great concept and something like this is definitely needed, just unable to get a good search that demonstrates the power. i would keep trying to make this better!

you also might want to check all the links in your footer. all the social links are broken and the blog links to some generic content.

great! would love to hear what you think about beeps.

til you can still easily buy continuously feedable paper for dot matrix printers on amazon - was wondering if that was a scarce resource for a project like this! kudos!

It’s pretty expensive though! I got the smallest box I could, 1000 sheets, from Staples for $30.

You can still buy new impact printers.

https://printronix.com/line-matrix-printers/

I've seen dot matrix still used at car dealerships so doesn't totally surprise me there'd still be plenty of industry uses

It’s great for printing on carbon copy duplicate/triplicate paper that needs to be signed one time on all copies.

I could see piping all syslog critial and above out to a .matrix printer that sits in a locked room as a cheap way to enforce a WORM log of events. With a continious sheet of paper you would only need to access it rarely, and essentially only to change the ribbon and replace the paper source.

I've seen dot matrix printers used in backrooms of airlines (which I have visited for reporting lost luggage, sometimes). This would mostly be smaller airlines (as the now defunct Berlin Air)

not too much, statusgator looks great as a fully-featured standalone product.

we use the data that we collect that generates the arewedownyet site as part of our beeps on-call platform -- check it out at beeps.co -- and we've found that having this set of vendors is really helpful for a certain set of engineers who build on the nextjs/react stack so we quickly put together this simple site.

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