The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) (oeis.org)
The Unfashionable Art of Learning Things (medium.com)
Show HN: One-line error alerts to Slack/Discord/Email
It’s a single line of code you can drop into your catch blocks, and it instantly sends error alerts where you and your team already work — Slack, Discord, or Email. No dashboards. No setup. Just real-time awareness.
*Why this might be useful:* - Existing tools (Sentry, Rollbar, etc.) are powerful but heavy to set up. - If you just want a lightweight way to know immediately when things break, this might help. - Works in seconds, not hours of configuration.
*How it works:* - Add `update.issue()` in your catch block. - It captures the error and ships it to your chosen channel. - That’s it.
Try it live here: [https://updateissuewebsite.vercel.app/](https://updateissuewebsite.vercel.app/)
I’d love your feedback: - Is the “one line” approach useful or too minimal? - What integrations (Telegram? PagerDuty? GitHub Issues?) would you want next? - Any blockers you see for using this in production?
Thanks for checking it out!
However, any legitimate deployment will also need a control center for such a thing: a dashboard where admin users can set policies, manage integrations, mute noisy errors, and track historical incidents.
Real-time alerts are great for awareness, but teams usually need context and some level of control to avoid alert fatigue.
You’ll also want some form of user management (RBAC), so teams can decide who gets which alerts, who can change policies, and who can silence/resolve issues. That’s usually the difference between a handy tool and something production-ready.
A lightweight "control panel" (even just a simple web UI) could bridge the gap between minimal drop-in usage and production readiness.
That’s where tools like Sentry or Rollbar come in handy. Not just for catching errors, but for giving teams dashboards, policy controls, and RBAC to manage alerts at scale. If you can capture some of that in a lightweight way, you’d have the best of both worlds.
Best Wishes...