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Notify Mee

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Notify Mee performs a very simple but invaluable task:

I may be alone here, but I get rubbed the wrong way when people presume to tell me how invaluable [definition: having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth] their service is. Especially when, you know, it's not.

That whole first sentence can go.

http://dingitsup.com/ is a similar service, but can also text or tweet you in addition to emailing.

and it doesn't opt for a ridiculous misspelling as its name!

I think the dingitsup.com design is great. I won't use the service, but I appreciate how simple the design is (and I really like the white and grey color scheme). Designs like this make it very easy to understand what's being offered. Although I guess it helps though when the service itself is simple.

The whois on dingitsup does not inspire much confidence.

I'm suprised that something like this actually works.

Who puts real info in their whois record? Just because I have a website doesn't mean I want loonies showing up at my house.

I do, and so do most other reputable businesses.

Loonies don't usually use the whois to show up at your house, they can do so regardless.

I feel this should be a browser feature rather than having a website. One has to search for the book mark and then provide email id, enter the captcha. Instead of these whenever there is HTTP 404, browser itself can give a icon in the address bar to keep polling the website. Firefox plugin may be?

Hm. Nice idea but like the 5 slice toaster I wonder how many times in a year the sites that I use are down (well, other than HN of course, which crashes at least once a day and then takes several minutes to come back up again).

You'd still have to poll your email to see that whatever it was that you were looking for is back up, some kind of IM coupling would seem to be a more convenient vehicle (or a text message to a cell phone).

Still, it's a nice idea even though the current design looks like an email address harvester, no privacy policy and no 'terms of service' as far as I can see.

HN itself is kinda covered, http://hnstatus.net

I've tried using it in the past, but it wasn't very helpful. The site I wanted to visit wasn't "down" according to notify mee, it was showing a very friendly and approachable server error page.

If notify mee can't magically figure out that the site I want to visit is down, it doesn't do me much good. (I say magically, because I have no idea how they could figure that out if the site isn't sending the correct response headers)

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