HTTP API automated testing/monitoring SaaS - what do you think?
Hi
I've got an idea for a SaaS application where people could write tests for their HTTP APIs. Basically they would create a test consisting of HTTP requests, response assertions and could schedule those tests to run at some frequency. If a test fails customer would get a notification through a configured channel like email, Slack, PagerDuty etc. With the help of these tests people could make sure their API is working properly and also get notified if it goes down.
At the moment I am mostly concerned that I will have difficulty landing any clients because I have no experience selling and this seems like a difficult thing to sell.
I have this feeling that I'm missing something here. Any thoughts or feedback?
How would this be different than Postman Monitor?
https://www.getpostman.com/api-monitor
The offering would be similar. I don't have any additional/unique spin compared to this product. Thanks for your feedback.
I'd done a little more research and now it seems that this would be difficult to sell as probably only larger organisations would be interested in such product. They might not trust a one man operation with their business and would probably go with a more established product.
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Difference from Pingdom would be that tests would be ran by HTTP client and not a browser. It would be suitable for testing APIs where browser is unnecessary but not websites.
Thanks for the feedback I'll have to look around at other similar products as well.