Show HN: Verelo.com

[captaincrunch]

We were going to launch our new product into beta tomorrow (http://www.verelo.com - web monitoring) however, it just so happens to be the same day of the SOPA protests. We're going to black out in support. Feel free to take a peek before we do black out, we'd love feedback on our web design.

http://verelo.com

[SMrF]

The landing page is nice. Nice enough for me to click on the button to try it and then find out it's invite only. If you were going to launch tomorrow, why not let us try it today?

And of course I'm going to want to know how this is better/different than pingdom?

[tstegart]

The "our customers" quote is overlapping the text above it at the bottom of the page for me. Firefox 9.01 on Vista. Its fine on Chrome though.

Great design by the way. I would play up the alerts a bit more in your marketing copy. Companies would pay to immediately know their site has been defaced/hacked/down instead of waking up in the morning to a barrage of angry emails. Especially people with online stores. That's money in the bank right there.

[verelo]

Thanks for the feedback. We'll checkout that browser issue!

I think you're right about the notifications. One of the key features we're pushing for in the next month or two will be workflow associated with notifications. Right now we just notify the contact list on failure, but we know that a more practice solution is to notify a series of people up the chain of command based on a per-defined order. For us notifications are key, and we'll be spending a lot of time on making them perfect.

[tstegart]

Clickable link: http://www.verelo.com/

Good luck guys.

[bjplink]

If I had one tiny criticism about the site it's that the menu bar, once it detaches and scrolls with the user, is a bit hard to make out because of its transparent background.

[verelo]

Thanks for the feedback, i think this may be a browser issue as its intended to not have a transparent background. Would you mind sharing what browser you were viewing the site in?

[kkt262]

Very nice looking site. I use siteuptime right now though, how would you convince me to switch over?

[verelo]

Thanks for the feedback on the site.

Siteuptime is someone i personally used in another life. A few of the big reasons i'd encourage you to change are: - Time between checks (we go as low as 5 seconds, but default for demo accounts is 60 seconds). If i'm correct siteuptime do 2 minutes for a fee, but default to 5 minutes. - We'll give you phone, sms and email notifications - Our reporting for response time related data is very detailed, summarized to the hour and available per location we hit your site from (So you can easily tell what things look like from Brazil and Virginia by plotting them both) - We also do uptime reports, although our graphing is prettier (Soon to have screenshots on the new website) - You can have multiple users on one account, so you're not sharing passwords etc

There are a bunch of things we are not releasing right away, but will have very shortly which might also help out. - Public status page - Public API - DNS monitoring - Service specific monitors (We're going to add some monitors specifically for services like hadoop, mysql, mail, etc)

[captaincrunch]

You can see some of Verelo's updates here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Verelo/217341405001113

[bkyan]

I didn't see any pricing info on your site, although I do see a "Try it now for free" button. Does this mean it's free for the duration of the beta period?

[verelo]

Our pricing page is yet to come, but to answer the question:

1. Beta customers are free, and at the end of our beta will get a special deal for helping us out 2. We will always have a free tier, and these accounts will be free forever (but limited to two probes)

[AznHisoka]

How is this any better than other website monitors? Others have alerts, and regular checks too

[verelo]

To expand on this (now we have our own account - yay!) Verelo is entering the market with a basic set of features. Our one big advantage today is our ability to monitor your website at intervals as low as every 5 seconds.

We're going to bring out a series of other features in the next few months, however our beta launch was aimed at matching the major players and jumping ahead slightly by providing a more regular monitoring interval and the option for voice/phone based notifications.

We appreciate everyone's feedback!

[captaincrunch]

we go sub-minute as well as check page content, etc.

[rabidonrails]

It looks like dramatically is missing an a on the blackout page.

[verelo]

Yeah we noticed that too :-( we actually have to push a fixed up...its fix on our qa site. Dang...