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Derek
You need to be in the Bay Area. You shouldn’t be in the Bay Area.
You need to work crazy hours. You shouldn’t work more than 4 days a week.
You need to raise as much money as you can. You shouldn’t raise money.
The topics above never seem to get old and I think it’s unfortunate.
Just run your business the way that feels right. The majority of your time during the week is spent working. Whether you’re working for yourself or for someone else, if you’re not working the way you want to, it won’t last.
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Derek
Scout, our server monitoring and application, is now available for public consumption.
Scout is for the 95% of us that either gave up on installing & maintaining monitoring applications or used the old fashion monitoring method – an email from a customer when your web application is down. I’m not calling you out, it’s simply that monitoring used to be more painful than
not monitoring. We think Scout changes that in a beautiful way.
Scout makes it easy to bring all of your data together – from the monitoring standbys (url monitoring, server load, memory usage, etc) to modern day analytics (the number of user accounts on your web application, unique visitors, inbound links, etc). It’s all done through an easy plugin system that you configure through our web interface – you never have to login to each of your servers and install or edit monitoring scripts. You’re not limited to the plugins we built – you can roll your own with a couple of elegant lines of Ruby code.
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Derek
We’ve used Scout for several months internally. Along with Colloquy, Google Docs, Basecamp, and Skitch, it’s one of the few apps I use every day.
We think this makes Scout a better service – we’re not watching Scout from a third-person perspective. However, sometimes things sneak through – the type of things that don’t bother you after using an application for months but can be hurdle to others when getting started.
There were 2 nagging issues that stood out in the Scout user experience. I’ll cover how I addressed the first one here.
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CBQ
The success of our Scout monitoring tool’s Beta has been amazing. We appreciate all the feedback we’ve received so far.
We’ve decided to spin-off a separate product based on Scout. It’s called Skraut. Just as Scout can monitor a server to know when it’s in trouble, Skraut can monitor your significant other, to know when you’re in trouble.
We hope you like it. Remember to signup for the Beta program, launching soon!
Skraut – Sneaky People Monitoring Software
