Launched Checklane. 0 users, 0 revenue, 19 visitors
Today I officially launched Checklane.
Checklane is a monitoring tool for APIs, webhooks, integrations, and background jobs.
The idea came from repeatedly seeing the same kinds of SaaS failures: Stripe webhooks stop delivering events, API keys expire, OAuth permissions break, emails stop sending, and background jobs fail without anyone noticing. In many cases, the infrastructure itself appears healthy. The servers are online, dashboards look normal, and no alerts are triggered. The problem only becomes visible when customers run into it first.
That’s the problem I’m trying to solve.
Right now, the product is at a very early stage. The MVP is live, there are no users yet, no revenue, and the site has had 19 visitors so far. I’ve also listed it on AlternativeTo, Uneed, Microlaunch, and Indie Hackers.
My immediate goal is simple: get the first real user and find out whether this problem is painful enough for people to pay to solve.
I’ll keep sharing updates as I learn more and make progress.
One thing I'd be careful with:
The challenge may not be whether the problem is painful enough to pay for.
The harder decision could be which type of failure deserves to validate the product in the first place.
That sounds subtle, but it can quietly shape how the first users get interpreted.
I wouldn't make that call casually this early.