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Show HN: I built a heartbeat and uptime monitoring for developers

Posted by ramgale on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:40PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN, been working on side projects for a while and kept running into the same problem: I needed something to tell me when my cron jobs stopped running or my app went down, but every tool I looked at was either expensive or crippled the free tier to the point of being useless.UptimeRobot's free tier checks every 5 minutes, Cronitor charges extra for status pages, BetterStack starts at...

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Re:Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:24PM (#47357327)

Describing your product as 'too cheap to meter' while simultaneously lobbying for a government bailout backstop is a level of cognitive dissonance that probably required a lot of expensive tokens to generate.

Re:I Let AI Redesign a Landing Page. It Beat Our Human-Designed Version on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:56AM (#47351522)

44% lift because the AI used a copywriting framework that's been in every marketing 101 textbook since the 90s. The real headline is 'experienced team forgot to do basic CRO.'

Re:Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:03AM (#47350002)

Seems completely unnecessary, there is probably 0 overlap between people who buy a cheap MacBook and people running DuckDB locally

Re:Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes a... on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:59AM (#47349953)

Looks good! RSS is underrated for this honestly. I'd rather check a feed when I want than get pinged at 2am because a sidebar changed.