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http://52.4.212.135:4567/

by adrenalinerush6 • 11 years ago

97 81 11 years ago

52.4.212.135

sprremix• 11 years ago

It's dead here, all I see is "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

try again, just had to update analytics code

lucb1e5• 11 years ago

Do you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®?

Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

If you choose a color of brown, but a preference of greener, you'll get the notification right away ;)

chrissnell• 11 years ago

You need a 226262 short code. Text a photo of your banana to BANANA and we'll send you back a text when it's ready to eat!

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

Good idea! except i feel like there might be some bananas that get sent in that weren't grown on a tree, jah feel?

click1702• 11 years ago

This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

rplnt• 11 years ago

Having a domain name would help too.

JonnieCache2• 11 years ago

The IP address makes it funnier for some reason.

lucb1e5• 11 years ago

Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally).

So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random site in XHR).

freehunter6• 11 years ago

If you're studying security and you think TOR will work to get you past corporate firewalls... good luck out there. Keep studying.

unoti• 11 years ago

In the real world, it's common to see network professionals who apparently specialize in preventing communications between computers. Similarly, it's common to see DBA's whose number one goal seems to be preventing anyone from accessing the data. And it's also common to find engineers who seem focused on seeing every goal as impossible, and business analysts who when they hear what you want tell you why you can't have it. It's not rational but it's very common!

click1702• 11 years ago

I humbly submit you haven't seen an environment that was high security.

There's two general ways to treat Internet traffic, whitelisting and blacklisting. Many companies will simply use blacklists. These are easy to bypass as you are well aware. I have seen more than one environment that was whitelist based, no machine can access any other machine that isn't required for it to do it's job. Anyone needing to override a block enters a username, password, and reason, if they have the authority to do so, which leaves an audit trail.

Security and convenience is often a trade off, you do a risk assessment to determine if it's worth the risk to you and your company. For many people and companies, it's not, so they blacklist.

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

currently up on port 8080, best i could do at work

http://52.4.212.135:8080/

jewel• 11 years ago

Here's a screenshot for those behind corporate firewalls:

http://i.imgur.com/pwSaDY4.png

a3r0• 11 years ago

It should be on port 4011

artursapek• 11 years ago

What's your exit strategy?

robotnoises• 11 years ago

Probably something along the lines of "I'll drive away from the building in my new Bugatti..."

spelunker• 11 years ago

"Here in my GARAGE, just bought this new Bugatti"

stevelaz• 11 years ago

I'd pay 2 bananas for this app

jamieomatthews• 11 years ago

2 very green bananas

dcuthbertson• 11 years ago

To peel out, I'd say.

bttf• 11 years ago

Really could use a checkbox for the 'Bag and Apple' users out there. Faster ripening times but still could use a reminder.

djrogers• 11 years ago

Yup - ripening in a mixed fruit bowl, hanging on a banana hanger, or in a bag with ethylene producing fruit (like an apple) will dramatically impact the timing - several days difference...

anc842• 11 years ago

Add photo interpretation (heck, do it manually at first as MVP) and you might get quite a few "colorblind" users. Fruit ripeness is a huge problem for many and bananas are usually the example.

ollybee• 11 years ago

I would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.

SoftwareMaven• 11 years ago

I thought the same thing. I love avacodos, but I've given up purchasing them because I'm so bad at finding the millisecond they are ready to eat before they turn to mush.

Nogwater• 11 years ago

I've started buying them when they're very hard (Costco sells them by the bag) and then waiting for them to ripen at home. This keeps them from getting bruised by other shoppers. So far, I've had good luck with them being ripe and good for about 3 days.

jerf• 11 years ago

Also,

    Step 1: Select Your Avocado's Color!

    ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green
    ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green

would cause some user experience issues.

tiglionabbit• 11 years ago

I need a pear alert.

olau• 11 years ago

I visited an orchard a couple of years ago. The owner stored his pears at 0 degrees celsius and apples a little bit warmer - 4 degrees celcius if I'm not mistaken.

Since that day I've put my apples and pears in the refridgerator, and haven't had to suffer as many overripe pears and apples.

jksmith• 11 years ago

Well obviously that should be a backlog item to grow a user community by allowing users to upload modules.

SimplyUseless2• 11 years ago

Thinking of a drunk scenario, where I could end up setting bad alerts for me and eating a lot of green bananas; it would be wise to add a drunk check such as simple math sums.

smaili• 11 years ago

Love the idea! Strongly recommend a domain name though :)

aheller• 11 years ago

You should add email notifications too. I'm in Canada so my carrier isn't listed, but I want to know when to eat my bananas. Last time I was at the grocery store they only had extremely green bananas so now I'm playing the waiting game.

kingzain• 11 years ago

Missing the doctype. Some people who would like to use this site would be on some outdated browsers that would break without a doctype :(

Practicality2• 11 years ago

var bananalife = 5 * 24;

Bananas live 5 days?

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

based on a google search. this is more of a joke project than anything lol

Ecco• 11 years ago

You don't say? ;-)

ovi256• 11 years ago

You can always tune this by gradient walking to the minimum of HN complaints.

sparrish• 11 years ago

Add an 'upload a photo' option to automatically set the current banana color. And then I'll have a photo history of all the bananas I've ever eaten as well!

freehunter6• 11 years ago

Alltel? Do they even exist anymore?

JonnieCache2• 11 years ago

What's missing here is that old animated gif of the dancing banana.

gidan• 11 years ago

http://www.sherv.net/banana-emoticons.html

pluma• 11 years ago

Thanks. Now I have that song stuck in my head. I didn't even need to hear it -- the visuals were enough of a trigger.

ukandy• 11 years ago

Here I am developing a BLE ethylene monitoring device. Arg, your implementation is so simple. My kickstarter is doomed to failure.

sbilstein• 11 years ago

Very Big Dada of you, wonderful. Thanks.

volent• 11 years ago

Here is the github repo : https://github.com/singerbj/bananalert

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

noooo dont look at the code its really crappyyyyy

mattdeboard• 11 years ago

Where's the kickstarter

SimplyUseless2• 11 years ago

Hey! I got it! You build it to get ads from "Despicable Me".

dignick• 11 years ago

I won't be happy until the banana can wirelessly notify my Apple Watch that it is now ripe.

nsxwolf• 11 years ago

I would not be surprised at all if the little Chaquita stickers will someday contain chemical sensors and a mote computer, and will do just that.

bliti• 11 years ago

Nice! I went bananas when I saw the page. Started to monkey around with the settings. And I went baboom when I saw that it would text me.

/* Engage HN filter /

How do you plan to monetize this? This is clearly ripe for disrupting the fuits/supermarket economy. Like an Uber but for fruits.

I think you should email, tweet, instagram, like, share, deck and meet Paul Graham in order to get into Y combinator. This will be bigger than AirBnB.

Ryan from Product Hunt will be contacting you in shortly!

/ Filter off */

t_fatus• 11 years ago

This could be of so much help when MarsOne guys stranded on Mars will need to know if they can eat their bananas! For once there will be some science in their project.

blueblob• 11 years ago

You're missing green/brown which is what half of the bananas at my grocery store are.

robogimp• 11 years ago

The hospital here does a roaring trade in distressed looking bananas with random grey skuff marks...

sp332• 11 years ago

Since HTTP is deprecated, and you can't get TLS certificates for IP addresses, that means pages hosted like this will be at a disadvantage from now on right?

michaelsitver• 11 years ago

Absolutely brilliant. Now you just need to release this for every fruit. Appleapp. PineapplePulse. Instant billion dollar unicorn company.

bigredtech• 11 years ago

Includes http://assets.absolutdrinks.com/api/addb-0.5.2.js

From Absolut Drinks in the source. And it's collecting phone numbers? ...

Not sure this is the purest of intentions. Not sure it's not though.

[Edit - Looks legit and unaffiliated :) ]

thrillgore• 11 years ago

Nope. No. No no no no no. I don't know what the hell you want with my number.

AustinScript• 11 years ago

"Error, please check all parts of the form are filled" - didn't work on iOS mobile. My alerts! NOooooooooooooooooo!!

adrenalinerush67• 11 years ago

Public VM crashed, no different ip. RIP Bananalert...

jameshk• 11 years ago

Hey! I'd be willing to host Bananalert for free on AWS, as I have lots of credits!

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