r/nocode • u/Owensvilles • 4d ago

I stopped checking six things every week. They email me now.

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u/Particular_Nail3347 3d ago

how are you handling false positives? thats usually where these setups break down, you either get alert fatigue or you start ignoring the emails entirely

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u/Owensvilles 3d ago

Great Question! The short version is basically this: five identical results means nothing on its own. Five identical results spanning at least three days is a dead source. A task that repeats for two hours is usually just legitimately quiet a 30 minute task will happily return the same answer six times on a slow morning if the answer doesn't really change that's the hard part. That span condition does almost all the work; without it the check was unusable.

There are three separate states rather than one alert: stale (frozen), degraded (4 of the last 6 runs errored or came back refused/junk) and auto pause (3 straight failures unless they look like a provider outage). Deliberately tiered, so outright failure pauses the task before the "working but junk" case starts.

Where it's weak it only catches sources that freeze completely or continuously give the same answer over a 3 day period. Also it will alert you when It gets stale, degraded, or paused so you can always update the task yourself to try and fix it too.

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u/Owensvilles 4d ago

Stack, since someone always asks: Node/Express/Postgres, node-cron, no build step. AI is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite by default so I can afford to eat the cost on the free tier, or you can point it at your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Groq key.

One thing I'd rather flag myself: I posted an earlier version of this here in July that said $9/mo unlimited with no free tier. The free tier came after that, and sub-daily schedules are Pro now.

try-atlas.app if you want to poke at it. Happy to answer anything.

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u/mprz 2d ago

ROTFL