? Email, sms, webook. Race to the bottom.
Disclaimer: Technology professional, 12 years in the sysadmin/devops/mgmt "space".
do you have a specific target audience for this?
About audience, well i think anyone could find good use of this. But mainly its good for monitor news sites like cnn bbc aljazeera and so on, and those sites i primary used for testing so it should have best results on them.
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