A fan of extremely simple, straight-forward web services? Then you probably know about amusing pet-projects like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, GoingToRain or IsTwitterDown (variations apply). Here’s another one for your bookmarking pleasure that won’t make you go back to the website every time to check the uptime.
NotifyMeWhenIt’sUp lets you enter any website or service suffering from downtime and sends you an e-mail notification as soon as it’s back up (and only when it was effectively down upon entering). Simple, clean, obvious, free, and as far as I can tell it works like a charm too.
The service was created by freelance web designer Sahil in his spare time.
Update: I just got an e-mail a couple of minutes after publishing from one Milov Patel claiming that the service is a complete rip-off of a website called DingIt’sUp.com that was scheduled for launch tomorrow (placeholder for now). The screenshots sure look alike, but I have no way of knowing who stole from whom, or if this is merely a coincidence.
Either way, up to you to check up and compare both services tomorrow if you’re interested.
Update 2: all is well on the playground now, Sahil and Milov are on good terms again. Good.
Simplicity is beautiful.
Firefox user simply run an “imacros” macro that checks the website every, say, 60s and let it beep when the site responds again. That is pratical for short downtimes (less than a workday) and has zero spam risk.
Thank You.
http://icantdeci.de ‘nother fun microsite
@leonard haha, icantdeci.de is funny!
Simple still cool
Excellent! This could be a wonderful mashup with notifixious (http://www.notifixio.us)
It would be great if hundreds of these simple services could be auto-chained by machines to solve more complex tasks.
Nice spam gateway. If he’s Web 2.0 he’ll even expose an API to set himself up simply as an open relay.
Agree, I would not use such a service with my “real” email.
Eh
Umm, it appears that Ding It’s Up is a linkfarm… may want to remove that link?
Aaah, the joys of technology! Unfortunately, this is what happens when companies don’t integrate software that will support all their traffic. It’s smart of these companies to try and fill a need, but it would be even better if people had their websites created by people who are on the cutting edge of technology and can help prevent this type of thing from happening.
I’m partial to:
http://hasthela...heworldyet.com/
Love the design of both websites, do update if you get to know who has ripped from whom
It really pains me to see a friend backstab me, but is sadly the case.
Ding It’s Up ripped my site, Notify Me When It’s Up.
dingitsup.com should be ripped off – what takes so long to make a site like this? should only take about 3 hours max.
About dingitsup.com, this isn’t a very hard thing to do, what’s the point in waiting to launch it. Put it online as soon as it’s done, i.e. a couple hours after you start, and leave it at that. Dumbasses.
see above comment.
I have made my own “check if it’s down” website with a bit more of a social angle to it:- http://www.downforyoutoo.com
You can see what other people have recently checked for, as there’s a list of recent searches on the front of the site.
Hey, TechCrunch and your commentors,
thanks for informing my about Ding It’s Up. My site did not rip off this site, but instead it was the other way around. I was sharing my idea with a friend of mine, but it turns out this “friend” just decided to completely copy the design and idea.
It’s a real pity. I’d like to clarify that I AM NOT a ripper, he is.
How about “Notify me when it’s down?” For mostly vague, unfathomable reasons, that would come in handier for me than “Notify me when it’s up” – although that’s a pretty good service, too.
wow, it’s a very cool tool. thanks.
This site is definitely saves lot of time when the site is up we can view the site from the email we got.
I see no benefit of this new initiative, but, yeah, little more enhancement aint hurting anyone.
Notifymewhenitsup has a much simpler interface, which is important when providing a simple solution which people do not want to spend much time figuring out.
It may not provide SMS updates, but I don’t see any need for this myself as if I have net access to access the site, then I can access my emails anyway.
Heh…another one: http://isitfucked.com
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nice script
Thanks….I got in here from Google..and I’m looking for something which can notify me when my website is down…
It would be great if hundreds of these simple services could be auto-chained by machines to solve more complex tasks.