# Heartbeat

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Heartbeat and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended by a few people for simple team use and as an open always-on agent implementation; no criticism recorded.

## Why people recommend it

- Works for a small team (1 comments): "This works for my team, though it took some convincing to get everyone on board." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579278))
- Small working Python implementation (1 comments): "This is ~200 lines of Python. It runs. autoDream works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733992))
- Suggested for floating IP failover (1 comments): "use something like heartbeat to have a floating IP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900287))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Heartbeat", https://hackerapproved.com/p/heartbeat/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).