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http://updateditis.com/

by ghosttown • 14 years ago

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updateditis.com

farms2• 14 years ago

Looks pretty fancy, any plans for an API / auto upgrade system that you could have sitting server side?

nedwin• 14 years ago

Whenever I see something like this I think "Damn, I hope they do a white-label version"

ghosttown6• 14 years ago

No plans for an api as such yet. Although I might add in the ability to change the notification type. Options would be a push url, sms, jabber notification and anything else that might be useful.

farms2• 14 years ago

I think non email based notification, or customizable notification, would be a killer.

cdawzrd• 14 years ago

I like that the name can be a pun, "Updated-itis: a disease where the afflicted person cannot help but check hourly whether all of their software is up-to-date"

ghosttown6• 14 years ago

I like that... it was originally a play on yodas strange little syntax.

andrewmunsell• 14 years ago

Of course, anyone that knows what the suffix "-itis" is for will be cringing. It always has bugged me when people use "-itis"-- your [insert thing here] is not inflamed ;)

nathanpc• 14 years ago

Congratulations. Awesome idea and a great implementation.

ghosttown6• 14 years ago

Thanks :)

zalew3• 14 years ago

I thought of making a similar service, but with the option to upload a package manager config file. scenario: I have project A and B, with some dependencies. I upload the files, and I get a weekly digest "project A: updates for django, userena, taggit, jquery, zurb foundation. project B: django, zurb foundation" or similar. Have you thought of implementing it?

ghosttown6• 14 years ago

I have almost finished the ability to add custom projects (within reason). Perhaps I could then implement a service which auto-detects packages. So, user Bob creates a repo in github. He adds a file in the root called packages.json which contains a list of the packages he is using. He then adds his repo to updateditis.com. Updateditis periodically checks his packages.json file and if it detects a change in one of the packages versions, it emails Bob saying "For project XYZ, the package ABC has been updated to version 1.2.3, you should consider updating it."

zalew3• 14 years ago

why would I need to add a repo in a scm provider of your choice? let me just upload a requirements file.

Tobu2• 14 years ago

Support-status would be a more useful indicator than is-latest. Of course you can't scrape it, but you could crowd-source it.

timgluz• 14 years ago

Have you tried versioneye.com?

Tobu2• 14 years ago

I just did. It's useless for Python; requirements.txt isn't what PyPI uses.

scherrymomin• 14 years ago

Reminds me of Bundlescout: http://bundlescout.com

nathan_long• 14 years ago

Ruby programmers who use Bundler can get this for their gems with `bundle outdated`. It's not push notification, but it's much more comprehensive.

wise_young_man• 14 years ago

Cool idea, similar to what I had in mind using Git's tagging system when I built http://hubnotify.com. Are you using any repo or is the version just in a local database?

ghosttown6• 14 years ago

Nice site! Currently tracking the version in a local database and checking for changes hourly via cron. I've half implemented checking github repo's but its not 100% accurate yet. Not sure how you are doing it but I am going to focus on an update being any change to a branch. So its basically tracking branches only.

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