Keep
Infrastructure
alert management
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
4 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks useful and well suited to personal automation
From 2 comments
I'm looking at this and thinking, "you know what, this could be an awesome personal tool as well". This is definitely outside of the use cases described but I can definitely see…
nstart on HNThis genuinely seems useful. I’ll give it a shot. Nice!
folivore on HN
Objections
GitHub Actions association and YAML syntax are off-putting
From 3 comments
Maybe don’t call a reliability tool “GitHub Actions for X”, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence? Having used relatively high frequency GitHub Actions for alerts, I get more…
oefrha on HNSince this is 2023 and we are releasing things that solve X and Y problems in YML I do want to take the opportunity to question whether solving problem for X or Y in YML is…
SOLAR_FIELDS on HNThe complaint doesn’t seem to be about GitHub Actions, but YAML. I agree 100% percent, as soon as I saw that Keep is using YAML, I closed the tab. Nope. Nope. Nope. It’s like…
xctr94 on HN
README confusingly implies tight GitHub Actions integration
From 2 comments
IMO the readme docs make it seem confusingly like it's built-in/really well integrated with Actions, because the syntax is so similar. It takes some light digging to find it's…
OJFord on HNTry to read it as someone approaching the whole project for the first time, particularly the 'Workflows' section, it just doesn't really make sense, kind of implies there's…
OJFord on HN
Demo and docs lack narration and explanation
From 2 comments
Honestly it would be better to just describe what your tool is, rather than trying to describe it in relation to something else. People know what workflow automation is, and…
slillibri on HNI watched that video, but my thought was it would be better with narration or subtitles explaining what is going on.
slillibri on HN
Requests
Flap detection and alert deduplication
From 1 comment
In your demo, the message for disk space keeps repeating but we just need one alert instead of 100s , also good would be flap detection when something flaps up/down, and auto…
Jayakumark on HN
Typed SDK for defining workflows in general-purpose languages
From 2 comments
“Need[ing] something highly customized” is not some uncommon occurrence for your end users. It’s an inevitability for a large portion of them. Give me some well supported…
SOLAR_FIELDS on HNgot you, so you would imagine some typescript/python/golang sdk that let you define workflows?
shahargl on HN
Documentation of OAuth and multi-tenant auth
From 1 comment
Looks really interesting! Does the self-hosted version support OAuth or other authentication methods to manage users through an external identity provider?
CodeAlong on HN
Questions
How to add a new integration provider
From 1 comment
This looks great! I'm the maker of an alert-generating tool (OnlineOrNot), how would I go about adding an integration for Keep?
rozenmd on HN
How it compares to StackStorm
From 1 comment
How does that compare to similar existing tools like StackStorm?
perlgeek on HN
Alternatives named
StackStorm
From 1 comment
How does that compare to similar existing tools like StackStorm?
perlgeek on HN
n8n
From 1 comment
This is similar to something I saw before: https://n8n.io
gorenb on HN
Datadog Workflow Automation
From 1 comment