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11 pointsnedzadk12y ago12 comments

Type in URL and keyword to look for, set search interval and forget it. Once keyword you are looking for appears on site you will receive email notification with short description and link to article (hopefully :D :D :D)

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dopey12y ago

Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder?

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.

kbar1312y ago

looks like DNS is kind janky. google didn't put my confirmation email into spam though.

nedzadkOP12y ago

sorry guys it works on my private mail and web server. DNS used is one from godaddy (its where my domain is). I'll iron this things in next days!

awa12y ago

It depends on how much you want to invest in this, however, companies pay top dollars for services like these (see: http://www.keynote.com/)

toomuchtodo12y ago

Ehhhh, not so much,

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".

sloop12y ago

fast and nice clean interface. I would like to see a 'run now' button when adding a thing to watch to see if it works immediately.

do you have a specific target audience for this?

nedzadkOP12y ago

Honestly this is something i had in mind for my personal use. It still need lots of work on search engine to look for links smarter and return less not working links.

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.

alecsmart112y ago

This is great! Two requests- - can you add negative monitoring option ie if keyword not found, then email - do you plan to opensource this?

nedzadkOP12y ago

Ill look what i can do about email that nothing is found. About open sourcing this project, well im not yet sure what will i do with it...it was just weekend project created by me cause i needed it for my personal use, we will see, maybe ill open source it i coming days

nedzadkOP12y ago

Just want to let you know that i've changed search code so now it should work almost perfect.

Additional features comming soon!

obsession12y ago

What do need my full name for?

nedzadkOP12y ago

it is not required just when i send you email it can look more human. you can put anything you want.

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12 comments

dopey12y ago

Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder?

kbar1312y ago

looks like DNS is kind janky. google didn't put my confirmation email into spam though.

nedzadkOP12y ago

sorry guys it works on my private mail and web server. DNS used is one from godaddy (its where my domain is). I'll iron this things in next days!

awa12y ago

It depends on how much you want to invest in this, however, companies pay top dollars for services like these (see: http://www.keynote.com/)

toomuchtodo12y ago

Ehhhh, not so much,

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".

sloop12y ago

fast and nice clean interface. I would like to see a 'run now' button when adding a thing to watch to see if it works immediately.

do you have a specific target audience for this?

nedzadkOP12y ago

Honestly this is something i had in mind for my personal use. It still need lots of work on search engine to look for links smarter and return less not working links.

alecsmart112y ago

This is great! Two requests- - can you add negative monitoring option ie if keyword not found, then email - do you plan to opensource this?

nedzadkOP12y ago

Just want to let you know that i've changed search code so now it should work almost perfect.

Additional features comming soon!

obsession12y ago

What do need my full name for?

nedzadkOP12y ago

it is not required just when i send you email it can look more human. you can put anything you want.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse