Show HN: Bananalert

[ollybee]

I would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.

[jerf]

Also,

    Step 1: Select Your Avocado's Color!

    ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green
    ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green     ☐ Avocado Green

would cause some user experience issues.

[SoftwareMaven]

I thought the same thing. I love avacodos, but I've given up purchasing them because I'm so bad at finding the millisecond they are ready to eat before they turn to mush.

[jksmith]

Well obviously that should be a backlog item to grow a user community by allowing users to upload modules.

[tiglionabbit]

I need a pear alert.

[bliti]

Nice! I went bananas when I saw the page. Started to monkey around with the settings. And I went baboom when I saw that it would text me.

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How do you plan to monetize this? This is clearly ripe for disrupting the fuits/supermarket economy. Like an Uber but for fruits.

I think you should email, tweet, instagram, like, share, deck and meet Paul Graham in order to get into Y combinator. This will be bigger than AirBnB.

Ryan from Product Hunt will be contacting you in shortly!

/ Filter off */

[t_fatus]

This could be of so much help when MarsOne guys stranded on Mars will need to know if they can eat their bananas! For once there will be some science in their project.

[anc84]

Add photo interpretation (heck, do it manually at first as MVP) and you might get quite a few "colorblind" users. Fruit ripeness is a huge problem for many and bananas are usually the example.

[chrissnell]

You need a 226262 short code. Text a photo of your banana to BANANA and we'll send you back a text when it's ready to eat!

[adrenalinerush6]

Good idea! except i feel like there might be some bananas that get sent in that weren't grown on a tree, jah feel?

[bigredtech]

Includes http://assets.absolutdrinks.com/api/addb-0.5.2.js

From Absolut Drinks in the source. And it's collecting phone numbers? ...

Not sure this is the purest of intentions. Not sure it's not though.

[Edit - Looks legit and unaffiliated :) ]

[JonnieCache]

What's missing here is that old animated gif of the dancing banana.

[gidan]

http://www.sherv.net/banana-emoticons.html

[artursapek]

What's your exit strategy?

[robotnoises]

Probably something along the lines of "I'll drive away from the building in my new Bugatti..."

[dcuthbertson]

To peel out, I'd say.

[stevelaz]

I'd pay 2 bananas for this app

[click170]

This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

[lucb1e]

Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally).

So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random site in XHR).

[jewel]

Here's a screenshot for those behind corporate firewalls:

http://i.imgur.com/pwSaDY4.png

[rplnt]

Having a domain name would help too.

[adrenalinerush6]

currently up on port 8080, best i could do at work

http://52.4.212.135:8080/

[a3r0]

It should be on port 4011

[aheller]

You should add email notifications too. I'm in Canada so my carrier isn't listed, but I want to know when to eat my bananas. Last time I was at the grocery store they only had extremely green bananas so now I'm playing the waiting game.

[ukandy]

Here I am developing a BLE ethylene monitoring device. Arg, your implementation is so simple. My kickstarter is doomed to failure.

[kingzain]

Missing the doctype. Some people who would like to use this site would be on some outdated browsers that would break without a doctype :(

[sparrish]

Add an 'upload a photo' option to automatically set the current banana color. And then I'll have a photo history of all the bananas I've ever eaten as well!

[volent]

Here is the github repo : https://github.com/singerbj/bananalert

[adrenalinerush6]

noooo dont look at the code its really crappyyyyy

[michaelsitver]

Absolutely brilliant. Now you just need to release this for every fruit. Appleapp. PineapplePulse. Instant billion dollar unicorn company.

[SimplyUseless]

Thinking of a drunk scenario, where I could end up setting bad alerts for me and eating a lot of green bananas; it would be wise to add a drunk check such as simple math sums.

[sbilstein]

Very Big Dada of you, wonderful. Thanks.

[adrenalinerush6]

If you choose a color of brown, but a preference of greener, you'll get the notification right away ;)

[dignick]

I won't be happy until the banana can wirelessly notify my Apple Watch that it is now ripe.

[nsxwolf]

I would not be surprised at all if the little Chaquita stickers will someday contain chemical sensors and a mote computer, and will do just that.

[blueblob]

You're missing green/brown which is what half of the bananas at my grocery store are.

[robogimp]

The hospital here does a roaring trade in distressed looking bananas with random grey skuff marks...

[mattdeboard]

Where's the kickstarter