Show IH: Autoping - my first SaaS attempt, looking for feedback!
Hi everyone!
I've been working on this idea for several months now and it came because some websites I was managing were reported down from time to time. To make sure everything was fine I started coding this tool and thought it would be a good idea to sell it as a service.
The idea behind Autoping is very simple: Do not ever worry again about your sites' status, if there's anything wrong, Autoping will tell you immediately. These are it's key features:
- automated 24/7 HTTP monitoring (do ping each 2 minutes)
- instant alerts whenever any of your sites goes down (404, 503, timeout, ssl error, who knows!)
- detailed reports generation
- automated status reporting
I would really appreciate ANY advice or feedback on my landing page/application, as this is the first time I post about it.
Thanks!
@selknam how are things going now that a couple months have passed?
Hi! I've been working on some improvements over the app and landing's onboarding process, also made some cold emailing but still no success.
You could also provide packages to check health of specific framworks. For example a Symfony framework package which expose a endpoint /healtz, checking if the database is up, if all migrations have been played, if RabbitMQ is accessible, etc.
Sounds good! I initially wanted to monitor anything without the need to install stuff on servers, but this could be a great addon for more advanced monitoring.
My feedback is that this is an incredibly crowded market, and you will have a very hard time surviving. You should probably try to have some more specific value-add than your competitors.
Yes, there are several similar services out there. I think that might be good in a certain way. Could you please explain what you mean by 'have more specific value-add'? Thanks!
Basically, that you should provide some more specific value that your competitors do not. It looks, for instance, that pingdom offers all the functionality you offer. Why would a customer feel strongly enough about your service to use it instead of theirs?
Thanks for pointing it out, this is very valuable. I think I need to go deeper into this.
Looks nice, and is an useful service.
Have you looked to the competence? How do you plan to stand out?
Thank you! I've seen other very similar services, but most of them seems to be into bigger deals. I think targeting smaller businesses at lower costs might let me get some room there.