Division notifier- Get a text when divisions are released

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

seems to work in Canada!

[forbes]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

seems to work in Canada!

Excellent, thanks for testing.

[dcarr]

Looks good. Might want to redirect port 80 to port 3000. Simple to do with iptables.

[forbes]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Looks good. Might want to redirect port 80 to port 3000. Simple to do with iptables.

Thanks. Port 80 is already in use by the guy who owns the server unfortunately. Is there any way around that?

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by forbes

Thanks. Port 80 is already in use by the guy who owns the server unfortunately. Is there any way around that?

Sure, with virtual hosts this is not a problem. Is this node.js? You can run alongside nginx or apache by setting up a virtualhost that proxies to node.js. Lots of info on Stack Overflow about this depending on your exact configuration.

[forbes]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Sure, with virtual hosts this is not a problem. Is this node.js? You can run alongside nginx or apache by setting up a virtualhost that proxies to node.js. Lots of info on Stack Overflow about this depending on your exact configuration.

Yes it is node.js. Thanks for the information, I'll look into this more tomorrow if I have time.

[jds2001]

Requiring a team number is sort of weird. My team won't be attending CMP this year (I'll be there volunteering though), so I just put in a bogus team number that will.

What usefulness is having the team number?

[forbes]

Originally Posted by jds2001

Requiring a team number is sort of weird. My team won't be attending CMP this year (I'll be there volunteering though), so I just put in a bogus team number that will.

What usefulness is having the team number?

In the text message it will tell you which division that team is in. Whether or not that's useful... I don't know.

Team numbers for teams that aren't registered are still accepted and will get a generic divisions are out message.

[forbes]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Looks good. Might want to redirect port 80 to port 3000. Simple to do with iptables.

It turns out at my university port 80 doesn't allow outside connections for some reason.

[forbes]

Fun stats: There are about 280 people signed up to be notified so far from 172 different teams.

[forbes]

Small update:

With almost 600 people requesting notifications, I was concerned about the amount of time it will take to send all the texts. It takes 1 second per text, which would mean the last people wouldn't be notified until ~10 minutes after I received all the divisions.

I went ahead and added a second phone number so that the notifications can be sent in ~5 minutes. This means you may receive the notification from a different phone number than was used to send your verification code.


Is ~5 minutes fast enough?

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by forbes

Small update:

With almost 600 people requesting notifications, I was concerned about the amount of time it will take to send all the texts. It takes 1 second per text, which would mean the last people wouldn't be notified until ~10 minutes after I received all the divisions.

I went ahead and added a second phone number so that the notifications can be sent in ~5 minutes. This means you may receive the notification from a different phone number than was used to send your verification code.


Is ~5 minutes fast enough?

you mean to tell me i have to wait 5 minutes? yeah i guess

[JB987]

The High Roller team motto is "It's not enough"... But certainly appreciated!

[dcarr]

Consider offering email as well? With something like SendGrid, you can probably push out all the emails nearly instantly. And if you ask users to provide their carrier, you can use the email-to-SMS gateways offered by most service providers (this seems like a fairly comprehensive list, but I'm sure offering just the major US options would be fine).

I'm guessing you're using Twilio for SMS, which unfortunately does have that rate limit for non-shortcode SMS. This could serve as a fallback for users who don't provide an email and/or don't use a cell carrier with a supported email to SMS gateway.

[The other Gabe]

I'm liking the random quote generator