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anom9999
Now someone needs to set up another Heroku app to find the question.
GuiA
Given the price of Heroku dynos, I'd rather not imagine the total bill :)
croddin
Well, I don’t know what I expected.
tylertreat
How do you maintain data consistency at scale?
Xeoncross
You can use HAProxy or the nginx echo module for this. You don't even need to bother creating an index file to be served.

    location / {
        echo "42";
    }
In fact, I wonder if I could use iptables to return a string...

Oh, even better - There's probably a jQuery plugin for this!

Syrup-tan
I'd like to see a Unikernel implementation, if we're going for lower level.

An FPGA with a full-blown TCP/IP stack would be cute, too.

drofmij
The real question is how many lines of code? and who can use less lines :D
fortytw2
I think this will usher in a new era of 42aaS startups - A breath of fresh air we all so desperately need in these dark times. Excellent idea!
rbosinger
This is the answer to everything!
stzup7
does it run in a Docker container?
adnanh
Needs more Angular...
nav1
Excellent idea! I will definitely use this in my next project. Do you have a business plan yet?
FLGMwt
Ah, this reminds me of a small service I wrote when our load balancing was being finicky to help the business side know if tech was aware of a problem.

http://doestechknowthesiteisdown.azurewebsites.net/

http://doestechknowthesiteisdown.azurewebsites.net/api/Yes/B...

drmjo
LOOLL... This made my day
GuiA
I'd like to use this for my enterprise service, but we have many non anglophone users. Is there any way to get a localized response?
billybofh
The choice of font is terrible...
chasing
$100M valuation by next Wednesday.
_almosnow
"Of course its not overvalued, do you know what the target market for 42 is? Literally everyone in the world has used or will use the number 42 by age 6. Imagine just getting 1% of those people to pay us $1/year. 70 million dollars/year and virtually no OpEx. And we are just getting started, we have a few other numbers planned for."
TeMPOraL
Do you plan to release it as open source in the event of getting acquihired?

On a more serious note, if SaaS APIs are function calls, this is an equivalent of a constant. Let's build a cloud programming language! Anyone wants to write cons, car, cdr, cond, quote and lambda SaaSes?