... something, it should say so. "Is it me, or is it GitHub?" octoscope only ever talks to GitHub, so when GitHub has a bad day every symptom looks like octoscope being broken. It now asks GitHub's own status page and tells you which it is, right when you're deciding who to blame. The tricky part was what it doesn't do: it stays silent while GitHub is fine, and silent if it can't reach the status

... news, and none of them looked broken. One. A refresh job reported one item refreshed successfully. I checked the field that records when the price was last written and it had not moved. The function underneath returns an ok status for a product that does not exist, and my counter incremented on ok rather than on a value having been written. So the counter measured whether the call returned, not whether anything happened. It had been reporting success ... ... branch that returned before reaching it. So the one failure the entire mechanism existed for was the one failure it could not see. The node called itself healthy the whole time it was being turned away. Three. My public status

... really sick of sending weekly reports. I ve created dashboards and shared them with stakeholders, so they have access to everything. Yet at the end of every week, I get a message from the client: Need a weekly status report. This absolutely pisses me off. And here's the most annoying part: despite sending these reports, I often hear from stakeholders, I still don't have full visibility into what we're doing. Excuse my language, but either these mfkers ...

... Just turn off prerendering is not a safe move on its own, and I would rather say that out loud than let someone repeat it. The part that bothers me most is not the bug. It is that a status code check was never going to catch it. The process returned a fast, clean, completely wrong 200, with another company's name in the title and a canonical pointing at localhost. If a crawler happened to arrive inside that window ... ... monitoring only really start once things settle? And does your health check assert anything about the content of the response, a title, a canonical, an identifier that proves it came from your database, or does it only check the status

... customer sites, entirely different niches, served byte-identical pages during that window. Not similar, identical, down to the same byte count. The title tag carried a third brand's name and the canonical pointed at localhost. Status 200 throughout. Then the window closed and both were correct again. Your phrase covers it exactly. Nothing was red anywhere. And a monitor on a five minute interval has roughly a one in ten chance of even being awake ... ... honest conclusion from the available evidence would have been that it never happened. So the assertion I would add next to "assert the final URL, not the status

... reporting what we found, not a turnaround. The check itself is not clever. Fetch your ugliest URLs with Googlebot's user agent using curl, pass the Googlebot user agent string with the -A flag, and read the status code back with the write-out flag. Do not start with your homepage. It is the page most likely to be healthy, so it tells you the least. Run it against a paginated listing, a URL with a query string ... ... competing with each other instead of continuing to assume it. 13 posts, 78 pairs, similarity threshold 0.363, highest observed 0.300. The assumption was wrong. If you have ever run a Googlebot user agent fetch against your ugliest URLs, what status

... Working on a finance side AI tool, and one thing that surprised me: Stripe's invoice object doesn't have an "overdue" status at all. It only tells you "open" or "paid" overdue is something you have to derive yourself by checking if it's open and past its due date. If you build against the API assuming "overdue" is a real field, you'll confidently tell someone nothing is overdue when their business is full of unpaid invoices. Feels ... ... like a small thing, but it's the kind of gap that's easy to miss until it actually costs someone money. Made me a lot more paranoid about assuming any third party API's status

... every team I've been on, status colors get gamed before they get reported. "Green" often doesn't mean on track. It means "I don't want the conversation that comes with yellow." Nobody wants to be the one yellow in a room full of green, so people hold the line until they can't. So the update tells you how people feel about being judged that week, not where the work actually is. And when something finally flips ... ... slip anyway. Every individual read was technically defensible, and nobody wanted to be the first to say the quiet part. For people who run teams: has anything actually helped you find out a project is slipping before the status

... Product Hunt Here's what you get in Pulseboard also: Live Status Badge embed it on your website, docs, or SaaS Hive profile Public Status

... before my last two launches I wasted weeks building before checking who else was in the space. don t be me. here s the 30-min competitor check I do now, all free tools: 1. search PH archives (5 min) search your keywords on Product Hunt. sort by launch date. note how the top 5 positioned themselves the gaps in their taglines are your opening. 2. check who s actually alive (10 min) a launch from 2023 means nothing ... ... startup is dead. quick signals: are they hiring? shipped anything in the last 6 months? active changelog? I use exploreyc.com for this (free db of 8,600+ YC / a16z / PH startups with hiring status

... Link Handling Create and inspect filesystem links from the navigator. - Create link : create symbolic links, shortcuts, hard links, and junctions from the context menu (`Create link`); - Link columns : optional list columns for Kind, Links, Link target, and Link status (`Valid`, `Broken`, `Unknown`, `Unsupported`); - Open behavior : directory shortcuts and symlink folders navigate to their targets; other link targets open with the default app; Native Properties Window On Windows, open the native system Properties dialog for selected items from the context menu ... ... extraction options`, with auto-detect preferred and grouped regional encodings as fallbacks; Grid Sorting Grid layout now has its own sort controls in the navigator options menu. - Sort by : Name, Items, Size, Modified, Created, Tags, Kind, Links, and Link status

... easy to version. But for UI test cases, Markdown has a serious limitation: it does not give you a compact global view. In practice, we wanted to see many test cases at once: - case id - version - smoke flag - status - precondition - steps - expectation - comments - latest execution result That is why we chose XLSX. A spreadsheet can show dozens of test cases on one screen, supports filtering and sorting, and gives product, QA, and engineering a shared view without forcing everyone into ... ... worker. For UI testing, a remote headed browser is not just a convenience. It changes the debugging loop. Instead of asking "what did the script think happened?", you can ask "what did the user actually see?" ### Harness Code vs

... human at Microsoft to press approve. What's the longest you've been stuck on something you couldn't code your way out of? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @abdullah_javaid3  Only because I looked. The status flipped to failed in the dashboard, no reason attached, and no email ever arrived. It could have sat there another month and I'd have had no idea. Fixed cadence is a good call. Right now I check whenever it crosses ... ... Microsoft verifying my company is a real entity before they'll issue a code-signing cert. No Partner Center submission, no cert kit step, nothing runs on my machine. To your question: no report. The only artifact was the status

... Over the past few weeks, we've been focused on one goal: Make PulseBoard more than an uptime monitor. Build an AI reliability assistant that helps explain why systems fail. Here's what's new: Public Status Pages Share a live status

... ready workspace instead of just a place for icons and files. Instead of constantly opening folders, browsers, or apps to reach the same things every day, Boxvy lets you pin your most important content directly onto your desktop or status bar as widgets, bubbles, or quick-access icons. In practice, it works like this: You can create a menu bar shortcut that holds your most-used files, folders, commands, or websites. For example, instead of opening Finder and digging through ... ... folders, you just click one icon in your status

... Since launching ExploreYC, the #1 request in my inbox has been some version of: "This is great, but can I get the underlying data?" Founders wanted it for competitor research. Investors wanted it for sourcing. Job-seekers wanted to filter every company that's hiring. Data nerds just wanted to play. So today we're launching the YC Companies Database What it is: A single searchable, sortable table of every Y Combinator company with the columns that actually matter: Batch ... ... status

... overhead. The answer we landed on: build a system instead of hiring. Here is what we run today. Airtable is the content database and the trigger layer. Every piece of content lives as a row in one table. The status field drives everything. Make is the automation engine. Claude API handles generation. When a keyword is ready, one status

... first open-source knowledge management operating system with encryption and AI capabilities: https://getbrainstorm.online/ Comment from Dilla Anindita Purnawan(@dilleuh): PH page: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... What you're building: SPUN, an AI-native visa platform. Verified checklists, autofill, real status tracking instead of silence. 90+ countries, 12k+ applications, 99%+ approval. Who it's for: Travelers dealing with visa chaos, plus agents and OTAs processing visas at volume for their customers Hardest part right now: Going global beyond Indonesia, entering ... ... live on PH Aug 22, so this thread's been good practice at saying it in one paragraph.) Comment from Demetrio Koro(@aktivist): siOsi upload one selfie and it reads your 12-season color type, undertone, gold vs

... from being banned on LinkedIn, so I will not lose my account.] What are your five? Comment from Gil Levy(@gil_levy): For building Qualtix, my 5 are: 1. ChatGPT - product thinking, copy, SEO structure, and debugging direction 2. VS Code - daily development 3. Railway - deployment and backend hosting 4. Lemon Squeezy - payments and subscriptions 5. Loom - product walkthroughs and launch demos Comment from Adam Anhari(@adam_outbbo): claude, has speed the building of the product by 10x Comment from ... ... Justin Verlin(@justin_verlin): Claude Code VS

... Added global and China mirror source choices for Startkit installs, plus an optional shell PATH setup switch. - Reworked onboarding into a simpler step-by-step flow for coding agents, messaging apps, remote access, install, and final configuration. - Refreshed Runtime Status with compact summary cards, branded service icons, status

... built https://goamigo.co/ It connects to your existing stack (Jira, Asana, GitHub, Slack) and automates the parts that eat your week: - Auto-scheduling based on real team capacity - Risk prediction flags delays weeks before they happen - One-click status reports, audience-specific and board-ready - Dependency conflict detection across teams PMs using it save 6 10 hours/week on average. That's one extra project day, every week. Free 14-day trial, no credit card: https://goamigo.co/ Would love honest feedback ...

... doorbell. It rings the same whether it's a package or a fire. That's basically the gap Pushary fills, same hook idea you've already wired, but the event carries a real handoff (done vs blocked vs

... Smart Calendar: Includes monthly, weekly, daily, and agenda views. Events are color-coded by course, and there is an assignment deadline visualization. (Mobile calendar integration is currently being looked into). Assignment Tracking: Create and manage assignments with full status tracking (Pending, In-Progress, Completed, and Overdue) along with color-coded course associations. Analytics and Progress Tracking: Track your data per semester as well as total academic time. Includes course grade tracking, visual progress indicators, and performance trends over time. Built ... ... below, I have significantly decreased the costs of our current premium plans: Monthly: $2.99 / month Quarterly (Every 3 months): $6.99 (22% off compared to monthly) Yearly (Every 12 months): $24.99 (30% off compared to monthly 3.6 months free) The Status

... your disk. No accounts, no cloud sync, no telemetry. If Folio disappears tomorrow, your manuscript is still just a folder of `.md` files. What v0.1.9 brings: - Panel-visibility settings (hide/show inspector, plan, AI panels per project) - Split IDE-wide vs. book-scoped settings (theme/font global, status

... Arshi, solo founder of AllyStatus a status page platform that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Statuspage.io is $299/month. For a bootstrapped founder, that's a dealbreaker. Free tools are either ugly, lack subscriber notifications, or have no API. So I built my own. What AllyStatus gives you: Real-time incident reporting Subscriber notifications (email + webhooks) Custom domain & full branding API-first for automation Built on TimescaleDB for smarter analytics Pricing: $49/month (not $299) Launch offer: First ... ... customers get 50% off forever code FOUNDER50 Free 14-day trial, no credit card needed. Check it out https://allystatus.com I'd love your honest feedback. What features would you want in a status