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Software dev/team lead from Gdańsk, Poland.
Thanks for this very useful tool! It became an essential part of online meetings with my team -- it's been working great for us. We love the simplicity. For me it's missing only a single feature: ability to draw basic shapes like lines, rectangles or squares.
Thanks again!
Just wait till you get a wife ;-)
The first project on the site is to fix that problem ;-) A perfect chicken-and-egg implementation!
A litte suggestion: It would be very useful to have author name (with a link to bio probably) next to the submission title. Knowing who will give the presentation is as much important as knowing its title.
Good to hear you have a plan :-)
From my experience, going from one to multiple monitoring nodes gets way more complicated than expected; make sure you have your timestamps across the nodes right, especially when you decide to go down with the interval to 1 minute or less.
Also, investing time in a testing setup where all scenarios can be tested paid off greatly. Having scripts covering all edge cases lets you sleep better when you have paying customers :-)
Good luck!
What do you guys think is the best price/feature ratio for that kind of service? I can't find any detailed feature listing on the website, but it seems you can't offer much for ~$1 a month.
Do you think 15 minute interval is enough? I assume the checks are made from one network location only (can't find details on the about page), would anyone be confident of the results with such setup? Is there any re-check in case of failure? API access? Etc.
I think this service might be popular with amateur bloggers/website owners. I don't think it would satisfy businesses that consider downtime a profit loss. I think they might be looking for a bit more advanced solution.
P.S. I'm a bit biased here. Since I started my own website monitoring project it seems that everyone else and their dog are also running one... :-( Good news is that my service becomes recognizable in Poland and I'll be launching it for the rest of the world soon :-) Hope to get some feedback here when that happens.
That's what "lead generation" in Mila(http://mila.com) is doing: tweets matching vendor's products/services are presented as potential leads for the salesperson to act upon. When you tweet "looking for a cool new shirt" Old Navy would see your message and could give you a coupon.