Ask HN: Should I build this idea?
I was wondering what some of you thought of this idea I am considering going ahead and trying to build-- so the general gist is that it would be a way to automatically keep your customers updated on the status of their site when it goes down. So what does that mean? Simply put, it would be a third party twitter application that checks the status of your website multiple times per day, and when it picks up a 503 status, it will automatically tweet out a preset message saying "We know we're down, but we'll be back up soon! Please stay tuned."(just an example) Then, it will continually check your site, and when it's live again, another tweet will be sent saying "We're back! Sorry about that folks!".... The point of this service is it will take care of customer service in terms of keeping customers/users updated on the status of your site, automatically.
Thoughts? Would you use it?
Thanks!