MVP: Uptime monitoring SaaS
I'm working on a new monitoring tool that tests your product's features work, not just your landing page.
This is valuable and unique. Competitors such as Pingdom, UptimeRobot etc. monitor your homepage, which only proves the CDN is working!
Monitoring the homepage does not prove users can sign up, log in, get their data/reports, upgrade accounts to paid, etc.
This product lets customers deploy test code which drives a headless browser. The test code is run in datacenters worldwide, on repeat. Failures and issues are detected within seconds. If a failure happens, an oncall is paged via PagerDuty, who can then fix the problem.
This will be a monthly subscription with pricing dependent on how many tests a customer wishes to have and how often they want the tests to run.
The value prop is to give customers confidence their product is working, all the time, from all over the world.
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Have you launched the monitoring solution?
Not yet, is it something that'd interest you?
I've just created an MVP at https://uptime.do to see if it makes sense and I'm studying what's on the market.
Gotcha. How is it differentiated vs Pingdom, UptimeRobot etc.? Couldn’t see any info about that on the site.
Right now it monitors response time and whether a site is up or down. And it allows to have a status page. I am still testing and we have had some offers to buy the domain.
I suggest you spend a bit more time analyzing your competitors (there are 200+ of them).
They are not monitoring only the hompage, but every URL you enter.
And they do monitor more than only availability (including scenario-based transaction monitoring).
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have examples of these 200+ products & companies? Would be glad to know more.
Sure, look here:
The Updated List of 190+ Website Monitoring Services
And here:
200+ Website Monitoring Services that Shut Down
Wow, thanks for that, great resource. I wonder why those ones didn't make it. Interestingly I've got multiple YC startups who are very interested in the product and many of them seem to be struggling to find a solution for this in-depth monitoring problem - so it seems many of these competitors have marketing troubles!
Any idea what led to these other tools languishing / shutting down?
The market is very saturated. Making another one website monitoring tool for everyone is a straight path to failure.
In my opinion, the only way to go is to narrow your focus on one specific niche or a set of functions.
Good advice, cheers! Pretty sure I have a niche that will use it. I’ll make another post when it’s ready.