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johnson Show HN: Aerobatic – Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps

And make sure to prompt to select an email address for those that have multiple ones on their accounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

johnson New Heroku Dashboard and Metrics now in Beta

New Relic is a bigger business now* (*speculating). And it used to be integrated into the dashboard before the add-on marketplace existed.

johnson Ask HN: Where should I submit a press release?

Ditto this. It's likely not to get you any press of value. Write some personalized, targeted emails (or get intros) to press instead. Tell a compelling story (tie into an existing narrative if you can) and keep it short and to the point.

johnson PagerDuty raises $27.2M in Series B led by Bessemer

How do you like ours? http://stephenherrod.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/runscope_t-...

johnson 80+ Speakers in the First Ever Virtual Software Conference (AirPair W14)

I think you're underestimating the scope of MvcConf. It was bigger than what you're marketing.

johnson 80+ Speakers in the First Ever Virtual Software Conference (AirPair W14)

Looks like a great event. However "first ever" is a specious claim. See http://www.mvcconf.com/ http://www.aspconf.net/ http://www.dotnetconf.net/ Those were inspired by another online-only conference whose name is escaping me.

johnson Golang at Runscope

If anyone has any questions about how we're using Go (particularly around builds/deployments) or what the transition was like, we're here to answer them!

johnson Ask HN: Can I make it in the Valley and live a well-rounded life?

Don't believe everything you read. While there is definitely a valley culture, not every company is the same. For instance, we put a huge emphasis on actual work/life balance. We've even posted proof: https://www.runscope.com/jobs

johnson Keen IO builds your custom analytics infrastructure so you don’t have to

We use it quite extensively and it's been great. The API is really well designed and hasn't limited us at all. Being able to send arbitrary event schemas is nice too. We were able to re-use an existing JSON document format with only minor changes which means we don't have to do a lot of mapping back and forth. I highly recommend them.

(Disclosure: we partner with Keen IO on some product stuff, but we pay for our account for the analytics stuff just like anyone else.)

johnson Ask HN: simple analytics api to offer analytics features on my platform

Keen.io

johnson Show HN: Simple "Integration Tests" for Your APIs, Through the Web

Congrats on the launch. Always like seeing more API tools!

johnson HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

You could use our Share URLs which would let the people you share defects with reproduce them for themselves: https://www.runscope.com/docs/sharing

johnson Combatting illegal abuses of ngrok

If you want a paid version, you have a lot of options: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/a-survey-of-the-localhost-proxy...

johnson Ask HN: Accounting Software for startups that isn't quickbooks?

Less accounting Wave Xero

johnson Ask HN: Feedback for an API to send triggered emails?

yeah, absolutely

johnson Ask HN: Which Support tools do you use?

HelpScout + Olark is what we use for support. I especially love HelpScout.

johnson Ask HN: Feedback for an API to send triggered emails?

This sounds like customer.io

johnson Finch – local port forwarding

Adding now

johnson Finch – local port forwarding

http://john-sheehan.com/blog/a-survey-of-the-localhost-proxy...

I guess I need to update this now.

johnson Finch – local port forwarding

And that localtunnel.me is a Node.js "port" of the original localtunnel (which has been superceded by ngrok): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

johnson Finch – local port forwarding

It's a crowded space :) http://john-sheehan.com/blog/a-survey-of-the-localhost-proxy...

johnson Dropbox Webhooks

http://john-sheehan.com/blog/a-survey-of-the-localhost-proxy...

johnson Paw – HTTP and REST API Tester for Mac

I see you've committed to Newman. Are you working with Postman?

johnson Your REST API should come with a client

I can't recall the exact episode, but we talked more about smart client on trafficandweather.io

We definitely need to publish more about it

johnson Your REST API should come with a client

Providers should definitely provide clients. This is one of the things I worked on at Twilio and it's extremely important for onboarding new customers. Support as many languages and frameworks as you can sustain and make them first-class (just as well documented as REST, native to the language, etc).

However, I've also seen the other side of this working at IFTTT where (at the time) we had a gemfile a mile long. That got really hairy. I now try to avoid using clients. I go into it in great detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO62A3XaSs and we've talked about this many times on trafficandweather.io if you want to learn more.

johnson API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A

Thanks Danny!

johnson API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A

Edit: I should also note that the press really likes the testing stuff, but it's half of what we do. Check out the Traffic Inspector as well: https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging

johnson API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A

In addition to what danenania said, we also take the work out of running those tests continuously from an external source and integrating with third-party notification services (like PagerDuty). That's where we straddle the line between testing and monitoring.