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• Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

  Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com Uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams. In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k , all their system... - Source: Hacker News / about 22 hours ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  OnlineOrNot.com - OnlineOrNot provides uptime monitoring for websites and APIs, monitoring for cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Also provides status pages. The first five checks with a 3-minute interval are free. The free tier sends alerts via Slack, Discord, and Email. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

  I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) in 3ish weeks. In short, I wrote about React from my own perspective for a year (despite thousands out there doing the same thing), made money, and got inspired to do the same thing with an uptime monitoring tool (200th alternative to pingdom when I released it). I turned a tool I used for convincing contracting clients to not cheap out... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

  I've been running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) since early 2021 now (almost three years). I recently wrote about how this year it grew twice as fast as I expected: https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off It all started because I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

  I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for cheapest tier WordPress hosting at the time, and didn't believe me when I said random 5 min blocks of downtime throughout the day were adding up. I built a dirt-simple form that takes a URL and sends a notification when the site goes down/up, with a... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

  I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com). I still work on it two hours per workday, before my day job starts, but it now supports uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and JavaScript apps, as well as cron job/scheduled task monitoring, and has built-in status pages. It's been funny working in a "red ocean" (as MBA-types call it), competitors will enter the market with such... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Show me your product with your competitors and differences

  My product: https://onlineornot.com/ My competitors: there are thousands, and yet we still solve the same problem in different ways. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

  Https://onlineornot.com/ It's been almost 2.5 years of work, it supports uptime monitoring for websites, APIs, JavaScript apps, cron job monitoring, has built-in status pages, still extremely far from "baked". - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Post Your Startup

  OnlineOrNot - https://onlineornot.com it's an uptime monitoring and status page service for websites, web apps, and APIs (and cron jobs/heartbeat monitoring soon) that I've built roughly two hours a time before my work day starts. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: How to monitoring, backup DB and medias using a VPS

  - Monitor the web server itself using an uptime checker like https://onlineornot.com (biased here, I founded it) - Something like Sentry or Logrocket for monitoring errors - use a cron job to backup your db, and monitor your cronjob actually runs with a heartbeat monitor. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2023)

  As always, OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - I recently integrated with a bunch of on-call schedule providers, so I'm going to spend a few weeks marketing that so my existing users find out about it. On top of that, looking at adding mutual TLS as a means of letting folks allow-list OnlineOrNot without punching a hole through their firewall. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses

  I built a service to check if websites, APIs and web apps are online, or not: https://onlineornot.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: How did you made your first $1 on internet?

  I built a SaaS that snapshot monitored GraphQL APIs, before anyone really used GraphQL in production. Ideally, you'd craft a maximal query that used as many nodes as possible, and it'd check every hour or so that the snapshot hadn't changed (I worked for a small company that couldn't keep their API stable, so I built a tool to alert me as a frontend dev) It turned out we were the only shop in Sydney with that... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

  I've been building OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) for two years now - there's definitely room for more players in the market :). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?

  First $100: I built a SaaS that monitored GraphQL APIs really well, before anyone really used GraphQL in production. I ended up shutting the project down after only having one customer for a year. I later went back and made it a website and API monitoring service (https://onlineornot.com), and it's doing significantly better now. First $1000: After building a few SaaS projects that made "meh" money, I monetized my... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Website monitoring app, focus on being affordable and easy to use.

  G'day, I run https://onlineornot.com as a solo project next to my day job. Source: 8 months ago

• Bootstrapping Atlassian: $10k In Credit Card Debt To $20M In Revenue In 5 years

  I have very little personal brand (I went from writing about React to around 900 subscribers to running an uptime monitoring SaaS - https://onlineornot.com), but am still managing to grow in a red-ocean market. The trick is: - being default-alive (the business will never go under, as I have a full time job) - continuous progress (2 hours a day, every workday) - learn everything you can about sales and marketing,... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Full Time

  I would probably call these integration tests. I came across this interesting tool for similar tests the other day. It lets you request websites or API’s and then search the return for a string. It’s more for checking uptime, so I dunno if it would be acceptable for this type of test, but it looks like a cool tool. https://onlineornot.com. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you make money on the side?

  I run a SaaS business (https://onlineornot.com), and run a blog about React (I sell an ebook with condensed information to teach folks useEffect in an afternoon) on just two hours per morning before my workday starts. I've been spending about two hours each morning on my own projects since 2017, it'll surprise you how much you can get done with constant effort. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/06

  I built OnlineOrNot - it's a set of uptime monitoring tools, with a hosted Status Page (there's also a CLI and an API). Source: 9 months ago

• Share your side projects, what are you building in AI?

  I use a bunch of if/else statements to detect if websites are offline, if that counts: https://onlineornot.com. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago