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thereon Ask HN: Website monitoring tool that will wake me up when site is down?

Pushover allows per-message sound settings, so you could configure just alerts from your monitoring to play a sound and send at priority 2 which will bypass your device's quiet settings and repeat to wake you up.

https://pushover.net/api#sounds

https://pushover.net/api#priority2

thereon /Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

https://plan.cat/

thereon Subtext - A multi-user BBS server for classic macOS

Correct: https://jcs.org/2022/07/15/kludge#threading

thereon Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

On Android, Pushover is able to (optionally) play notification sounds for high-priority messages through the alarm channel like an alarm app would, so it can bypass the device's mute switch.

thereon Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

That is correct. Pushover has been around for 10 years now and I get most of its financial support from Team subscriptions.

https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2022/3/ten

Any individual users wanting to support Pushover are welcome to join as a personal Team with 1 member :)

thereon Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go

Just FYI, Pushover has a Glances API so you can push data like that directly to an Apple Watch complication.

https://pushover.net/api/glances

thereon .plan

The non-user-generated content is returned in Catalan if your browser's language is set to it.

thereon Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

https://github.com/jcs/progman

thereon Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability

knowing the wireless network name and key is only worth anything if you know where that network is, and can actually go there and do something

The AP's MAC address would be the same, which you can just plug into https://find-wifi.mylnikov.org/

thereon Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

You can encrypt notifications that go through Google's FCM and Apple's APNS push notification servers. This is how Pushover works - each notification is encrypted with a device-specific key, sent through the notification servers as an encrypted blob, then the app on the device is woken up and receives the blob, decrypts it, and posts it as a normal notification.

thereon Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

Just to clarify, Pushover is not a "paid service" in that you need to pay for a subscription. You only have to pay once to use it past the 7-day free trial.

thereon Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

I'd love it if a moderator would post something when they change a title so it's clear what happened and who did it, but it would probably generate a lot of useless meta threads debating the change (and of course, it would actually reveal who the moderators are).

thereon Apple, Google Just Killed Portable GPS Devices

The upcoming Maps update for Android will have offline support so you can pre-cache a selected area.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/6/3068113/google-maps-offline...

thereon Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

That is false. I've had titles of my own submissions changed by someone else, and as the submitter of the Light Table link replied in that thread, he or she did not change the title, either.

thereon Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”

The new ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX21A 11"/UX31A 13") models that were announced last month have similar specs to the new MBA (Ivy Bridge, up to 256Gb SSD, etc.) but are both available with 1920x1080 IPS screens. I had the original UX21 and sold it because the keyboard was not so great, but from the reviews of the new models, they have improved the keyboard and trackpad.

thereon Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros

And a new Airport Express that no longer plugs directly into the wall. https://www.apple.com/wifi/

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

Users would have to purchase the Pushover app. It sounds like you want https://parse.com/ which would be an SDK you can integrate into your app to get push notifications.

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

I don't really have much experience in the way of sales and marketing, but my integration efforts so far have just been to setup Pushover applications with icons ahead of time and then e-mail admins with the API key and some explanation so they don't have to do much work. I did the Github integration and Adium plugin myself to increase visibility.

I went with $3.99 because Prowl is $2.99 and Notify My Android is $3.99. I'm not convinced that a yearly service is worth the overhead and I personally wouldn't pay to use a notification app that had a yearly fee.

The bandwidth and server overhead for running such a service are pretty low and iOS/Android push notifications are free, so I'm not really worried about monthly costs for normal users outweighing the revenue the app brings in. Right now Pushover is running on one of my servers that does other things, so it's not even really costing anything tangible. If costs start to go up, I can always increase the price of the apps to slow growth (or increase revenue if it doesn't slow growth).

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

Most are sending alerts to themselves. While I've integrated it into Github and my Fitbit notifier to try to pick up users that just want to receive alerts, most are using it to generate their own alerts from network monitors, BitTorrent clients, IRC clients, etc.

I pinged the ifttt.com guys to ask about integration but haven't heard back yet. I'd like to do more integration with services that currently do e-mail notifications like http://hnnotify.com (I've already contacted them) to pick up more end-users.

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

It's hard to work out accurate numbers because users can have such drastically different usage patterns. Some users have signed up with one device and have only received a few notifications, others have many devices registered and receive dozens of notifications daily from chat plugins.

The API is free, though applications are limited to a reasonable number of messages per month. That was put into place out of fear that a large company would use the app/service as a dirt-cheap platform to send large amounts of messages every day to its employees (like routing/dispatching directions, etc.) and burden the service. And rightly so, since shortly after launching, I got an e-mail from a large US company looking to use it in such a way (they ultimately decided not to use it). If such customers do come along, their API fees will cover them being on segmented servers.

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

Seems a rogue bot/spider was causing some trouble, it should work now.

thereon Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

I created a push notification service called Pushover (https://pushover.net/) and wrote its iOS and Android apps. I started the project in January and launched it in March (https://jcs.org/pushover).

In contrast to some competing free apps/services, the Pushover mobile apps are $3.99 which pays for the monthly hosting costs to keep the service running. Both apps are highly rated on both app stores and so far the app sales have paid for the domain name and other tangible development costs and are continuing to generate profit. I just purchased a Blackberry phone for development and plan to create a Blackberry app for the service.

thereon 37signals Pow no longer automatically supports RVM

Source?

thereon Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

"phreaking"

thereon I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Too

I sometimes do that even for articles that aren't "Show HN". The oldest article on the newest page is currently 31 minutes, so if your submission doesn't get at least a few upvotes within 31 minutes, it will never be seen.

I've previously said that there should be some kind of algorithm for that page other than "here are the latest entries", such as "here are the randomized latest entries over the past few hours without enough upvotes to reach the front page, removing the entries that are on the front page, removing most-likely-spam entries that have at least one flag and were submitted by a new account, and (maybe) giving weight to submitters with higher account ages or karma scores."

thereon The IPv6 Challenge

It requires that your baseband support IPv6 and that you have the T-Mobile APN in Android configured to IPv6-only (it will tunnel IPv4 over IPv6).

thereon The IPv6 Challenge

My Nexus S on T-Mobile in the US has IPv6 already.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/7110449061/

thereon Back That Gmail Up

Shit happens, but with nearly every other provider, you can at least talk to someone to find out what happened and get your service restored, or at least get your data.

thereon Back That Gmail Up

It's also the backdoor to nearly every online account you have, by way of 'reset password' links.

thereon Laravel : A New PHP Framework

https://github.com/jcs/halfmoon