Show HN: TermAlert – Receive a text when a terminal command finishes (opens in new tab)

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Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated! I'm relatively new to website development and put this together in a couple of days.

For an example usage, I used it to alert me when a slow program for finding prime numbers had finished.

raidan9y ago

Interesting concept, but an unauthenticated SMS gateway might not be a good idea. I hope there is throttling and other means of abuse prevention in place.

maxsunOP9y ago

Do you think a simple "stop sending me messages" would be enough for abuse prevention?

saghm9y ago

Is the source code for this available somewhere? I'm curious about how exactly you're sending the text messages, and I can't really tell anything from a quick glance at the binaries included in the zip.

maxsunOP9y ago

I'm using Twilio and a simple API I wrote for formatting the messages, both of which are connected to TermAlert.me.

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5 comments

maxsunOP9y ago

Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated! I'm relatively new to website development and put this together in a couple of days.

For an example usage, I used it to alert me when a slow program for finding prime numbers had finished.

raidan9y ago

Interesting concept, but an unauthenticated SMS gateway might not be a good idea. I hope there is throttling and other means of abuse prevention in place.

maxsunOP9y ago

Do you think a simple "stop sending me messages" would be enough for abuse prevention?

saghm9y ago

maxsunOP9y ago

I'm using Twilio and a simple API I wrote for formatting the messages, both of which are connected to TermAlert.me.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse