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Some customers of my product, StatusGator, do this with our API. They can extract the outage data -- including the time when we detect the outage before its acknowledged. And then use that to get SLA credits.

Thank you for this breakdown and for this level of transparency. We have been thinking of moving from MapTiler to OpenFreeMap for StatusGator's outage maps.

We're seeing a lot of downstream effects of this at StatusGator. Of course any provider that relies on LetsEncrypt to issue certs (such as Heroku) is affected.

One notable exception is Cloudflare: They famously no longer rely solely on LetsEncrypt.

I recall seeing the Mozilla Review Checker pop up on Amazon shortly after I started using it as my daily driver.

I dismissed it quickly because fake reviews is not a problem I have. Maybe I'm not the target market? I do buy a lot on Amazon but can't recall ever thinking I felt burned by fake reviews.

Absolutely insane. Until recently, I had none. Now I at least have a LinkedIn account. My mother has no social media at all.

Running a mail server in 2025 so fraught, I'd caution anyone against attempting it. Not sure why you would want that trouble with so many options available, including privacy-focused vendors.

If Proton is not appealing, what about mailbox.org?

When did IndieHackers get a paywall?

Interesting to me that the Apple II+ was the only one in the comparison matrix that supported only upper case letters.

That lead me to this:

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why...

One alternative VC fund that comes to mind is TinySeed: https://tinyseed.com

Though perhaps the "ethics" you're referring to, they invest in bootstrapped companies who aren't necessarily on the venture track moonshot rat race. For me, that's a big part of the unethical side of VC: Throwing money at a 1,000 ideas and expecting 999 of them to fail in hopes of one goldmine.

My own company, StatusGator, took a small investment from them even though we swore we'd never take VC money. It was a great choice for us and I feel TinySeed's ethics and values far outshine other investors.

So the US Digital Service is no more? What happens to all its engineers and developers?

Sounds like you got the onboarding email but not the confirmation email. It should have a subject of "Confirm your Account". Email us hi@statusgator.com if you still have issues.

If nobody minds a plug: My own product, StatusGator, which was launched here on HackerNews 10 year ago, notifies IT teams about outages before they are acknowledged by official status pages.

- This OpenAI outage[1] we notified 4 minutes before they acknowledged.

- The last AWS outage[2], we notified 28 minutes before they acknowledged

- There is def an Azure outage[3] now yet they have still not updated their status page. We notified 35 minutes ago.

1. https://statusgator.com/services/openai

2. https://statusgator.com/blog/amazon-cognito-outage-december-...

3. https://statusgator.com/services/azure

I install the Bullet gem in every Rails project because it not only detects these N+1 queries but tells you how to fix them, helping to ensure they never even make it to production.

https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

Huh, what am I missing? This looks absolutely nothing like the link from OP.

They are called scissor stairs and it's very common here in newer buildings in NYC as well. Though I believe it's only permitted in buildings 12 stories are less? It always seemed very space efficient -- separated by concrete fireproof walls and taking up the same vertical space.

For me this works only to stop future messages from that campaign. All the campaigns seem to buy and sell lists so I just get a different message from a different campaign at a different number. Here are the most recent offenders:

  Katrina Christiansen
  Harry Dunn
  Arizona for Abortion Access 
  Turnout PAC
  Yvette Clarke
  Josh Stein
  Ty Pinkins
  Democratic Majority
  Tammy Baldwin
  Democrats United

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352347

I actually just wrote about this very thing. It's not just that it SEEMS less reliable, it absolutely is:

https://statusgator.com/blog/is-north-virginia-aws-region-th...

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Avoid Stripe at all costs.

They have a table of everything listed along with a new price for it. All they would need to add is a column showing the existing price. There is a 100% chance they have a spreadsheet internally passed around with that existing price column.

Do you really believe it was a not a deliberate choice to not show the side by side comparison?

You might be interested in a project of mine then: StatusGator is a status aggregator.

I have tons of this kind of data due to my side project, StatusGator. For some services like the big cloud providers I have data going back 7 years.

There indeed has been an uptick in AWS outages recently. You can see a bit of the history here: https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services

Would you be okay with a human reading your GPL code and learning how to write closed source software for closed source projects?

Glad to see this here! I’ve been looking for something like this as I’ve been using Vim for writing prose more recently.

I wrote a blog post about this once[1] because I was totally shocked how few people actually use a separate domain for their status page. It's like < 0.5% and I'll never understand why.

1. https://statusgator.com/blog/2020/04/21/your-status-page-des...

Updated the post, thanks!

I've been using Vim for many years and felt like there was constantly stuff to learn. So a partner and I started an email newsletter that sends tips twice a week:

https://vimtricks.com

The idea was that by forcing myself to write about Vim consistently, I would learn and absorb more and boy has it worked.

Glad to see this because we just started using Vercel for StatusGator.

Their API is great: we were able to automate deployments of branded status dashboards very quickly. There are some rough edges around domain name management but overall the experience is very developer-friendly, analogous to Heroku but for a different architecture.

I operate StatusGator, which is a service that aggregates status pages so I'm ALL TOO familiar with the AWS status page.

The main change they made in 2017 was the ability to post a message at the top of the page that is independent of the status of the individual items below. IIRC, it was the items they couldn't update. So that is kind of a hack, but it works.

It would be ideal if it was host entirely on completely separate infrastructure, and even a separate domain, but I won't hold my breath. Theirs is still more reliable than, for example, the IBM Cloud status page which was hard down during their epic outage back in June.