Stepped away, came back, still building.

Took a couple of months away from Observare to deal with other things. Not giving up — just life.

Came back this week and the product is in better shape than I remembered. Everything I planned to build is built: uptime, SSL, port, cron heartbeat, a Linux agent for private network monitoring, process and Docker container checks, branded status pages, five alert channels, Stripe webhook logging. All bundled at £5/month.

I'm a solo dev, engineering manager by day, and I built this because I was the target customer. I wanted one tool that did everything I needed without paying three separate subscriptions or dealing with enterprise pricing.

The hard part now isn't building — it's getting people to try it.

If you're running anything in production and you're not monitoring it properly, or you're paying too much for tools that only do one thing, I'd genuinely love for you to try it. Registrations are open at observare.co.uk.

What's bringing people back to build-in-public threads after a break? Curious if others have had the same experience of stepping away and coming back fresher.