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loved the design + title :)
Haha thank you, I was thinking about the title because there are so many posts on HN :)

Still plenty of things I want to improve and develop.

Really, is it me so slow, or it really takes so much time! At first I thought that "hey, make a request to a site isn't that hard, is it?" but I don't like about 800 hours developing this...

You did. Any USP to shout about?
I'll be honest, more or less I have the same functions as others. Could't find something really unique.

Except, maybe, SIGNL4 integration.

In plans:

- Customize everything as much as I can. Like you'll decide which messages/texts to show in notifications and how the status pages should look

- Badges you can put on your site, like "I have 99.99% uptime". Haven't seen this

- Some folks asked for CSV reports of uptime/response time, will add it as well

- Performance monitoring & analysis

But yes, I know, it's in plans so right now not that much to shout about =\",

Congratulations, how is the response?
Not much :( Didn't get much attention, but anyways

Thank you! :)

Congrats again, saw you on PH first. I plan on using your service once we launch in a few weeks because Pingdom doesn't need more users. Would rather help someone starting out (as long as you are monitoring your own site ha!)
Please tell us more how and where you spent the 800 hours. What mistakes did you make, what would you do differently.

Otherwise, great looking front page!

I had a draft article for that, also I've posted an article about how therapy helped me to keep up.

But it didn't get much traction :(

However I'll post about it too, where and how I worked, even with photos!

Really like the website info/design, saw it posted somewhere a few days ago and was going to sign up. Only thing that stopped me (and maybe others?) was the price.

$10 for 2 URLs is quite high when comparing to other uptime monitoring services that have been around a lot longer, most likely would have signed up if the URLs were a bit higher or the price was a tad lower ($5-6).

Otherwise looks nice all around though. :-)

Yeah, I think this is what stops everyone. You know why I put this price? Because I saw a competitor (successful competitor) who has 30$ for 15 monitors.

I think I'd increase monitors number, since it's better to have less paying customers for higher price.

Indeed

Thank you!!