Hi HN,<p>In an attempt to make our team more aware of our key metrics like user signup, sales, amount sold, etc., we were planning on putting up a monitor on the wall.<p>Inspired by http://loggly.com/blog/2011/03/woot/,
we now want to play a loud sound when a sale is made. Preferably a cash register sound.<p>Is there some type of cheap mp3-wifi-enabled gadget that can poll a specific url and play a mp3 when a sale is made? Or a similarly effective method of notifying everyone?<p>Thank you.
Your engineers will most likely hate this. A loud sound is going to pull them out of flow and prevent them from getting any work done.<p>Someone on one of my former teams once rigged up the continuous build to a speaker that played the Star Trek red alert sound every time the build broke. It was a cute idea, but it was taken down after a day or two because it distracted far too many people.