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Also, the message is customizable. I'm kind of surprised at how many commenters didn't assume it would be, so I'll need to think about how to change the presentation.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Interesting idea -- thanks for the suggestion

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Wellll, you could set it to check every 1-30 days, so maybe set it to check less frequently?

Wouldn't solve the changing-your-number thing, but I'm guessing you don't do that too often.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Haha -- thanks, Dave -- glad you like it :)

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Indeed, as @axlee said, Semantic UI. Highly recommended.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Thanks! I'll try to get something together next week.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

I have not!

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Thanks so much :)

As @jdale27 said, there's built-in functionality with AWS that lets you subscribe to various events, e.g. S3 uploads, CloudWatch logs, etc.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

There's a scheduled Lambda that sends messages via Twilio.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Thanks! Much appreciated :)

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

You can set the message to whatever you want; the message in the screenshots is just in keeping with the overall tone of the site.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Right -- the message is customizable, and after you save your contacts, it prompts you with a message you can text them to let them know about the service.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Yeah, you customize your own message -- write whatever you'd want to send, e.g. the location of a spare key.

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Oh, it's all customizable. You write whatever you want, like "I haven't checked in in a day -- please make sure I'm alright."

mk4pon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://izuded.com

(i.e., "iz u ded?")

I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful.

It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts.

It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" architecture. Details about its construction here: https://medium.com/@marclar/iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9

mk4pon Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?

If you're on Chrome, you might like the "Tab Snooze" extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...

mk4pon FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor

Incorrect -- they requested an "instrument", which carries with it all sorts of legal requirements beyond creating an in-house tool.

Source: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645

mk4pon Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade

Re: Steam support in Linux, do you have any idea about VR support? I'm not a huge gamer and I'd consider ditching Windows over this incident, except that I want to play with my Vive when it gets here.

mk4pon Amazon Echo Dot

There's:

- https://jasperproject.github.io/

and

- https://mycroft.ai/projects/

mk4pon Living with and building for the Amazon Echo

How do you find yourself using it?

mk4pon Ask HN: How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?

What might constitute a guilt-laden form?

mk4pon Control your server using Whatsapp

Not OP, but the best lesson I've learned in the past couple of years is that the code you don't write doesn't break.

I used to write code to fix existing problems; now I see if there's code I can refactor or remove first. Big difference.

mk4pon Show HN: DEEP Framework – DYI Microservices on Serverless AWS (e.g. www.deep.mg)

I think you need to better explain what you do.

I looked through the site and saw modules I could add . . to something.

I clicked on one module to read more about it and there was a one-line description and an image slider whose thumnails wouldn't expand.

I like the sound of "DIY" (probably not "DYI" as in your title), I like the sound of "Microservices" and "Serverless AWS", which sound like buzzwords I'd like to learn more about, but the site doesn't answer those questions, even for someone curious enough to poke around.

The template placeholders like "User review User review User review" don't inspire the kind of confidence people will need before they "Add to cart" for $14.99 to somehow deal with credit cards.

I realize this is "Show HN" and you're not launching. I don't mean to sound harsh.

I do think you need to polish things more, and know that HN readers are your actual audience.

One nitpick - clicking on the "Recommended Microservices" section leaves you in the same position but should scroll to the top of the page.

Nitpick 2: I tried to enter my email to be notified of updates and the form doesn't work.