Uptime and Cloud-Cost Monitor for Indie Hackers

1. 1

   Solve your own stack first

   Wire your own products in before anyone else's: HTTP checks, a ping URL for every cron job, and your cloud billing feed. Building for yourself keeps the scope honest and gives you a real screenshot for launch day.

2. 2

   Make the dead-job alert the hero

   Silent cron failures are the classic indie disaster: the backup that stopped running months ago, the digest email nobody noticed missing. A job that fails to check in triggers an alert; that one feature converts skeptics.

3. 3

   Treat cost like an incident

   A spend threshold crossed or a sudden daily jump pages the founder the same way downtime does. For a bootstrapper, a runaway bill is an outage of the wallet, and no enterprise tool frames it that way.

4. 4

   Price like the tools indies love

   A free tier covering one small project and paid plans from roughly $9 to $29 a month match how this audience buys. They will happily pay for sharpness; they will never sit through a sales call.

5. 5

   Launch where builders show their stacks

   Product Hunt, indie hacker forums, and build-in-public threads reward exactly this kind of tool. Publish your own uptime and cost dashboards publicly as both proof and content.

6. 6

   Stay small on purpose

   The temptation is to grow into a real observability platform and die against funded incumbents. The moat is being the tool that stays simple, cheap, and glanceable for people who refuse enterprise software.

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Best for: An indie hacker solving their own monitoring annoyance in public

Not for: Builders chasing enterprise contracts. The entire point is serving the crowd enterprise monitoring ignores, at prices that require volume and low support.