I got tired of $500/mo Datadog bills and needing 4 different tools just to know if my app was alive. So I built an alternative.

Hey everyone,

I’m the solo founder of ClockingPulse, and I’m a little terrified to be hitting publish today, but here we go.

Over the last year, I found myself dealing with a massive headache that I'm sure a lot of you have experienced: my observability stack was a total mess. I was using one tool to ping my uptime, another tool for cron jobs, logging into the AWS console directly (and praying) to check my billing, and dealing with PagerDuty for alerts.

It was fragmented, expensive, and stressful. I just wanted a single, clean dashboard that told me:

Is my site up?
Did my scheduled database backup run?
Is my AWS bill suddenly spiking because I left a NAT Gateway running?
When I couldn't find a lightweight, affordable tool that did all three cleanly, I spent the last few months building ClockingPulse (clockingpulse.com).

The Stack: I built it on Next.js and Supabase. The coolest part is the Incident Playbooks—if your site goes down, it doesn't just alert you, it instantly loads a markdown playbook for your team so they know exactly what commands to run to fix it.
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I’m launching the MVP today. Because this community knows SaaS and infrastructure better than anyone else, I would be incredibly grateful for your brutal, unfiltered feedback.

Does the UI look clean? Is the setup actually as easy as I think it is? (You should be able to get a monitor running on the free tier in about 60 seconds).

If you have a spare 5 minutes to poke around and tear it apart, it would mean the world to me.

Link: clockingpulse.com

Thanks so much!