Checklane
Detect broken integrations before customers do
After weeks of building, rewriting the landing page, posting on Reddit and X, and talking to other founders, people are finally starting to try Checklane.
It's still very early, and I'm nowhere near product-market fit, but seeing real people create accounts and explore something you've built from scratch is a great feeling.
Checklane was born from a simple frustration:
Most monitoring tools tell you when your server is down.
I'm trying to solve a different problem: when your server is perfectly healthy, but your product isn't.
Things like:
Failed webhooks
Expired API keys
Broken OAuth flows
Third-party API outages
Scheduled jobs that silently stop running
If you've ever had one of those "everything was green, but customers were already affected" incidents, I'd genuinely love to hear your story.
Any feedback is hugely appreciated!
Small update on Checklane.
While reviewing user sessions, I noticed that asking people to create yet another password was adding unnecessary friction during signup.
This week I added:
Google sign-in
GitHub sign-in
Automatic workspace creation
Account linking by email
New users can now access the product with a single click.
Right now, my focus is shifting away from building features and toward validating the problem itself.
The question I'm trying to answer is whether SaaS teams care enough about monitoring integration failures before customers notice them.
Current status:
0 users
0 revenue
Still early, but I'm learning something new every week.
For founders and developers running SaaS products:
When trying a new tool, do you prefer OAuth (Google/GitHub) or a traditional email and password signup?
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.
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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.
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