Pingzo
WhatsApp-first uptime monitoring & public status pages
Our API went down on a Saturday night. We had email alerts set up. Nobody saw it until a customer complained on Monday morning.
The embarrassing part was that everyone on our team was active on WhatsApp all weekend. We just never thought to monitor there.
I searched for a tool that sent alerts via WhatsApp natively. Everything I found either used grey-market methods that risk getting your number banned, or required complex API setups that took days to configure. So I built Pingzo.
It monitors your APIs and websites 24/7 and sends instant alerts through the Official WhatsApp Business API. No workarounds, no ban risk. You also get Slack, Discord, Telegram, MS Teams, and Webhook alerts if your team uses those. And every account gets a public status page and an embed widget out of the box.
We just launched. Currently free to start, no credit card needed.
What I have learned so far building this:
The WhatsApp angle resonates immediately with founders in India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Much less so with US founders who live in Slack. That geographic insight is now shaping everything from our content to our pricing.
Would love honest feedback from anyone who has dealt with the same problem. What does your current monitoring setup look like and what is the biggest pain point with it?
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The interesting insight here isn't WhatsApp itself—it's realizing that the "right" alert channel depends on where your users already live. Monitoring only works if it reaches people in the place they're most likely to notice immediately. That's a much stronger positioning than just adding another notification option.