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Marie Denis

Ping Man - Monitor your ping in your Mac menu bar

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Ping Man is a simple Mac menu bar app to monitor your ping.

👀 Always keep an eye on it, it's displayed on your menu bar.

⚡️ Check which apps consume the most network.

✏️ Change the URL you want to ping.

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Marie Denis
Maker
Hey PH 👋 I’m excited to show you our second Mac menu bar app. After IP Man (https://www.producthunt.com/post...)… here is Ping Man! 🌟 We are very close to call this a suite. Actually we already have an idea for the next app… 🤫 We really liked creating IP Man. We got the idea of Ping Man right after and were excited to launch a new Mac app. We decided to work on this less than a week ago. We never launched that quickly! So please be gentle 😄 Your feedback is highly appreciated. Ping Man is very easy to use: 👀 Always keep an eye on your ping displayed on your menu bar. ⚡️ Check which apps consume the most network. ✏️ Change the URL you want to ping.
Ryan Hoover
Love the name, Ping Man. Sounds like a super hero... with a very mundane superpower. 😂
Vincent Denise
Maker
@rrhoover aha you have no idea what other names we have in mind for our next products 😄
Marc Perel
This look like a great way to monitor bandwidth usage, I have a few questions! - Does it automatically show all apps that are currently using bandwidth? - What's the benefit of knowing when your ping hits rock bottom? 🥃😩 - Does Ping Man itself use any bandwidth that's worth mentioning?
Vincent Denise
Maker
@marcperel Hey Marc, thanks for your feedback. - It automatically shows the top 8 apps using the more bandwidth. Would you like to display more? - Since you see which apps consume the most network, you can close those you don’t need right now in order to get a better connection. Maybe your dropbox is actually downloading a huge file but it can wait. - The bandwidth consumption of a ping is marginal. We’re doing a ping every 5 sec; we’re thinking of adding a setting so you can change that interval.
Dinuka Jay
Got the notification and rushed over here to join the conversation! Super excited for this one. Will try it out :) Good luck!
Marie Denis
Maker
@dinuka_jayasuriya Hi Dinuka, thanks! 😁 We changed our mind on which product to work on but we launched one anyway 🚀
Vincent Denise
Maker
@dinuka_jayasuriya Thanks Dinuka!
Graeme
Great work, ipman was awesome, so now excited to check out pingman! Love the logo on the site too 👌🏽
Marie Denis
Maker
@graeme_fulton Thank you Grame! 😄 I love what @yesnoornext did for the logo and all the visuals.
Vincent Denise
Maker
@graeme_fulton Thanks Graeme, it means a lot to me 👨‍🎨
Francoo
autoping gives me status bar (easier on the eye) Do you have something like that ?
Francoo
here
Marie Denis
Maker
@francoolaami What do you mean? The ping is displayed on the menu bar (see the first screenshot). Do you have a link to this app please?
Francoo
@marie_dm_ i mean bars is more intuitive than numbers (check why pilots stil use needle watches) . No link but you can search. Installed it years ago
Marie Denis
Maker
@francoolaami Ok I get it now. An indicator like the wifi 📶
Francoo
Abadesi
Tell us more about the story behind Ping Man and how you built it togther @marie_dm_ @yesnoornext
Marie Denis
Maker
@yesnoornext @abadesi Hi Abadesi, you were faster than us! I was about to publish a message :)
Frankie Valentine
I'd love to try this product in exchange for a review on Product Hunt and the App Store.